Cheating at Solitaire

Cheating at Solitaire
Studio album by Mike Ness
Released	April 13, 1999
Recorded	1998
Genre	Rock, rock and roll, folk, country, roots rock, Americana, Cowpunk
Label	Time Bomb
Producer	Mike Ness, James Saez
Mike Ness chronology
Cheating at Solitaire (1999) Under the Influences (1999)

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Cheating at Solitaire is the first solo album from Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness. Released in 1999, it bypasses much of Social Distortion's punk muscle in favor of a more roots-oriented approach to rock and roll. It features cameos by Bruce Springsteen, Brian Setzer, and members of Royal Crown Revue. Johnny Cash was invited to perform on the song "Ballad of a Lonely Man", but was too ill to record at the time.

"Dope Fiend Blues" and "I'm In Love w/My Car" were originally written/recorded in 1994 as a demo of Social Distortion's fifth album White Light, White Heat, White Trash.^[3] Ness also originally wrote some of the songs on this album around 1997 while Social Distortion was planning their sixth album.