There are 7 article(s) tagged Johnny Cash:

• September 2024

  • The Essential Memphis Library: Johnny Cash’s ‘Cry, Cry, Cry/Hey Porter!’

    Cash recorded his debut single, released in June 1955, at Sun Records.

    By Chris Herrington September 04, 2024

  • The Essential Memphis Library: ‘Walk the Line’

    The film stands as both a great Memphis story and a showcase for the city as a filmmaking location that can do more than play itself.

    By Chris Herrington September 04, 2024

• August 2022

  • New card game celebrates Memphis culture

    “You Can’t Say That: Memphis Mane Edition” is similar to Taboo. 

    By Jasmine McCraven August 10, 2022

• January 2022

  • Herrington: The culture we love can bind us, carry us through and take us home

    Wanda Fern Herrington wrote gospel songs. Robert Curtis collected country and folk records. The music they loved was part of who they were, and helped carry them through to the end. 

    By Chris Herrington January 04, 2022

• July 2019

  • Memphis has plenty of musical heroes

    Think of Aretha Franklin or Isaac Hayes in Soulsville, Willie Mitchell in Orange Mound and Dewey Phillips at the Hotel Chisca. A Rufus Thomas statue could go just about anywhere in town and Memphis Minnie and Furry Lewis sure would look good on Beale Street.

    By Mike McCarthy July 13, 2019

• March 2019

  • Elvis, Cash & doomed ‘Auto Row’ buildings: History may be honored

    Elvis bought Cadillacs at one building. Johnny Cash recruited his back-up band at the other. Both seem destined for demolition, but plans are being made to memorialize their ties to Memphis music history.

    By Tom Bailey March 22, 2019

• February 2019

  • Johnny Cash memorial adds incentives at Midtown apartment project

    Developers of an apartment complex on South Cooper in Cooper-Young received an extension on tax incentives for adding a public art element, a tribute to Johnny Cash, who played his first gig near the property. 

    By Michelle Corbet February 07, 2019