One Piece at a Time (album)

One Piece at a Time
Studio album by
Johnny Cash
ReleasedMay 17, 1976
Recorded1975–1976
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Length29:36
LabelColumbia
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Johnny Cash chronology
Strawberry Cake
(1976) 		One Piece at a Time
(1976) 		The Last Gunfighter Ballad
(1977)
Singles from One Piece at a Time
  1. "One Piece at a Time"
    Released: 1976
  2. "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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