This unassuming building, formerly known as the Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, was once the home and creative nucleus of legendary producer and songwriter Cowboy Jack Clement.
It wasn’t just the music that intrigued us about these two men. It was the men themselves, and how they walked through the darkness of life, and turned it into light through music.
Of course, there was a little more going on than innocently picking flowers. But that’s how Johnny Cash loved to portray it at the time, before he was more open and honest about his substance abuse issues.
Major league baseball is officially back for 2025. And following the rest of American culture, country music is looming large when it comes to the songs the sluggers are choosing to walk out to.
Yes, Luke Combs is one of the largest names in popular country music. But from the very beginning, Combs has always proven to go deeper than the surface with his music.
June Carter is one of the most revered and recognizable characters in the history of country music. She was a daughter of country music’s first family, the mother to multiple country stars, and the wife of a country legend.
Though not technically the first country artist on the radio, nor the first on WSM, Bailey is generally regarded as having been the first Grand Ole Opry performer when George Hay introduced him.
Part of the story that’s rarely told is the cautionary tale portion. While Willie Nelson was puffing away on the roof of the White House, he had a cast on his foot. It happens to be that his weed consumption had something to do with it.
This is the story of the Christmas kidnapping and robbery of Johnny Cash and his family. It happened on Christmas Day 1982 at 6:00 pm, just as Johnny Cash, members of his family, and distinguished guests had sat down for Christmas dinner.
Did you know that there was a very distinct possibility that The Highwaymen might have never been called “The Highwaymen,” and that they might have never recorded the iconic song that gave them their name?
On Christmas, the new biopic film about Bob Dylan called ‘A Complete Unknown’ will open in theaters. And just like the real life story of Dylan, Johnny Cash will play an important role. 1964 is when Dylan and Cash first met.
Luke Bryan made an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast in an episode published on Wednesday (10-23), and participated in a little revisionist history about his career and how it careened into Bro-Country.
It’s impossible to compose a proper summation of the career of Kris Kristofferson. You can’t tie a nice little bow around it, because it’s so bursting and effusive, and touches so many sectors of American society.
The brother of Johnny Cash and acclaimed country music performer himself, Tommy Cash, has passed away. Born on April 5th, 1940, he was 84 years old. The news was confirmed by Bill Miller of the Johnny Cash Museum.
Johnny Cash could have just cast the song off as a dud and moved on. But Cash believed in the single so much, he took out a full page ad in Billboard that was published on August 22nd, 1964.
Whiskey Riff’s unscrupulous journalistic practices are disturbing, and they’re now being exacerbated by deciding that political coverage also needs to be part of the Whiskey Riff diet.
Ladies and gentlemen, by the power vested in me by the founding documents of Saving Country Music, I hereby decree that Friday, June 28th, 2024 is an official country music holiday, with all the rights and privileges thereof.
In many respects, the passing of a country artist is not where their career and legacy ends. It’s just the beginning. Near the end of their career and especially after their death is when the real work starts.
The 2nd half of 2024 promises to be a very big and very busy time when it comes to album releases in country and roots music. Below you can find a list of Saving Country Music’s top recommended albums.
Whenever you delve deep into the history of many of the greatest artists in music, there is often a person or a moment in time that goes on to define their very being and how their life and career unfolds.
Johnny Cash is 20 years gone, but we haven’t heard the last from the Man in Black just yet. Announced earlier this week, a cache of 11 demo tracks recorded in 1993 have been unearthed to be released as the album “Songwriter.”
Two separate couples with no affiliation whatsoever gave birth to two separate babies on the same day and in the same hospital, with one couple naming their new bundle of joy June Carter, and the other naming theirs Johnny Cash.
To add the mother of all insults to injury, for the video for his new song, Sam Hunt casts himself in the role of Johnny Cash from the iconic San Quentin prison performance from 1969. What hubris.
One of the most common misunderstandings when it comes to Black performers in country music is the legacy of Ray Charles. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2022, his legacy is regularly diminished.