So how did Cash craft songs that stood out quite so singularly from his peers. Why are we still talking about him all these years on? The real secret lay behind his attitude to the songwriting process ...

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

The No. 1 single helped make him a bigger star ... “I keep a close watch on this heart of mine.” Grant said Cash finished the song soon after.

But Carter Cash was an inspired performer when she was singing songs that didn't come from the Carter songbook, too. Her bubbly personality and deep affinity for storytelling always came through ...

The real secret lay behind his attitude to the songwriting process. Johnny was no one-man song factory. For Cash, a song had to mean something real to him, as a human being. All this is indicated ...