WFMU's Beware of the Blog — Here's a little little seven inch flexidisc, titled "Singing Rice-Ipes", containing seven songs about all of the wonderful things you can make with rice, featuring Johnny Cash, among others, singing brief ditties in support of Riviana foods (here... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The two new releases that I can recommend this week are Heartless Bastards' Restless Ones and Mates of State's You're Going To Make It. Other albums I am anticipating include Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash's Dylan, Cash, and The... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — If things had worked out differently, Vince Matthews and Jim Casey’s 1972 album The Kingston Springs Suite might be heralded as an outlaw country standard, alongside conceptual records like Red Headed Stranger, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, and Bitt... more info

The Telegraph — John Prine is one of the leading modern songwriters, his work praised highly by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. Here, Martin Chilton picks 10 of his finest compositions. more info

Time — Four men in black conjure the spirit of the Man in Black more info

The Telegraph — In April, 59 years ago, Cash recorded Walk The Line. Here are 10 facts about the influential 'Man in Black' more info

Time — A new exhibition looks at how Dylan changed the Tennessee city's music scene more info

Stereogum — One of the redeeming qualities of community-annotated lyric site Genius is that they sometimes recruit cool artists and behind-the-scenes players to talk about songs that they worked on or that they really love. Case in point: Super producer Rick Rub... more info

Core News — “Mary Anne is joined by one of her favourite lyricists and MCs, Mike Skinner of the Streets, to talk about how to tell a really good story in song. He cites songwriters including Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and Shel Silverstein. With the Streets, Sk... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — There have been questions about this year's countdown...to answer the big one:  I did not do a poll this year.  Though I promised, I ran out of my time in my life, day job, and parenting duties.  So, this year, you're just going to have to... more info