• Country Music Hall of Fame Getting Temporary Rock Exhibit

    Rock 'n' roll and country have always shared a healthy relationship, and some of the best acts from both genres will share a museum, if only for a little while. "Billboard" reports that the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is getting a temporary rock exhibit in 2015 to pay tribute to the city's historical period in the 1960s and '70s when non-country acts migrated there to record. In March 2015, the "Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City" exhibit will be open for museum-goers.
  • Johnny Cash Honored In Folsom With $3.8 Million Pedestrian Overpass

    Johnny Cash's iconic album At Folsom Prison was released more than 45 years ago, but now the California city is honoring the late singer by naming a pedestrian overpass after him. Over the weekend, the first section of what will be The Johnny Cash Trail and Overpass was unveiled.
  • Back of The Billboards: 'Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden' by Johnny Cash

    Society always celebrates the records that top the Billboard 200 album chart. Back of The Billboards is a Music Times weekly segment that looks at the opposite end: the new record that finished closest to the back of the Billboard 200 for the previous week. We hope to give a fighting chance to the bands you haven't heard of.
  • 12 Legends Covering Songs By Other Legends [LISTEN]

    It's pretty common for an up-and-coming artist to cover a song by a legendary artist to get themselves going, but there have been many times where these covers of classic songs have come from other legendary artists. Here are 12 legendary artists who have covered other legendary artists.
  • Shirtless Justin Bieber Sings Johnny Cash's 'Ring Of Fire' On Instagram [WATCH]

    So who else forgot that Justin Bieber is a musician and not a professional troublemaker? On his Instagram account yesterday, Bieber posted a short clip of himself singing Johnny Cash's 1963 classic "Ring of Fire" with his friend, R&B singer Khalil, while accompanying himself on guitar. Naturally, both of them are shirtless.
  • 8 Albums Named After Their Cover Songs

    When you put a cover song on an album of otherwise original music, it's typically the sort of thing that's tucked away somewhere deep into the tracklisting and not really highlighted. However, these artists felt that their cover songs were so important to the fabric of their albums that they made them the title tracks. Here are eight albums named after their cover songs.
  • 8 Studio Albums That Feature A Live Track

    One of the primary objectives for a record producer is to make sure all of the songs on an album sound sonically consistent, but some artists choose to do away with this consistency by incorporating a live recording into the otherwise studio recorded album. Here are eight studio albums that feature a live track.
  • 8 Great Albums That Open With Cover Songs

    For performers who write their own songs, an album's opening track is pretty tricky. There's a lot of pressure to write an excellent song that catches the listener's attention and entices them to listen further, but some artists get around this by opening their albums with cover songs instead. Here are eight great albums that open with cover songs.
  • 8 Pairs Of Musicians You May Not Know Are Related

    There are plenty of well-known families throughout music history: Tim Buckley and his son Jeff Buckley, the Beach Boy's Wilson brothers, but some musicians are related in ways that are more unexpected or even obscured. Here are eight pairs of musicians that you may not know are related.
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