The country music staple was crowned Song of the Year at the 1970 CMA Awards.

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.

Johnny Cash recorded “Folsom Prison Blues” for Sun Records on July 30, 1955. The single was released that December. Cash first learned about Folsom State Prison from a 1951 film. He watched it while ...

Johnny Cash is up there with the greats of country music, and plenty of people in and out of country music fandom know his tunes very well. But if you’re not a fan of country music, you might have ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Next in our series of interviews on R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll, we have my 1997 interview with Johnny Cash, one of country music's most influential ...

Cash was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1997 about his career, from touring with Elvis to singing at prisons. He died in 2003.