One Piece at a Time (album)

One Piece at a Time
One Piece at a Time
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	May 17, 1976
Recorded	1975–1976
Genre	Country; folk; blues;
Length	29:36
Label	Columbia
Producer	Charlie Bragg; Don Davis;
Johnny Cash chronology
Singles from One Piece at a Time
	"One Piece at a Time"; Released: 1976; "Sold Out of Flagpoles"; Released: 1976;

One Piece at a Time is the 54th album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1976 on Columbia Records. "One Piece at a Time," which was a #1 hit, is a humorous tale of an auto worker on the Detroit assembly line who puts together a car out of parts he swipes from the plant. "Sold Out of Flag Poles" also charted as a single, reaching #29 on the country singles charts. "Committed to Parkview", a Cash original, would be re-recorded in 1985 by Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, collectively known as The Highwaymen, on their first album, Highwayman; it is one of the few country songs sung from the perspective of a patient at a mental hospital.^{[citation needed]}

The album is notable for being credited to "Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three", a credit that hadn't been used on Cash releases since the 1960s, and for featuring Cash's recording of "Love Has Lost Again," written by his daughter, Rosanne Cash prior to the launch of her own solo career. On "Let There Be Country", the album's opening track, Cash shares songwriting credit with Shel Silverstein, who had written Cash's biggest hit up to this time, "A Boy Named Sue".

"Go On Blues" was later re-recorded during the American Recordings session with Rick Rubin. It was not on the album but part of the promo single for "Delia's Gone".

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Johnny Cash, except where indicated.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Let There Be Country"	Johnny Cash, Shel Silverstein	2:58
2.	"One Piece at a Time"	Wayne Kemp	4:04
3.	"In a Young Girl's Mind"	Hoyt Axton, Mark Dawson	3:09
4.	"Mountain Lady"		2:43
5.	"Michigan City Howdy Do"		2:26
6.	"Sold Out of Flag Poles"		2:45
7.	"Committed to Parkview"		3:14
8.	"Daughter of a Railroad Man"		3:12
9.	"Love Has Lost Again"	Rosanne Cash	2:24
10.	"Go On Blues"		2:23

Personnel

Johnny Cash - vocals, acoustic guitar
Bob Wootton, Bobby Thompson, Pete Wade, Dave Kirby, Jerry Hensley, Jack Routh, Helen Carter Jones, Jimmy Capps - guitar
Marshall Grant, Henry Strzelecki, Joe Allen - bass
WS Holland, Willie Ackerman, Jerry Carrigan, Kenny Malone - drums
Lloyd Green - steel guitar
Tommy Williams - mandolin
Tommy Jackson, Buddy Spicher, Johnny Gimble - fiddle
Bobby Wood, David Briggs, Larry McCoy, Earl Poole Ball - piano
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
George Tidwell - trumpet
The Nashville Edition - vocals

Additional personnel

Produced by Charlie Bragg and Don Davis
"Michigan City Howdy Do" and "Daughter of a Railroad Man" produced by Charlie Bragg
"Committed to Parkview" produced by Don Davis
Recorded at House of Cash Recording Studio
Engineers: Charlie Bragg, Roger Tucker, Danny Jones, Chuck Bragg
Cover photo: Mike Woosley
Liner notes: Johnny Cash