On this day (August 23) in 1969, Johnny Cash reached the top of the Hot Country Songs chart with “A Boy Named Sue.” It spent ...

On May 10, 1999, celebrated children’s book author and underrated songwriter Shel Silverstein passed away at the age of 68. Few know that Silverstein wrote the comedic country song “A Boy Named Sue” ...

Back in 1969, a song about a boy with a girl's name and the father who walked out on his family captured the world's attention and climbed to the top of the Billboard charts. The song tells the story ...

On this day 57 years ago, Johnny Cash released one of his seminal tracks that became known as one of the greatest country songs of all time. The song earned a Grammy in 1970 and became Cash's ...

In my post about the movie Thirteen, I wrote about how motion picture screenwriters occasionally nail a psychological phenomenon. Many of them are way off base, of course, but on these rare occasions ...

On this day 57 years ago, Johnny Cash released one of his seminal tracks that became known as one of the greatest country songs of all time. A Boy Named Sue took Cash by surprise as he played it in ...