Top Country Albums originated as Hot Country Albums in the Jan. 11, 1964 issue of Billboard. Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire (The Best of Johnny Cash) headed the inaugural chart. The compilation was ...

"It was like a sitcom; we were the original 'Odd Couple,'" said Waylon Jennings of his former roommate and lifelong friend ...

More than 20 years after his death, there are treasures in the Johnny Cash vault that ... dry run for the American label albums with Rubin that were to come, as Cash considered his next moves ...

They would, finally, some 10 years later ... Spanning the decades with the Man in Black—59 albums-plus, across 63 discs… Johnny Cash was, and remains, the Mighty Oak of 20th-century popular ...

The label wanted Johnny Cash to keep coming with hits like “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line” from the year before. Cash, on the other hand, wanted to explore his concept albums and ...

Johnny Cash ... in record sales, Cash met the rock-rap producer Rick Rubin and he shelved the tracks. The duo went on to record four critically and commercially well-received albums, beginning ...