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.

After the success of American Recordings, a sequel would be released in 1996.That album, American II: Unchained is probably best known for Cash’s take on Geoff Mack’s “I’ve Been Everywhere ...

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 ...

April 6, 2011— -- The Library of Congress announced 25 significant American recordings today that will be preserved as part of the National Recording Registry.The list mixes music, like "Take ...

Johnny Cash's American VI: Ain't No Grave, featuring the final recordings the Man in Black ever made before his death in September 2003, will be released via American Recordings and Lost Highway ...

Tim Brooks is researching the earliest African-American recordings. CNN — Thomas Edison came up with a way to play back recorded sound in 1878.

On the cover of American Recordings, Johnny Cash‘s stunning 1994 comeback album, the Man in Black stands squarely between Sin and Redemption — literally, since that’s what he named the black ...

Johnny Cash recorded most of the tracks for the fifth and sixth installments of his American Recordings series between his wife June Carter Cash's death in May 2003 and his own just four months ...

Fahey's last project before he died in 2001 was American Primitiven Vol. 2, a collection of early 20th-century American recordings by artists so obscure that folk music archivists had overlooked them.

You can now listen to the oldest known American recording of a woman's voice that time and technology had left mute. The recording of the first stanza from the nursery rhyme Twinkle, Twinkle ...

One revelation in assembling “American Epic” was the evidence of just how good the early recording equipment was — and still is today. Bergh, an ethnomusicology student at UCLA from 1998 to ...

Tim Brooks is researching the earliest African-American recordings. CNN — Thomas Edison came up with a way to play back recorded sound in 1878.