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It was 50 years ago that Loretta Lynn sang her way into America's heart with 'Honky Tonk Girl,' the first single by the soon-to-be country star. The now country music icon kicks off that 50th anniversary in a big way this weekend, when she receives a special GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award in an invitation-only ceremony in Los Angeles...

Following the death of June Carter Cash in May 2003, her grieving and ailing husband, Johnny Cash threw himself into recording as much as he was physically able to, in the few months before his own death in September that same year. Some of the songs recorded by the Man in Black during that time will likely appear on a Rick Rubin-produced album titled, 'American VI: Ain't No Grave,' according to N

Kris Kristofferson says he had to leave the room the first time he heard a recording of his song 'Sunday Morning Coming Down.' Not Johnny Cash's version, but actually Ray Stevens' -- who was the first person to record Kris' mournful story of a man pulling on his "cleanest dirty shirt" and heading out to greet Sunday and a few memories and regrets along the way...

Last year, George Jones joined the likes of Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Roy Acuff and Willie Nelson, as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors. The tribute ceremony included other artistic luminaries like Barbra Streisand, rockers Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend of The Who, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman...

It's been six years since the world bid a final goodbye to Johnny Cash. The Man in Black died Sept. 12, 2003, but his memory remains and his spirit has been particularly present in Music City and elsewhere this week. On Wednesday (Sept. 16), Faith Hill posted a message on her official website, recalling a special event she experienced related to the American icon more than a decade ago... Read Mor

On December 4, 1956, four young musicians who would change the course of music history convened at Sun Studios in Memphis. That once-in-a-lifetime moment is now headed to the Broadway stage. 'Million Dollar Quartet,' a musical directed by famed playwright and theater director Eric Schaeffer, is based on the legendary jam session of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins... Re

Johnny Cash is now a comic book hero. The late Man in Black's life will be depicted in the upcoming 'Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness' comic, due in September. The book, with illustrations in black and white, takes the reader from Johnny's early beginnings with Sun Records to the time just prior to his death...

"I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." It's one of the most recognizable song lyrics in popular music -- an always chilling moment from 'Folsom Prison Blues,' written and performed by Johnny Cash. Naturally, few recordings of the song have elicited more goosebumps than the live version on Cash's landmark 1968 album, 'At Folsom Prison...

Rolling Stone magazine has compiled their choices for the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, with a handful of country artists making the list . Ray Charles, who crossed genres, recorded several country hits, and influenced country singers like Travis Tritt, placed No...

'Busted' -- Johnny Cash (1963) The bottom lines: "The fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow/Me and my family gotta pack up and go/Where I'll make a living, the Lord only knows/But I'm busted." The message behind Cash's hit has renewed relevance today -- whether it's cotton or stocks, everybody suffers when the bottom falls out of the market...