Johnny Cash

Special Guest: Rosanne Cash

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen and singer Rosanne Cash talk about being an artist in the shadow of a famous and talented parent. Rosanne Cash is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and author. Over the last twenty years she’s released eleven albums which have earned her several #1 hits. Last year she came out with Rules of Travel, her […]

Rosanne Cash: Forty Shades of Green

Arts, Culture & Media

Special Guest: Rosanne Cash

Arts, Culture & Media

An Eerie Duet

Arts, Culture & Media

Why Richard Nixon Declared October Country Music Month

Arts, Culture & Media

Country Legend Merle Haggard, Leaving Now

Arts, Culture & Media

One of the founders of the Bakersfield sound was inspired to take up country music by seeing Johnny Cash perform while serving a stint in San Quentin Prison.

Matthew Barzun, America's ambassador to London, is also an ambassador of rock.

This US ambassador to Britain practices ‘vinyl diplomacy’

Culture

Matthew Barzun is a kind of ambassador of rock as well, bringing indie bands, his turntable and his rapidly swelling record collection to parties he hosts. The events mix diplomatic affairs and the best of Belle and Sebastian, the National or Dire Straits.

The World

‘I Have No Everything Here.’ From an overcrowded prison in Malawi, moving music

Music

Music producer Ian Brennan set up a small recording studio at the Zomba Maximum Security Prison in Malawi and had the male and female inmates sing their own songs. Many of the tunes tell their stories of prison life.

Beats headphones

‘Legacy artists’ are still waiting for respect from music streaming services — and a new law might offer it

Music

Performers and singers whose recordings pre-date a 1972 change to US copyright law receive no royalty payments when their works are streamed on today’s digital music platforms. Musicians, performing-rights organizations, and now even Congress, are working to rectify that.

New York exhibition documents Iraq War invasion through Marine’s diary

Global Politics

When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, individual soldiers, airmen and Marines led the way. A new exhibition in New York follows the invasion via the pages of a Marine’s diary, as well as articles and photos from journalists embedded with the same unit in the early days of the war.