“Some people are impressionists. These guys leave an impression”.  Says Bill Miller, owner of Johnny Cash.com about Cash’d Out, a San Diego based band that channels Johnny Cash in about as close a manner to the real thing as it gets.  

After thirteen years, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles on the road and winning over as many fans, fans who still continually tell the group how grateful they are that Cash’d Out so righteously carries the torch of the Johnny Cash Show.

Besides music critics anointing Cash’d Out as "the next best thing to Johnny Cash”, their highlights have been many:

W.S. Holland, Johnny Cash’s longtime drummer, has sat in with Cash’d Out;  front man, Douglas Benson, has played Johnny’s cherry sunburst Guild guitar (courtesy of Mr. Miller);  “Cindy Cash came to a show and was moved to give me a glass locket that was her father’s,” explains Benson;  Longtime Johnny Cash manager Lou Robin has also been to several Cash’d Out shows and claimed that if he closed his eyes it was as if “going back in time.”;  And most recently, an unforgettable evening performing the music of Johnny Cash with the San Diego Symphony as a special event for their Summer Pops Series.

The band’s live shows respectfully reference the late, great Man in Black's Sun Records and early Columbia era sound, combined with the energy of the classic multi-platinum live recordings from Folsom Prison and San Quentin. The group's genuine love (and authentic recreation) of Johnny Cash’s music and its universal appeal fans of all ages and of virtually all musical genres makes each Cash’d Out show a must-see event.

Or as Bill Miller says, “Some people are impressionists. These guys leave an impression.”

BUZZ CAMPBELL is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is the founding member of the storied '90's rockabilly group, Hot Rod Lincoln, and current guitarist for the Stray Cat Lee Rocker. In 2000, Buzz was asked to join Shanana, 1950's revival group whose legacy includes performing at Woodstock, a cameo in the movie Grease, and their own TV show from 1975-1981. Buzz left Shanana in 2004, after Lee Rocker, legendary bass player of the Stray Cats, asked him to join his group. Buzz has been touring the world with Lee ever since and is on all of Lee's releases since 2004.

During recent breaks from touring, Buzz would spend his free time surfing with his long time friend and bass player Joe Wizzy. They had collaborated on projects before, and talked often in the water about their mutual love of vintage California surfing, the Bakersfield sound, twangy guitars, long boards, Buck Owens, Gene Vincent, Roy Orbison, and Ricky Nelson. Ideas were shared, food was eaten, songs were written, waves were caught, laughs were plenty, guitars were painted, suits were made, and Buzz Campbell & the Heartaches was born.

Buzz Campbell & the Heartaches has a roots "California Country" sound influenced from the 1950's & 1960's golden age of Honky Tonk, Rockabilly, and Rock n Roll music. Current Lee Rocker drummer and long-time country stalwart Larry Mitchell (Jan Brown) was added, along with pedal steel master, Dave Berzansky (Hacienda Brothers). Buzz and his group of all-stars are players from other long time national/ international acts that come together to play and entertain audiences with their retro sound and original music. One fan has so eloquently described there sound as, "the happiest sad songs ever...“