Pophistory: music, movies, history, and life.
Chimesfreedom tries to provide helpful links in posts, but sometimes after some time passes, we are notified that a link to an article or website disappears. When we get the notification, we see if there is a way to fix the link or find another article. About two weeks ago, we were notified that a … Continue reading “Cash Brothers Website Gone?: Long Live The Cash Brothers!”
Cash Brothers – Night Shift Guru {Night Shift Guru – The Cash Brothers} The Closings. In a previous post, Chimesfreedom wrote about the closing of a CD store and the losses from changes in technology. That post concluded by reminding us that at least we still have bookstores. But Borders just recently declared bankruptcy and … Continue reading “Book Stores Close: A Cash Brothers Song for Workers”
Chimesfreedom has written a few posts about being sad about the demise of rootsy musical group The Cash Brothers, confirmed by Andrew Cash‘s election to Parliament in Canada. But other brother Peter Cash is still making music and has been touring with his old band Skydiggers (a band he helped start) on their “Slow Burnin’ … Continue reading “Skydiggers (and the brothers Cash) Still “Ramblin’ On””
Chimesfreedom continues its periodic discussion of the best gospel songs by popular singers. In this Post, we consider recordings by Johnny Cash and The Byrds. “Spiritual,” Johnny Cash I am not sure why it has taken me until this far into our “Gospel Songs by Pop Stars” series to write about “Spiritual” because I … Continue reading “Best Gospel Songs by Pop Stars (Part 5): Cash & Byrds”
Check out this video for the 1977 broadcast of The Johnny Cash Christmas Show. The show features June Carter Cash, the Carter Family, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, the Statler Brothers, and “special guest star” Hee-Haw‘s Roy Clark. On the TV special, Cash recounts some of his past Christmases, including recalling his stint … Continue reading “The 1977 Johnny Cash Christmas Show”