When nothing seems to be going right, some people go left—Johnny Cash went hard left, veering off-course completely with a spiteful song his daughter, Rosanne Cash, called “painful.” Decades before ...

Q: The song “Hurt” was one of Johnny Cash’s last songs. What is the story behind this song? Was this song a memory to his past?

One year before Johnny Cash’s death, he recorded an unexpected song that served as an especially poignant farewell. In 2002, the music legend known as The Man in Black recorded a cover of the 1994 ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Johnny Cash historian Mark Stielper and Cash's son, John Carter Cash, on their book, Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics and the Man in Black's legacy as a songwriter.