LargeHeartedBoy — Four Johnny Cash greatest hits collections are in stores this week (The Greatest: Country Classics The Greatest: Duets, The Greatest: Gospel Songs, The Greatest: The Number Ones) along with the We Walk The Line: A Celebration Of The Music... more info

Guardian Music — Joy Orbison, LondonPeter O'Grady, the DJ and producer with arguably the dance world's best pseudonym, is someone having the best of both worlds. He's reassuringly underground (he says his influences include GG Allin and Martin Hannett) and he hasn't ... more info

Guardian Music — Arianne Phillips has been designing for the pop star for 15 years. Now she is helping her launch a shoe collectionFootwear, it seems, is close to the heart of the Ciccones: both Madonna and her brother Christopher announced shoe collections last week... more info

Guardian Music — The 'Queen of Country Music' in the postwar era, she sang It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk AngelsKitty Wells, who has died aged 92, made a place for the female country singer in the postwar era, opening doors through which would follow Loretta Lynn,... more info

Guardian Music — Nashville is the capital of country music, but where have all the cowboys gone? Emma John goes in search of authenticityI had been warned about Nashville. To any country-music lover, it's the ultimate place of pilgrimage: a star-making factory, respo... more info

Cross Rhythms — Two 1960 albums by Johnny Cash re-issued more info

ContactMusic — Johnny Cashs longtime sidekick Bill Miller is launching a shrine to the late country music legend after filling a former upholstery factory with memorabilia and keepsakes from the Man in Blacks life Millers Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville Tennessee w... more info

Guardian Music — Gram Parsons is long dead, but those with a taste for LA country might sense the return of the Grievous Angel in this singerHometown: Houston, Texas.The lineup: Robert Ellis (vocals, guitar), Geoffrey Muller (bass), Will van Horn (pedal steel guitar)... more info

411 Mania — Surely Johnny Cash was worth his name in gold, but is 50 Cent really worth 50 cents? Is Nickelback worth a nickel? Is Chamillionaire worth a chamillion dollars? In this edition of The Savage Animal Mikey MiGo judges the value of bands named after cur... more info

Guardian Music — It's all sex and violence in Borchestershire these days … and stampedes, of courseReally, you would hardly recognise the old place. Sex is rearing its head a bit in Ambridge, where previously people seemed to propogate by pollen. Or, considering th... more info