An under-appreciated period of Johnny Cash ... being issued is the new greatest hits album Easy Rider: The Best of the Mercury Recordings. Collecting 24 cuts from Cash’s Mercury output ...

In 1993, Johnny Cash was at ... perhaps the greatest ever late-career creative rebirth: a series of raw, stark, powerful albums that recast Cash as a chronicler of human pain and mortality ...

All this is indicated via the following quotes from Johnny Cash himself, collated from various sources over the decades of his career, that shed some light on how he penned his greatest work.

On July 20, 1968, Johnny Cash hit No. 1 on ... Garth Brooks Releases His Debut Album 35 Years Ago: Garth Brooks Releases His Debut Album 32 Years Ago: Wynonna Judd Hits No. 1 With Debut Solo ...

Later that year, he used it as the title track for his greatest hits album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. The album consisted of his biggest hits released on Columbia Records between 1958 ...

A new album comprised of never-before-heard tracks written by Johnny Cash will be released on June 28, aptly titled "Songwriter." The country music icon died in 2003 at age 71 in Nashville.