While Johnny Cash most certainly made it famous, he actually did not write his career-defining hit song Ring of Fire.

Love songs are a familiar character in songwriting, but Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek frames his own love songs through his subject’s unfamiliarity. On Meek’s “Ring of Fire,” not to be confused with ...

Ninety-four years ago today, one of the most influential country stars of the 20th century was born in Arkansas.

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Johnny Cash was just weeks away from death and visibly frail when he took the stage for the final public performance of his lifetime on July 5, 2003, but he still had the defiant spirit that had ...