On April 26, 1994, Johnny Cash shocked the world of country music when he dropped American Recordings with the help of producer Rick Rubin.

Though Phillips said, “Well, Johnny Cash doesn’t run this operation, I do, thank you very much,” before hanging up on the ...

More than 20 years after his death, there are treasures in the Johnny Cash vault that ... on the first album Rick Rubin produced for Cash, "American Recordings." In some ways, the material on ...