Even the best good ideas can get pushed too far, and for Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man is one Rick Rubin-built cover album over the line. The point with the Cash-Rubin series ...

When I was in my late teens, a good friend loaned me his copy of Johnny ... American album that clicked with me, that sold me on the series, that brought me over to the House of Cash? “American ...

With the help of producer Rick Rubin, he recorded the album American ... III’s sweetly goofy parable “The Man Who Couldn’t Cry?” That should give you a sense that maybe Johnny Cash and ...

When we consider Johnny Cash ... other ailments), Cash’s physical condition was deteriorating, but he still managed to come through with American III: Solitary Man. This album would feature ...

Rick Rubin had never intended Johnny Cash’s Tennessee cabin, or his own Los Angeles living room for that matter, to become the de facto recording studios for their first album together.

In the upcoming documentary, Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon ... signs autographs and receives an award for album of the year. "He wanted to do and say something more with his ...