Johnny Cash didn’t just sing country music; he was country music. We need not explain why that is the case, but the bottom line is that Johnny Cash was and always will be the epitome of country music.

Cash was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1997 about his career, from touring with Elvis to singing at prisons. He died in 2003.

Post Malone and Ashley McBryde performed a tribute to Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash at the Grand Ole Opry's 100th anniversary celebration. Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, a legendary country ...

In the cultural landscape of midcentury America, few transformations were as subtly seismic as the slow, sometimes reluctant, elevation of country music into the national consciousness. The genre, ...

Johnny Cash was a force in the music world across different genres before his death in September 2003. Cash would not live without his wife for long: Nearly four months after June’s passing, Cash died ...

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 ...