It missed No. 1 on the charts but won the ultimate sad-song title as Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” remains a haunting classic.

To some fans, country music was meant to be played one way—unfiltered, unplugged, and entirely acoustic. This is a purist school of thought, and one that mainly applies to bluegrass and folk music.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Johnny Cash. Think of country music and it’s hard not to conjure up an image of the legendary ‘Man In Black’, original outlaw ...

The enduring classic found new life through one of country music's most legendary voices.

NEW YORK — In 1993, Johnny Cash was between record contracts — and just about to embark on an iconic collaboration with producer Rick Rubin that would span the last 10 years of his life, starting with ...