![]() You won’t have any trouble finding more information about Johnny Cash’s life, I want to help you remember your favorites of Johnny Cash’s songs. Johnny Cash’s songs haven’t been heard on mainstream country radio with any regularity since the mid to late 1980s. ![]() ![]() I guess they’re “too country.” That’s a long story. You won’t hear many – any? – of Johnny Cash’s song on country music radio to this day despite their genius and his status. ![]() These later “American Recordings,” so named for Rubin’s record label on which they were released, introduced Cash to new generations of fans, probed the depths of human feeling, stunned the music world for their for their originality and vulnerability (“Hurt”), and shamed country music radio for turning its back on the icon, a clear example of agism. His initial musical influences included gospel, Christian worship songs, early rock and roll and early country music, especially the Carter Family – of which his future wife June Carter was a member.Īs he aged, and his late recordings in the 1990s and early 2000s with rock music producer Rick Rubin (Beastie Boys, Run-D.M.C, Tom Petty, Slayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Cult) bear this out, he continued finding new influences including hard rock. Johnny Cash recorded and performed hundreds of songs.
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