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20 June 2008 3:30 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

The home of Johnny Cash's parents is up for sale on eBay, reports The Tennessean. Ray and Carrie Cash lived at the Tennessee ranch from 1969 until their deaths. Several members of the Cash family have resided in the property over the years, with Johnny and June Carter Cash staying there temporarily in 2003 while their home was being renovated. According to the current owner Floyd Robinson, (more)

By Simon Reynolds

19 June 2008 1:40 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Rapper Snoop Dogg is embracing country music in his new video for the single "My Medicine." A cowboy hat-wearing Dogg dedicates the YouTube video to the late Johnny Cash, calling him "a real American gangster." "His music touched people like myself, which you probably didn't know," Dogg explained at the Cmt Awards in April. The single features Willie Nelson, Dancing With the Stars champ Julianne Hough and country star Brad Paisley. It's considered a surprising turn from a man known mostly for gangsta rap. But the rapper said country music's appeal is universal. "Country music is the most underrated music in the world,

Michael Y. Park

17 June 2008 12:19 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

A collection of rare photographs featuring late country star Johnny Cash is to go on display for the first time at a London exhibition next month.

Johnny Cash: The Man In Black will include a number of iconic images from photographers like Danny Clinch, Paul Natkin, Andy Earl, the late Leigh Weiner and Marvin Koner, the former art director of Harper's Bazaar magazine.

The images document Cash's life from his early years in the music industry to the final days leading up to his death in September 2003, aged 71.

The exhibition will be launched at Proud Central gallery in London on 24 July, and will be open to the public from 25 July till 14 September.

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14 May 2008 4:02 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Actor Joaquin Phoenix is working on an album with Charlatans singer Tim Burgess, Billboard reports.

Phoenix was prompted to record an album after learning to play the guitar for his role as Johnny Cash in the 2005 film Walk The Line.

Los Angeles-based Burgess said: "Once he learned guitar, he found that he had quite a lot of demons inside himself that he wanted to expel through music."

The indie rocker added that he had been mixing the Lp with his manager Alan McGee, the former head of label Creation Records, but Phoenix's . . .

Simon Reynolds

12 May 2008 9:10 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Producer Rick Rubin made himself the go-to guy for late-career musical reinvention with the 1994 Johnny Cash album American Recordings, a spare, flash-free masterpiece that put Cash and his music front and center. Rubin never found another subject as rich as Cash, probably because there aren't any. But Neil Diamond's stark, Rubin-produced 2005 album 12 Songs, while not an American Recordings-caliber classic, was even more revealing than Cash's work with Rubin. Where Cash was a neglected master whose classic work had never been forgotten, Diamond's run of hit singles had been overshadowed by show-biz gaudiness and dreck like "Heartlight." With 12 Songs, Diamond delivered a defiant, yet surprisingly mellow set dedicated to the theme of not going gently into that good night. Home Before Dark provides more of the same. It's sure to please its predecessor's...

Keith Phipps

9 May 2008 1:07 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Joaquin Phoenix is planning to launch a music career after uncovering his singing talent playing Johnny Cash in biopic Walk The Line.

The 33-year-old star won a Grammy Award for his contribution to the 2005 film's soundtrack - and is now working on recording an album with U.K.-based rock band The Charlatans.

And The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess reveals the Oscar-nominee is a perfectionist, "Once he learned to play guitar he found that he had quite a lot of demons inside himself that he wanted to expel through music.

"All the tracks that me and (Charlatan's manager) Alan (McGee) worked with him on were brilliant. But he just kept scrapping everything or re-doing everything. I'm trying to get Alan to force him to put it out."

A release date has yet to be scheduled for the album.

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22 April 2008 4:02 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Michael Atkinson

Though it may seem unfair at first, let's pick up Joe Swanberg's "Hannah Takes the Stairs," heft it in our grips for a moment, and then use it to beat this thing called "mumblecore" to a pulp. Implicitly a kind of low-budge, ultra-spontaneous, all-hdv answer to the glossy fatuousness of current American film, mumblecore has a number of inherent problems (the least of which is its inherited moniker; using "-core" as a suffix in this way has no meaning). The fad's general strategy . naturally lit shaky-cam coverage of semi-inarticulate twentysomethings with bedhead speaking entirely in casual small talk and having or ruining relationships . is easy to peg as narcissistic and lazy, if you're not finely attuned to the genre's nonchalant sense of cool. But more than that, mumblecore movies strive for an interpersonal intimacy they never achieve, because intimacy requires skill, real acting and visual wisdom,

Michael Atkinson

15 April 2008 6:35 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Taylor Swift may have been the big winner at Monday night's Country Music Television Awards – but it was Snoop Dogg who stole the show. The rapper – wearing a black cowboy hat, black duster jacket and black zip-up ankle boots – was in high demand backstage. Swift grabbed him for photos, saying "I'm a huge fan!" At another point, he and Jason Aldean were spotted comparing cowboy boots. "Snoop said he liked my boots with the square toe and then he said I was a pimp," boasted Aldean. "That's got to be the ultimate compliment, when Snoop calls you a pimp.

Eileen Finan

8 articles from 2008