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Johnny Cash: Songwriter – posthumous patchwork is a pleasant surprise

(Mercury Nashville/UMe)A collection of songs recorded before the Man in Black’s 1990s Rick Rubin revival and reworked by his son has much to offer

The Guardian - UK

Music Review: Johnny Cash's ‘Songwriter,' a collection of unreleased songs from 1993, is a journey

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 1994’s “American Recordings.”

The Independent UK

"Eddie was doing these extended solos so Tony had to have a word with him about that": Geezer Butler remembers the ups and downs of Black Sabbath being upstaged by Van Halen, and his hopes for a final farewell show with Bill Ward

He also weighs in on what went wrong with the Rick Rubin-produced 13 album: "Tony was incredibly disappointed in him"

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‘He’d turned into a weird old grandpa’: how Johnny Cash resurrected his career – and became an icon

In the early 90s, the Man in Black was unsigned, uncool and barely out of addiction. Releasing lost songs from those years that rank among Cash’s best, his son and bandmates explain how he came back around

The Guardian - UK

"I can tell you one thing: it’s been one of the most exciting times of my life, because these songs are that good": Jane’s Addiction's original line-up returns to the stage as North American tour announced

Jane's Addiction original line up return live. Plus they announce North American tour

MusicRadar

"He seems kind of all over the place but this thing is spot on": Brendan O'Brien on his first encounter with John Frusciante and how they recorded the Under The Bridge intro

O'Brien engineered and mixed 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik and saw the secret to a great guitar tone first-hand

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“I’m not gonna hide myself just because I made an album with Rick Rubin,” says Beabadoobee, but she admits that there was one thing the producer made her do that “really helped my confidence as a musician”

“It really helped me look at the record in a much clearer light”

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“If you stand outside of the zeitgeist and try to get people gassed up on the guitar, it doesn’t really work. We should be taking the guitar to the public”: Marcus King on mental health, recovery, and the timeless style of vintage guitars

Mood Swings is the sound of Marcus King rebounding from dark days with a record of hope and truth. Produced by Rick Rubin, it's an early career masterpiece. He tells us all how it came together

Guitar World

Beabadoobee: ‘I don’t have time for death threats. I’ve got a mortgage to pay’

A support slot on Taylor Swift’s Eras tour and a Rick Rubin produced album has given the former TikTok-viral musician a new sense of self-confidence. Not even the internet trolls can stop her

The Guardian - UK

“I guess it’s about becoming a woman.” Beabadoobee announces Rick Rubin-produced new album This Is How Tomorrow Moves, shares single Take A Bite

Listen to Take A Bite, the first single from Beabadoobee's forthcoming This Is How Tomorrow Moves album

Louder

"Public Enemy gave the establishment something to fear, an intelligent, angry, politicised, uncompromising voice for disenfranchised black America." A beginner's guide to Def Jam Recordings in five essential albums

Def Jam is the most influential record label in hip-hip history. Here is your guide to its most significant releases

Louder

"Sometimes we entertain the idea of having a producer working with us… but in our band, we are each other’s Rick Rubin": Justice on keeping production in house for new album Hyperdrama

Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé lift the lid on their creative process in a new interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe

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“It was just playing with Johnny once again, and that’s what it was. That was the energy of the creation”: New Johnny Cash album of unreleased songs has been announced, first single Well Alright streaming now

Songwriter is out 28 June and features songs the Man In Black first tracked in '93, produced and restored by son John Carter Cash and David “Fergie” Ferguson in the company of an all-star band

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Jovial, randy and anything but dark: Johnny Cash’s surprise return single Well Alright reviewed

Rescued from Cash’s low ebb in the early 1990s, this fun, lightweight song is a long way from the moody recordings with Rick Rubin he soon turned towards

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Lost Johnny Cash songs from 1993 to be released as a new album

The country star’s son co-produces Songwriter, worked up from demos with a group of former bandmates and guests including Vince Gill and Dan Auerbach backing Cash’s vocals

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"I did a lot of research on Rick... I don't believe his audience is creative people": Jacob Collier calls Rick Rubin's creative manifesto "absolutely false"

Musical polymath takes issue with bearded superproducer

Metal Hammer

“When James comes in, there’s a presence”: Metallica producer explains what James Hetfield and Johnny Cash have in common

Hardwired… To Self-Destruct and 72 Seasons producer Greg Fidelman has said what trait Metallica’s frontman shares with country’s legendary man in black

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"CBS dumped us and we couldn’t get the record out for ages": Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King on the making of Slayer's Angel Of Death – and the fallout that followed

In 2011 Slayer's guitarists reflected on their classic and the blowback from its subject matter

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“That whole Christian thing, it’s so wrong. We were never Christian metal”: how doom pioneers Trouble overcame chaos, darkness and misunderstanding to make their 80s masterpiece The Skull

The story behind Chicago doom lords Trouble’s landmark 1985 album The Skull – the album which helped shape a generation

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“Probably one of the greatest Strats I’ve ever played… and I can see through it”: Watch Marcus King play a cardboard Stratocaster as he previews new track from Rick Rubin-produced album

The Marcus King Band's Cardboard Sessions prove that great tone can come from upcycled materials, and that King's forthcoming album Mood Swings will be a highlight of 2024

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"I have no technical ability, and I know nothing about music": Yet here are 5 Rick Rubin-produced songs you need to hear

From hip-hop to rock and pop, Rubin has done it all...

Evening Standard

Gossip's Beth Ditto: 'Fat people shouldn’t do drugs, they always die young’

Never the shrinking violet, Beth Ditto is back with both a bang and a new album with Gossip. She tells Craig McLean that while speaking out is vital, it’s also okay to say, who f***ing cares?

Louder

"Rick Rubin said, 'I'd like to have the original Foghat and record them', so we buried the hatchet": The story of Foghat, who turned up the blues, grew huge moustaches, and became superstars

A celebration of the long-standing appeal of slow ridin’ rock’n’rollers Foghat, who chose their name from some jumbled-up Scrabble letters

Guitar World

“We were auditioning for bass players, but most of the guys who came in were too good. One day I just said, ‘What if I play bass?’” Shavo Odadjian on why he switched from guitar to the bass

Shavo Odadjian holds down the low-end in System of a Down, America’s most uncategorisable band

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“We wrote it in about five minutes”: Interrogating the myth of the quickly-written hit song

We speak to industry luminaries and songwriting experts to investigate whether the popular idea that chart-topping song can be written in minutes holds any water…

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