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American III: Solitary Man is a studio album by Johnny Cash. It was released on October 17, 2000, by American Recordings. It is the third album in Cash's American series.

American III: Solitary Man
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 17, 2000
Recorded2000
StudioCash Cabin Studio (Hendersonville, Tennessee), Akadémie Mathématique of Philosophical Sound Research (Los Angeles, California)
Genre
  • Country
  • Americana
  • acoustic rock
  • Southern gothic
Length42:15
LabelAmerican
Producer
Johnny Cash chronology
Love, God and Murder
(2000)
American III: Solitary Man
(2000)
Return to the Promised Land
(2000)
American series chronology
Unchained
(1996)
American III: Solitary Man
(2000)
American IV: The Man Comes Around
(2002)

Background


Between American II: Unchained and American III: Solitary Man, Cash's health declined due to various ailments, and he was even hospitalized for pneumonia, and the illness forced him to curtail his touring. This album contained Cash's response to his illness, typified by a version of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down", as well as a version of U2's "One". Changes to Cash's voice due to his health problems are noticeable on most tracks when compared to his most recent preceding albums. Graeme Thomson has characterized "Solitary Man" as an act of emotional preservation.[1]


Previous recordings


Three songs featured on the album had previously been recorded by Cash.


Critical reception


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Rolling Stone[3]
Pitchfork(8.6/10)[4]

American III: Solitary Man received mostly positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 15 reviews.[5] In a positive review for Entertainment Weekly, David Browne gave the album a Grade A rating, saying, "Though the Man in Black has rarely sounded blacker, producer Rick Rubin frames that deep sea voice with harmonies and churchly organs, making for a dark angel beauty of an album that's austere but welcoming." A review from Sonicnet praised Cash's ability to interpret songs and make them his own, saying, "When a tune falls into the jurisdiction of the venerable country-folk troubadour, the accumulated details of any previous readings or associations are stripped away, and its core brilliantly revealed." A review published by Billboard said the album "may lack the immediate impact of its predecessors but is no less a masterpiece." Splendid said that "the covers on American III will attract the majority of listener attention; Cash's own material steals the show." Jim DeRogatis of The Chicago Sun-Times wrote that it as "arguably the strongest of his American Recordings" with the series' "single best performance and most inspired cover choice via Cash's rendition of the Death Row anthem 'The Mercy Seat' by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds."[6]

Rolling Stone gave a mixed review, saying that "the onus here lies on the production...Rick Rubin's work is too timid; mostly, the shy combos of guitar, fiddle and accordion, or Benmont Tench's subliminal contributions on keyboards, make up the kind of severe meal that one is forced to think of as tasteful." In a mixed review, the A.V. Club said, "Like Neil Young's Silver And Gold, it feels like a thematically empty, knockabout place-holder. American Recordings, one of Cash's towering classics, was all devotion and doubt, a brilliant, raw-boned meditation on redemption and death. A loose, flat set of odds and ends, Solitary Man is merely a minor but endearing record from a man who seems to know he's given more than enough." The Spin Cycle called the album "mixed, leaning at times to inadvertent novelty."


Commercial performance


The album peaked at number eleven on the US Billboard Top Country Albums chart and at number 88 on the US Billboard 200.


Track listing


No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Won't Back Down" (with Tom Petty)Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne2:09
2."Solitary Man"Neil Diamond2:25
3."That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)"Haven Gillespie, Beasley Smith2:35
4."One"Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen3:53
5."Nobody"Bert Williams3:14
6."I See a Darkness" (with Will Oldham)Will Oldham3:42
7."The Mercy Seat"Nick Cave, Mick Harvey4:35
8."Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)"David Allan Coe2:41
9."Field of Diamonds"Johnny Cash, Jack Wesley Routh3:15
10."Before My Time"Cash2:55
11."Country Trash"Cash1:47
12."Mary of the Wild Moor"Dennis Turner2:32
13."I'm Leavin' Now" (with Merle Haggard)Cash3:07
14."Wayfaring Stranger"Traditional3:19
Total length:42:15

Personnel



Charts


Album - Billboard (United States)


Certifications


Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[11] Gold 100,000^
United States 186,000[12]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.


Accolades


Year Nominee / work Award Result
2001 "Solitary Man" Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance Won

References


  1. Thomson, G. (2011). The Resurrection of Johnny Cash: Hurt, Redemption, and American Recordings. Jawbone Press, pp. 218-219.
  2. Johnson, Zac. "American III: Solitary Man – Johnny Cash". AllMusic. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  3. "Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  4. "Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man Album Review | Pitchfork". Pitchfork.
  5. "American III: Solitary Man by Johnny Cash". Metacritic. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  6. DeRogatis, Jim (September 14, 2003). "The original punk rocker". Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  7. "Johnny Cash Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
  8. "Johnny Cash Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
  9. "Top 100 country albums of 2001 in Canada". Jam!. Archived from the original on July 1, 2002. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  10. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2001". Billboard. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
  11. "British album certifications – Johnny Cash – Solitary man". British Phonographic Industry.
  12. "8ask". Billboard. February 19, 2003. Retrieved April 2, 2018.

На других языках


[de] American III: Solitary Man

American III: Solitary Man ist das dritte Musikalbum in der „American-Recordings“-Serie des Country-Sängers Johnny Cash. Es wurde im Oktober 2000 veröffentlicht und erreichte Platz 11 der Country-Charts.
- [en] American III: Solitary Man

[es] American III: Solitary Man

American III: Solitary Man es el trigésimonoveno álbum que el cantante country Johnny Cash hace en el sello American Recordings, el álbum fue lanzado en el 2000 después del sorprendente éxito que tuvo su CD anterior Unchained y el box set Love, God and Murder. Entre Unchained y este álbum, la salud de Cash estuvo en peligro por la ingestión de varios alimentos, así que lo internaron en un hospital por neuropatía, La enfermedad hizo que Cash tuviera que cortar seriamente su gira. En este álbum se encuentra la canción "I Won't Back Down" (No me echare para atrás) que fue puesta en este álbum en respuesta a la enfermedad que tenía. En este álbum también se encuentra la canción "One", de la banda U2. Al igual que los otros 2 álbumes que Cash ha hecho en American Recordings, este también fue merecedor de un Grammy por mejor cantante country hombre por la clásica versión de la canción "Solitary Man" de Neil Diamond.

[ru] American III: Solitary Man

American III: Solitary Man — 85-ый студийный альбом кантри-исполнителя Джонни Кэша, изданный в 2000 году. Третий альбом серии American Recordings, получившей своё название от одноимённого лейбла звукозаписи. За American III: Solitary Man музыкант получил Грэмми в номинации «лучшее мужское кантри исполнение».[1] Также альбом занял 62 место в списке «100 лучших альбомов 2000-х» по версии журнала Rolling Stone.[2]



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