His recording of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” for 2002’s American IV: The Man Comes Around — and its stark video — would come to symbolize his final days. He died the following year.

The 20 Best Songs From Johnny Cash’s American Recordings Series 30 years ago, Cash dropped the first installment of his career-resurrecting series on an unexpecting public.

American Recordings was somehow revelatory and obvious all at once. Yes, it was stunning to hear Cash, age 62 at the time of the album’s release in 1994, ...

When the woman doing the interview brought up the fact that Johnny had stirred up so much controversy, Waylon did not miss the chance to absolutely rip his friend, saying he looked like “a serial ...

There are 3,000 recordings, representing languages and songs of more than 40 Native American tribes, in the archives of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Some of them are over 100 ...

On April 26, 1994, Johnny Cash shocked the world of country music when he dropped American Recordings with the help of producer Rick Rubin. It was a risky and surprising move.

American IV: The Man Comes Around was Johnny Cash’s 67th studio album, and it was the last that Cash released during his lifetime. Maybe Cash knew that it would be his last, and maybe he didn ...

Considered one of the most fertile eras of American recording history, the 1920s and 1930s brought many now-legendary jazz, blues and gospel artists to the forefront, including Duke Ellington ...

A Johnny Cash album, 'Songwriter,' will bring to light 11 original songs he demo-ed but never released, with Marty Stuart among those completing it.

His first sessions for American Recordings with indie-rock producer Rick Rubin, which revived his standing and altered his public image, were still a few months up the road—and utterly unforeseen.