Country music singer Shane Smith puts his own spin on Johnny Cash's iconic hurt cover

Shane Smith posted a YouTube video covering "Hurt," the iconic song originally written by Nine Inch Nails and famously ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1954, a Future Country Music Legend Signed His First Record Deal and Got a New Name

Seventy-two years ago today, a country legend signed his first record deal after months of struggling to land an audition.
American Songwriter

3 Johnny Cash Songs That Don’t Reside Under the Country Music Umbrella

Johnny Cash didn’t just sing country music; he was country music. We need not explain why that is the case, but the bottom line is that Johnny Cash was and always will be the epitome of country music.
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Johnny Cash: Country’s rebel who captured the world

Thanks to his backing bands over the decades, Johnny developed an incredibly unique sound that combined multiple genres, including but not limited to country, gospel, folk, blues, rockabilly, and even ...
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POPNOTES | OPINION: Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell transformed country music — and helped a divided nation hear itself anew

In the cultural landscape of midcentury America, few transformations were as subtly seismic as the slow, sometimes reluctant, elevation of country music into the national consciousness. The genre, ...