When Johnny Cash Got His Moose is a new movie about how a 1961 Newfoundland moose hunt led to Johnny and June. Newly discovered photos and new interviews tell the remarkable story of the 1961 Canadian moose hunt and concert tour that put Johnny Cash with June Carter and took both to superstardom.
A new Johnny Cash live album, recorded in San Francisco in 1968 by famed taper and audio engineer Owsley Stanley, is set for release September 24th via the Owsley Stanley Foundation and Renew Records/BMG. Johnny Cash, At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24th, 1968 finds the country legend performing in the heart of Haight-Ashbury, and the performance has been teased with Cash’s rendition of “I’m Going to Memphis.”
We were very pleased to receive the album 'Cash Cover With Attitude' from the guys of 'Johnny Horsepower', the Cash tribute band from Copenhagen, Denmark. The band was formed in 2009 to pay tribute to the young and rebellious Johnny Cash. Notes on their album say 'The reason was and stilll is a profound passion for the '50s Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two.' You definitely get that experience when listening to the album.
A star-forming explosion of old, weird, cosmic American music
Only a handful of recordings can be called genuinely historical – and then only in retrospect: Robert Johnson at the Gunther Hotel in San Antonio (1936), The Beatles with George Martin at Abbey Road (1962) and, of course, Ralph Peer’s Bristol, Tennessee sessions of 1927 and ’28.
The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers were “discovered” at Peer’s temporary field studio, set up in a hat factory, but anyone listening to this 5-CD collection without the benefit of a cast list would not necessarily pick either out as the “best” (though, it has to be said, the consummate “blue yodeling” was already in place). There’s superbly accomplished playing from the very first track on the first CD, by Ernest V Stoneman and some of his many compadres.
A documentary featuring rare footage of Johnny Cash's gospel music performances is heading to Australia and New Zealand, thanks to a deal struck by US distributor Janson Media.
The Gospel Music of Johnny Cash: A Story of Faith & Redemption (1x48') has been licensed to Queensland-based distributor Heritage HM for pay-TV broadcast in Australia and New Zealand.
The documentary, produced by Gaither Television Productions and directed by Michael Merriman, features footage of vintage Cash performances from numerous Billy Graham Crusades as well as from the singer's popular ABC television show.
Janson Media has also sold three series and a 90-minute one-off educational programme about photography to the Living Channel in New Zealand.