The Similarities Engine

Albums similar to American Recordings

These are the albums most often named alongside Johnny Cash - American Recordings by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Johnny Cash, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. Lou Reed - New York
2. Charlie Parker - Essential
3. Louis Armstrong - 16 Most Requested Songs
4. Sally Yip - Face to Face
5. Daniel Amos - MotorCycle
6. Graham Parker - Struck by Lightning
7. Los Lobos - The Neighborhood
8. Maria Callas - Diva
9. The Hilliard Ensemble - Officium
10. Various - Red Hot & Blue
11. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
12. Mule - If I Don't Six
13. Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
14. Danzig - Danzig III: How the Gods Kill
15. The Beach Boys - Made in U.S.A.
16. face to face - Don’t Turn Away
17. Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
18. Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor
19. Edwyn Collins - Gorgeous George
20. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
21. Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose
22. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Stoned & Dethroned
23. Elvis Costello - Trust
24. Mike Watt - Ball‐Hog or Tugboat?
25. Elvis Costello - Spike
26. Steely Dan - Katy Lied
27. The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
28. Morphine - Yes
29. Paul Weller - Stanley Road
30. Blues Traveler - Blues Traveler

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