JOHNNY CASH "Solitary Man" Sealed Original 2000 US Country LP [American Records]

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Johnny Cash / American III: Solitary Man - American Recordings Records 69691-1 (US)(2000) ...This auction is for an original issue, factory Sealed Record on (US) vinyl. This is a first pressing on American Recordings Records that is no longer in print.

   Partnering once again with Tom Petty, the two join together on Petty's own "I Won't Back Down" and the Neil Diamond-penned title track. Johnny Cash also lays his lonesome hands on U2's "One" and reunites with fellow outlaw Merle Haggard on the stubborn "I'm Leavin' Now," which could serve as the soundtrack for the notorious photo of Cash's sneering middle finger published in Billboard after his Grammy award. These duets and well-known covers show an inviting side of Johnny Cash. But the real highlights of the album are those reminiscent of his American Recordings songs; they feature just the man and his guitar, and the story.

  Track listings and reviews listed below...
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Detailed item info:

Track listing
(Side One)
1. I Won't Back Down
2. Solitary Man
3. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
4. One
5. Nobody
6. I See a Darkness
7. The Mercy Seat

(Side Two)
1. Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)
2. Field of Diamonds
3. Before My Time
4. Country Trash
5. Mary of the Wild Moor
6. I'm Leaving Now
7. Wayfaring Stranger

Details Contributing artists: Marty Stewart, Merle Haggard, Norman Blake, Randy Scruggs, Sheryl Crow, Tom Petty, Will Oldham Producer: Rick Rubin Distributor: American Recordings
Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo
Album notes Personnel: Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard (vocals, guitar); Sheryl Crow (vocals, accordion); Tom Petty (vocals, organ); Will Oldham, June Carter Cash (vocals); Norman Blake, Mike Campbell, Larry Perkins, Randy Scruggs, Marty Stuart (guitar); Laura Cash (fiddle); Benmont Tench (piano, harmonium, organ).
Recorded at The Cash Cabin Studio, Hendersonville, Tennessee and The Akademie Mathematique Of Philosophical Sound Research, Los Angeles, California.

"Solitary Man" won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
AMERICAN III was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

Johnny Cash went through a lot in the late 1990s and the year 2000: a debilitating nerve disorder put the brakes on his live performances and touring, yet with AMERICAN III: SOLITARY MAN, his spirit and abilities remain undiminished. His voice has taken on a slightly more gentle and reflective quality, and his association with producer Rick Rubin has afforded him the opportunity to choose, and write, songs that are worthy of him.
The Neil Diamond '60s pop hit "Solitary Man" is given an acoustic, spare reading, yet one can sense the demons of loneliness and frustration behind Cash's stoic delivery. Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat" is an eerie, obsessive litany of the first-person musings and observations of an innocent man's time of execution. The Cash originals, like the proud yet wryly sarcastic "Country Trash" and devotional love song "Before My Time," let some light in. The overall sound of AMERICAN III: SOLITARY MAN is predominantly acoustic and intimate, with guitar, fiddle, piano, organ, and harmonium; guest stars Merle Haggard, Sheryl Crow, Tom Petty, and Norman Blake sound right at home with the Man In Black.

Editorial reviews ...The choice is igenious, their themes of survival, toughness, self-destructyion, sin, redemption and love adding up to an autobiography....his voice is sober, honest and defiant...
Mojo  (11/01/2000)

9 out of 10 - ...What is remarkable about this is its punishing intensity....stripped down, vivid and pure, emotionally naked stuff from a 68-year-old man who just 12 months ago was very seriously ill...
NME  (10/21/2000)

...Pure goosebump material....[His] voice is commanding and cavernous in ever more tangible ways...
CMJ  (10/16/2000)

Included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 2000.
Q  (01/01/2001)

...It's a powerful disc....the key to its impact is in the reimagination [of songs] to make them [his]...
No Depression  (01/01/2001)

4 stars out of 5 - ...A regal comeback. It's a mostly acoustic affair...featuring unlikely covers....as resonant and dignified a covers album as you'll ever hear.
Q  (12/01/2000)

Included in CMJ's Year's Best Triple A Albums from 2000.
CMJ  (01/08/2001)

Ranked #32 in NME's Top 50 Albums Of The Year.
NME  (12/30/2000)

Ranked #8 in EW's Top 10 Albums of 2000 - ...These songs have rarely sounded so authentic, thanks to arrangements that are spare but never colorless and a voice that;s deep in more ways than one.
Entertainment Weekly  (12/29/2000)

Ranked #17 in Mojo's 100 Modern Classics -- Makes rock songs sound like something as old as the hills.
Mojo