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American III: Solitary Man
Released: 2000 14 tracksPosts about > American III: Solitary Man
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Who doesn't love this song.American III, American Recordings, and Unchained arrived recently. Nights, mornings I've lain in bed listening. American Recordings and Unchained have yet to have the hearings they deserve. After washing dishes to the accompaniment of American III, I sat in my chair and listened again. This time unfolding the oversized liner notes. Reading these casual reminiscences was a loosening. Turning to the notes for Unchained was my undoing. Veggie burger... MORE
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Well here let's give up for the musicians who played on this project: Norman Blake - GuitarMike Campbell - GuitarJune Carter Cash - Vocals on "Field of Diamonds" Laura Cash - FiddleSheryl Crow - Vocals on "Field of Diamonds," Accordion on "Wayfaring Stranger" and "Mary of the Wild Moor" Merle Haggard - Vocals on "I'm Leavin' Now," GuitarWill Oldham - Vocals on "I See a Darkness" Larry Perkins - GuitarTom Petty - Vocals on "I Won't Back Down" and "Solitary Man," Organ on ... MORE
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I began this album as the last one, in the cabin, in the middle of a 50-acre compound surrounded by cedar trees, deer, goats, and peacocks. The window unit air conditioner doesn't work anymore. We had buffalo, and every time it came on, they rammed it with their horns. Sometimes we have to stop tape for a thunderstorm. We play back the songs and the mockingbirds sing along with it.
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Laying on our backs and looking at the stars at our house in Jamaica Jack Routh and I wrote "Field of Diamonds." The unlikely duet of June and Sheryl Crow sang along with me, and it really felt comfortable.
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I sat on the porch and talked to Haggard about the road. "I play Chattanooga tonight," he said. His bus waited just outside my gate while we recorded "I'm Leavin' Now." "Tell them I said hello." I'm glad I didn't have to go. "You'll be back out there," he said, with a slight grin. "We'll see," I said. We recorded the song without a hitch. Marty Stuart played the Hank Snow style guitar, and Laura Cash on fiddle. It's always a good day for me when I can see an old friend lik... MORE
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God I love this song. Its realness and intimacy and honesty. It seems absolutely right for Cash and sweeter still to have Oldham contribute a vocal. It's one of those songs that when I start playing it I don't really know how to stop. The lyrics that speak to me most directly:Well you know I have a love A love for everyone I know And you know I have a drive To live I won't let go But can you see its opposition Comes rising up sometimes That its dreadful and position Comes ... MORE
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Three for One
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It's hard for music geeks to get passionate about music that's actually popular. We tend to get passionate about these bands that seem to speak to us but not to other people in adolescence, and this habit sticks with us. Thus we complain when a band that was formerly "ours" gets popular--they sold out, we cry, when what we really mean is "liking this band no longer identifies me as a cool outsider!" (Exception--we can also get passionate about pre-fab pop music, but th... MORE
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Remorse
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I'm such a bad person. I stumbled in at 1.30 with a gang of folks and blasted music 'til 2.30, waking up my room mate. What an a-hole. She woks the same hours as me, and while it was my decision to stay up stupidly late and suffer for it at work today, it wasn't hers. So so so danged sorry.
Here's my remorseful song, Johnny Cash covering Bonnie 'Prince' Billie (with Billie doing backing vocals)
