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Johnny Cash was one of the most imposing and influential figures in post-World War II country music. With his deep, resonant baritone and spare, percussive guitar, he had a basic, distinctive sound. Cash didn't sound like Nashville, nor did he sound like honky tonk or rock & roll. He created his own subgenre, falling halfway between the blunt emotional honesty of folk, the rebelliousness of rock & roll, and the world weariness of country. Cash's career coincided with the birth of rock & roll, and his rebell... Read More

Hank Williams and Hank Snow

Amy Millan, Weeping Willows, KT Tunstall, Meat Puppets, Merle Haggard, Uncle Tupelo, Waylon Jennings, Limbeck, Social Distortion, Kris Kristofferson, Jeb Loy Nichols, The Mavericks, Johnny Horton, The Statler Brothers and C.W. McCall