Johnny Cash

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, which started in 1994 with American Recordings and continued with
1996's Unchained, isn't really transformation, as Willie Nelson has done with his recent
cover treatments of reggae and blues. The point is that Cash's baritone (still able,... More >

The song alone ("Nobody," "Before My Time," "Would You Lay With Me [In a Field of Stone]").