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Country legend Loretta Lynn has signed a five-album deal with Sony Legacy. The initial release will mark the 82-year-old singer-songwriter's first new album in 10 years. Though this deal has just been announced today, Nov. 6, Lynn reveals in an interview with Nashville Scene that she's been hard at work on her next project for quite some time, writing songs with country singer-songwriter Shawn Camp. -
Today in Country Music History - October 25
Over the past 32 years, a lot has happened in country music on October 25th. -
Willie Nelson's Braids Go For $37K at the Waylon Jennings Music Memorabilia Auction
How much would you pay for a lock of your favorite singer's hair? How about a set of braids? For one Willie Nelson fan, the answer was $37,000 at the Waylon Jennings music memorabilia auction. -
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. -
Nine Inch Nails, Neil Young and N.W.A. Redone with Cats: A List Inspired by Run The Jewels' 'Meow The Jewels'
Run The Jewels potential remix "Meow The Jewels" got us thinking: A) Cats are awesome (we're always thinking this) and B) what other albums would we like to see/hear after getting the cat treatment? -
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 Prison Albums Not by Johnny Cash: B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, The Sex Pistols and More
Despite not being Cash's best prison show by a long shot—that honor goes to his At Folsom Prison, which was recorded earlier but released later—the success of At San Quentin seemed to touch off a craze in releasing live albums recorded at penitentiaries. Here's a selection of eight albums that weren't released by Cash. -
8 'Ring of Fire' Covers Ranked: From Alan Jackson to Frank Zappa, From Blondie to Adam Lambert
Dragonforce brutalized Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" this week...Music Times is recovering by looking at eight other covers of the country classic. -
This Day In Music History - August 6th
On this day in music history, Garth Brooks, Peter Wolf and Johnny Cash all made the news. -
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. -
'Beasts of the Southern Wild,' eighth blackbird, Fleck & Washburn, Johnny Cash Galore Highlight Symphony Space's 2014-15 Season
Care of the always informative DotDotDot Music, color us très impressed with Symphony Space's upcoming 2014-15 offerings: Classicalite dears eighth blackbird, husband and wife virtuosi Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, wall-to-wall Johnny Cash, a live rendering of the score to 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' and even a brand new mini-series, itself. -
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.
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