Johnny Cash

June Carter Cash is among three artists invited to be inducted into the 2025 Country Music Hall of Fame alongside Tony Brown and Kenny Chesney.

Join Arkansas musicians Erin Enderlin, Cliff & Susan, Adam Hambrick, and Sofie Smithson at the Arkansas Roots Music Festival on April 12 at Johnny Cash's boyhood home.

Watch the unveiling of the Johnny Cash statue for the U.S. Emancipation Hall at the Capitol. It's one of two statues to represent Arkansas in Washington D.C.

Watch the unveiling of the Daisy Gatson Bates statue for the U.S. Statuary Hall at the Capitol. It's one of two statues to represent Arkansas in Washington D.C.

Arkansas Roots' Marty Scarbrough spoke to Dr. Adam Long, the executive director of the A-State Heritage Sites, ahead of a musical fundraiser at the Historic Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash Boyhood Home featuring an appearance by Joanne Cash Yates.

Each afternoon through Thursday, people can meet sculptor Kevin Kresse and see the eight-foot statue of Cash at UA Little Rock.

Benjamin Victor is working on a clay model of the civil rights leader this week at UA Little Rock. Statues of Bates and singer Johnny Cash will eventually represent Arkansas in the U.S. Capitol.

The public can watch work being done on the Bates statue, while approval has been given for the design of the Cash statue. Both will represent Arkansas in the U.S. Capitol.

Ahead of an expected decision Monday, five artists who want the honor of making statues of civil rights leader Daisy Bates and music legend Johnny Cash that will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol presented models Wednesday of what they envision their works would look like.

Arkansas is poised to change its sculptures in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Thursday (Nov. 12) the two statues in the Hall, those of U.M. Rose and James P. Clarke, will be replaced with civil rights icon Daisy Gatson Bates and hall-of-fame musician Johnny Cash.