Though Trent Reznor may have penned "Hurt," the final song on Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album, The Downward Spiral, Johnny Cash sent it into the stratosphere. Bringing his hardened country sound to ...

"Hurt wasn't one he understood at ... I see what it is - it's like folk song lyrics." Before getting Cash to record his cover, Rubin contacted Trent Reznor to ask how he would feel about this ...

From the moment Cash's cracked leather voice begins, the listener is drawn into a world of pain, regret and reflection. The sparse instrumentation-a signature acoustic guitar-lends an air of intimacy, ...

And one of the ones that seemed to have resonated with people after we did it was ‘Hurt ... Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor was also as skeptical of the ideas as Johnny Cash was.

The answer is “Hurt.” If you can find another album closer that defines the careers and legacies of two songwriters as gifted as Trent Reznor and Johnny Cash, we are all ears. Depressingly ...