Johnny Cash – American III: Solitary Man – CD

Between ‘American II: Unchained’ (1996) 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 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
8 Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stones)
9 Field of Diamonds
10 Before My Time
11 Country Trash
12 Mary of the Wild Moor
13 I’m Leavin’ Now – Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard
14 Wayfaring Stranger