Almost 30 years later, Rick Rubin used the photograph of Johnny Cash flipping the bird to send a message to Nashville and country radio. He took out a full-page ad in Billboard Magazine ...

It was during the sessions for Wildflowers, his second solo album, that Tom Petty suggested to producer and American Recordings label owner Rick Rubin that he should try to sign Johnny Cash.

From Johnny Cash and Black Sabbath to Lucinda Williams and Public Enemy, Rick Rubin has produced them all. But he claims that ...

Born to working class cotton farmers Kingsland, Arkansas, Cash’s obsession with music began at a young age. Following a four-year period serving for the US Army, Johnny threw himself headlong into the ...

Johnny Cash released the album American Recordings: he was 62 and had largely been written off by the music industry. The intense, no-frills, home-recorded album, produced by Rick Rubin ...

Rick Rubin has worn many hats, not all of them Stetsons, but as far as Neil Diamond is concerned, the producer is defined by the American Recordings series he made with Johnny Cash. Rubin’s ...