The album features some of Cash’s most-enduring original songs, including “Cry, Cry, Cry,” “I Walk the Line,” and “Folsom Prison Blues.” Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! was the first “long ...

Cash was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1997 about his career, from touring with Elvis to singing at prisons. He died in 2003.

Johnny Cash’s catalog is made up of nearly 50 years worth of songs, a collection of innumerable hits-turned-country standards. A fiery composer and a lyricist full of conviction, Cash was a force, and ...