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Solitary Man: American III
by: Johnny Cash

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5051011279423
Label: Rhino
Manufacturer: Rhino
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino
Release Date: February 13, 2006
Studio: Rhino
Sales Rank: 800

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
As the title suggests, this is the third of the albums that Cash has recorded since his career was resuscitated in 1993 by a fortuitous coming together with Def American founder Rick Rubin. Though Rubin was principally famous as a hip-hop producer, he brought out the best in Cash, having the sense to strip the recordings back to the bare minimum needed to support Cash's peerless voice. The first two records they made together, American Recordings and Unchained were two of the best albums of Cash's long and incalculably influential career, and Solitary Man is better than either. The album is about evenly split between Cash originals and covers of traditional songs that have influenced him, and newer material clearly written under his influence. His own songs embrace both the unabashed spiritualism of his under-regarded gospel recordings ("Field Of Diamonds", "Before My Time") and his eternal fascination with the rural America he was born into ("Country Trash"), and they are just great. The real gems, however, are the covers. Though Cash could now bring a baleful, Old Testament portent to "I Should Be So Lucky", his knelling baritone finds a hundred new shades of black in Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man", Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat" and, most surprisingly but most effectively, U2's "One". --Andrew Mueller

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Very, very suggestive performances
Not being an expert on country music or on Johnny Cash, I must say this album is moving and very very suggestive; with simple but clever arrangements, beautiful songs and amazing vocal...

Obviously more than merely touched by age and various ailments, mr. Johnny Cash performes with great passion and suggests wisdom no young singer can convey (or even come close to conveying)...

I like it very much!

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- 2nd Best of the American Series
Of the 5 American Series Cash released during his last years, this album is my 2nd favorite, very close to being IMHO as good as my favorite, A Man Comes Around IV. The main difference is that IV includes a few out of this world tracks that give it the edge over this one.

That is not to say that no stand out tracks are included on this set. No less practically half of the album reaches the status of being exceptional. Tom Petty sings along with Cash on the opening two tracks, the first being a Petty cover, I Won't Back Down. Petty's version is good but somewhat dated (Jeff Lynn produced it), Cash's version is more straight forward and much better. A similar analogy can be made of the next track, Solitary Man, a very straight ... Read More:

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- Perhaps the best late Cash album
This 3rd album in the 'American' series of recordings is amongst the best things Johnny Cash has ever done. As with all the late Cash recordings there is a running thread of passionate honesty and realism that runs throughout the entire the album.

Typical of this is the opening track "I Won't Back Down". Cash is defiant on this track: "Well I know whats right, I got just one life, in a world that keeps on pushing me around, but I stand my ground and I won't back down". This track like the rest is stripped down to a bare minimum. Accoustic guitar with some extra backing vocals on the chorus is all you get, and of because of Cash's fantastic lived in voice, this works to perfection.

Its Cash's voice and the sparse arrangements ... Read More:

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- The best album I've heard in years
I have bought American 2, 3 and 4 so far and this is my favourite. The selection of songs is second to none and Cash rises to the occasion to give a powerful set of performances despite his ailing health. What I love about this album is the passion, humour and defiance of a man nearing the end but determined to go out fighting.
I have bought a lot of albums over the years and I have a reasonably eclectic taste in music and for me this CD stands out because there is no hype, nothing to prove and no showing off, its just an honest portrait of a man late in his career warts and all.

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- One of his finest
From start to finish, this album is fantastic and is a superb example of Cash's unique voice. This album has a distinctly more modern feel than his earlier work - 'Solitary Man' presents us with guitar ballards rather than the 'country + western' music which brought him worldwide fame. However, this album never loses sight of what Cash's music is about: perhaps most clearly shown in his version of Nick Cave's 'The Mercy Seat' - here, Cash's deep and frail voice complements a very lyrical song perfectly. One of the great things about this album is that, although the majority of songs on it are covers, Cash has arranged and performs them in a distinctly personal way and consequently the album has a refreshingly origional feel to it. If you liked 'The Man ... Read More:

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