III/IV [SEP] record label
III/IV
III/IV is the 12th studio album by alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, released on December 14, 2010 through PAX AM. The album is his fifth with backing band The Cardinals, and was recorded in 2006 during the same sessions that yielded "Easy Tiger". A double album, "III/IV" was recorded prior to bassist Catherine Popper's departure, and also marks guitarist and backing vocalist Neal Casal's recording debut for the band. According to Adams, the album
its record debut were revolutionary, in that (i) the songwriters (Overstreet and Higgins, (ii) the original copyright publisher, Harry Herbert Pace, (iii) the vocalist to first record it (Ethel Waters), (iv) the owners of Black Swan (the record label), (v) the opera singer (Elizabeth Greenfield) for whom the label was named, and (vi) the musicians on the recording led by Fletcher Henderson, were all African American. The production is identified by historians