Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man
Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
ONE OF THE bullet-point discussions of this album on which the mythopoeic Man in Black does the Rick Rubin thang a third time, thus completing a neat trilogy with American Recordings and Unchained might be how it takes a John R. Cash to bring a Will Palace Oldham into the orbit of L.A. luminaries like Tom Petty and Sheryl Crow; or, for that matter, to bring Oldhams chilling I See A Darkness into the same frame as Pettys I Wont Back Down and U2s One.
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