It didn’t take Johnny Cash long to become an established country music artist. He begged Sun Records founder Sam Phillips for a chance to record, Phillips soon relented, and his first single included ...
Before that, he released “Cry! Cry! Cry!”/”Hey Porter” and “So Doggone Lonesome”/”Folsom Prison Blues.” Both singles saw moderate success on the country chart, landing at No. 14 and No. 4, ...
So I wrote a song called "Cry, Cry, Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record. GROSS: Well, why don't we hear "Cry, Cry, Cry," which was on the first single that Sun ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Next in our series of interviews on R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll, we have my 1997 interview with Johnny Cash, one of country music's most influential ...