Shortly after enlisting in the U.S. Air Force in 1950, Johnny Cash met his first wife Vivian Liberto during basic training before being stationed in Germany where he bought his first guitar for five ...

Seventy years ago today, Johnny Cash walked into the Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and recorded what would be his first ...

It didn’t take Johnny Cash long to become an established country music artist. He begged Sun Records founder Sam Phillips for a chance to record, Phillips soon relented, and his first single included ...

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 ...

Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! is the Man in Black’s debut LP for Sun Records, released in 1957. It set the template for Cash’s nearly 50-year career and changed country (and if we’re ...

So I wrote a song called "Cry, Cry, Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record. GROSS: Well, why don't we hear "Cry, Cry, Cry," which was on the first single that Sun ...