This is the story of Johnny Cash's iconic cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails. By the early ‘90s, Johnny Cash had fallen from grace. He’d spent much of the 1980s increasingly marginalized, chasing ...

A cover of Hurt by Johnny Cash has gone down in history as one of the best covers of all time. But listeners are only just realising a heartbreaking detail which serves as the song's emotional core, ...

Though some songs originate with certain artists, they are really owned by different ones. For example, “I Will Always Love You” was written by Dolly Parton but it’s become a Whitney Houston song.

Nov. 5 will mark 20 years since "The Man In Black" Johnny Cash released American IV: The Man Comes Around in 2002, one of the final installments of his famed American Recordings series and the last ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. No playlist of transformative cover songs would be complete without this ...

Johnny Cash might be a commercial symbol of country music, but he is also a symbol of pure pathos in the world of songwriting. Both through his original works and covers, Cash brought a level of ...