I Won’t Back Down

~ Recording by Johnny Cash

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.1I Won’t Back Down2:12Johnny CashAmerican III: Solitary ManJohnny CashAlbum
  • US2000-10-17
American RecordingsCK 69691
1.1I Won’t Back Down2:12Johnny CashAmerican III: Solitary ManJohnny CashAlbum
  • US2000-10-17
American Recordings314 586 792-2
1.1I Won't Back Down2:12Johnny CashAmerican III: Solitary Man (limited edition)Johnny CashAlbum
  • XE2000-12-19
American Recordings500986 9
1.1I Won’t Back Down2:09Johnny CashAmerican III: Solitary ManJohnny CashAlbum
American Recordings500986 2
1.1I Won't Back Down2:09Johnny CashAmerican III: Solitary Man (Reissue)Johnny CashAlbum
American Recordings51011 2794-2
2.18I Won't Back Down2:10Johnny CashMan in Black: The Very Best of Johnny CashJohnny CashAlbum + Compilation
Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)COL 503023 2
1.17I Won't Back Down2:09Johnny CashThe Legend of Johnny Cash, Vol. IIJohnny CashAlbum + Compilation
  • US2006-11-21
UMe (imprint of Universal Music Enterprises)B0008056-02
1.1I Won't Back Down2:09Johnny CashAmerican III: Solitary ManJohnny CashAlbum
American Recordings88697-17709-2
1.1I Won't Back Down2:09Johnny CashAmerican III: Solitary ManJohnny CashAlbum
American Recordings88697177092
1.1I Won't Back Down2:09Johnny CashAmerican III: Solitary ManJohnny CashAlbum
  • XE2013-05-07
American Recordings0602537351121
1.1I Won't Back Down2:12Johnny CashAmerican III: Solitary ManJohnny CashAlbum
American RecordingsB0019197-01
3.1I Won’t Back Down2:08Johnny CashAmerican Recordings I–VIJohnny CashAlbum + Compilation
  • US2015-03-23
American RecordingsB0020627-01
3.1I Won’t Back Down2:08Johnny CashAmerican Recordings I–VIJohnny CashAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2015-05-07
American Recordings060254721702
Promotion
1.4I Won’t Back Down2:07Johnny CashCMJ New Music Monthly, Volume 87: November 2000Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
College Music JournalCMJ-NMM087
Bootleg
1.23I Won’t Back Down?:??Johnny CashThe Ultimate Best of Johnny CashJohnny CashAlbum + Compilation
[no label] (Special purpose label – white labels, self-published releases and other “no label” releases)[none]

Relationships

miscellaneous support:Lindsay Chase
additional engineer:D.Sardy (American score composer)
Richard Dodd (mastering engineer, producer and engineer)
David Schiffman (American producer/audio engineer)
engineer and mixer:David Ferguson (Nashville artist, sound engineer)
associate producer:John Carter Cash
producer:Rick Rubin (American record producer and former co-president of Columbia Records)
editor:Billy Bowers (US engineer)
Chuck Turner
organ:Tom Petty
lead vocals:Johnny Cash (country music legend)
vocals:Tom Petty
recorded at:Akademie Mathematique of Philosphical Sound Research in Los Angeles, California, United States
Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States
mixed at:Akademie Mathematique of Philosphical Sound Research in Los Angeles, California, United States
recording of:I Won’t Back Down (cover)

I Won’t Back Down

writer:Jeff Lynne
Tom Petty
publisher:EMI April Music Inc.
Gone Gator Music (ASCAP affiliated)
日音 Synch事業部
イーエムアイ音楽出版 ソニー事業部 (until 2021-06-30)
ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
later parody versions:I Want That Crown