Johnny Cash

Starring Johnny Cash, Tanya Tucker, Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, and a host of other hell-raisers

Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Albert Ayler, the Velvet Underground, Eric Dolphy, Dusty Springfield, and the other artists who changed music forever

Diamonds have long been one of music's most potent images. This playlist examines the diverse ways that songwriters have put them to use in their lyrics through track-by-track commentary. Produced by Pitchfork for Real is a Diamond.

For her book, It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music, longtime Pitchfork staffer Amanda Petrusich hoped to nudge our collective notions of "Americana" by looking at the ways in which Americana music-- rural, indigent, acoustic music-- has evolved and endured, and how those changes may or may not reflect a new American landscape.

Emmylou Harris has kept up an incredible track record for more than 30 years, since the death of Gram Parsons dissolved their historic partnership and Harris set out on a solo career, stretching all the way up to her latest, All I Intended to Be. Of course, with that voice it's hard to imagine Harris ever going wrong.

British psych-jazz legend on working with Brian Eno and Paul Weller, the long journey from Dionne Warwick to Johnny Cash, and how he considers himself a "sit-down comedian."

We take a final look at our favorite songs of the 1960s, listing our individual top 10s and musing on a handful of tracks our writers believe should have made the final cut.

From James Brown to Etta James, Jimi Hendrix to Patsy Cline, here are the tracks that lit up the decade

As the second set of the inspired Directors Label Series is unveiled, we take a critical look at all seven volumes and the art of music video itself.

On The Best Party Ever, the debut by English duo The Boy Least Likely To, composer/multi-instrumentalist Pete Hobbs, 27 ...

Will Oldham is a mysterious guy. Over the past ten years, he's recorded several albums under various guises-- most ...