“Songwriter” — Kingsland native Johnny Cash’s fifth posthumous album — features reworked material that the Man in Black left unfinished from an early ’90s session.
Colin Edward Woodward
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‘I’ve Seen a Lot of Highway’: On Billy Don Burns’ new album
“I’ve Seen a Lot of Highway,” the new album by Arkansas native Billy Don Burns, presents the road as both harsh and liberating, a place where someone can bottom out or find salvation — all in the same night.
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The Ballad of Billy Don Burns
Arkansas native Billy Don Burns has been playing music professionally for over 50 years. A survivor of six marriages, getting stabbed, a stint in prison and substance abuse, he’s had plenty to write about. At 73, he shows no signs of slowing down.
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The Arkansas prison scandal
In the 1960s, Tom Murton attempted to reform Cummins prison farm, but lost his job after unearthing three skeletons on the grounds.
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When Johnny Cash campaigned for Winthrop Rockefeller
The rebel and the Republican.