Browsing: Johnny Cash

This is part thirteen of our series of articles about the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame’s (FARHOF) inaugural class of inductees.

If you are drawn to the highway, there is no other choice. It is just a natural fact because, as Tom Cochrane tells us, “Life Is A Highway.”

Today we offer you 10 of our favorite songs about food, and an additional one about giving thanks. Happy Thanksgiving y’all. Now, let’s eat!

“It’s the old saying about rich men making war and poor men having to fight them.” – John Fogerty

Albums like this one produced by people who lived this music are to be treasured

In never-released collision of musical worlds, Johnny Cash covers Bob Dylan in recording from Grateful Dead’s sound wizard Owsley “Bear” Stanley

Since its release, ‘At Folsom Prison’ has been acknowledged as one of the greatest albums of all time

Happy birthday, Billy Joe Shaver (August 16, 1939 – October 28, 2020)

“American music is a patchwork of cultural legacies of histories. The music reflected it. I realized that I need to thematically unify all this gorgeous music that is American music.”

“I hope the listener will step inside the canoe and float down the Missouri River of their mind.  I hope they will hear the gospel of the country, and taste the liquor in the speakeasies.  I hope they will feel the freedom in the jazz of the cities, heed the call to morality in the spirituality of a day’s hard work, and the call to the Great Beyond from the Appalachians.” – Paula Cole