AP - Diabetes had cost Johnny Cash much of his sight, and he needed a wheelchair. Losing his wife June was crushing. Yet, in retrospect, producer Rick Rubin wasn't surprised to hear Cash's plea the day after June died in May 2003.

Country legend Johnny Cash has received three posthumous nominations for this year's Mojo awards.

Reuters - "Like the 309," the last song written by Johnny Cash before his death, will be included on "American V: A Hundred Highways."

AP - On the roof of a ruined hotel-turned-observa­tion post nicknamed "the Ramadi Inn," two U.S. snipers listen to Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" on an iPod and watch a firefight through holes knocked out of a penthouse wall.

Playbill - Ring of Fire, the musical that gathered Johnny Cash songs for a plotless evening of music and dance, plays its final performance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre 2 PM April 30.

Reuters - The Oscar-winning Johnny Cash movie "Walk the Line," and TV shows "Without a Trace" and "Saturday Night Live" were among the winners at the 10th annual Prism Awards, which recognize accurate depictions of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and addiction in entertainment content.

Playbill - Ring of Fire, the musical that gathered Johnny Cash songs for a plotless evening of music and dance, will play its final performance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre 2 PM April 30.

Reuters - Two new titles by top contemporary country acts, Rascal Flatts' "Me and My Gang" and Toby Keith's "White Trash With Money," slugged it out for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week. But elsewhere on the chart, Johnny Cash continued to abide.

AP - Hank Williams Jr. will receive Country Music Television's Johnny Cash Visionary Award during the 2006 CMT Music Awards show next month, the cable network announced Wednesday.

E! Online - Fans were ready to make American Idol frontrunner Chris Daughtry walk the plank after hearing him sing an oddly familiar-sounding rendition of Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" Tuesday night.

E! Online - Fans were ready to make American Idol frontrunner Chris Daughtry walk the plank after hearing him sing an oddly familiar-sounding rendition of Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" Tuesday night.

Reuters - Actors Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon probably never expected to star in a music video when they signed on for the film "Walk the Line," but their version of "Jackson" has netted them a CMT Music Award nomination for collaborative video of the year. The pair portray Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in the film and the video, which is taken from the movie.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Nashville, TN (AHN) – What was the man in black like before he became a star? A book about Johnny Cash’s early years and his first marriage will be released early next year. Vivian Liberto Distin, who died last year, wrote, “I Walked the...

AP - The first Mrs. Johnny Cash had a line to walk, too, and before she died last year she told about it in a book that will be published early next year.

Playbill - Ring of Fire, the new American musical that draws from the catalog of songs written and made famous by Johnny Cash, opens on Broadway March 12, boasting not a strict biography of Cash, but the essence of an American experience.

Reuters - The Johnny Cash movie "Walk the Line" may have returned "the man in black" to the limelight, but a new Broadway musical based on his songs received a sharp knockdown by critics on Monday.

Reuters - Just when "Jersey Boys" came along to revive the fortunes of the jukebox musical, this musical tribute to Johnny Cash has arrived to squash them again.

Reuters - The Oscar-winning Johnny Cash drama "Walk the Line" took the top spot on the DVD sales and rental charts for the week ending March 5, easily beating a slate of high-profile competitors, according to data issued Wednesday.