Editing Cheating at Solitaire (section)

{{Infobox album|
| name         = Cheating at Solitaire
| type         = [[Album]]
| artist       = [[Mike Ness]]
| cover        = CheatingAtSolitaire.jpg
| alt          = 
| released     = April 13, 1999
| recorded     = 1998
| venue        = 
| studio       = 
| genre        = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[rock and roll]], [[Folk music|folk]], [[Country music|country]], [[roots rock]], [[Americana (music)|Americana]], [[Cowpunk]]
| length       = 
| label        = [[Time Bomb Recordings|Time Bomb]]
| producer     = [[Mike Ness]], James Saez
| prev_title   = 
| prev_year    = 
| next_title   = [[Under the Influences]]
| next_year    = 1999
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r401773|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
|rev2= [[Robert Christgau]]
|rev2score={{rating-Christgau|neither}}<ref>[http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=mike+ness Mike Ness Reviews]</ref>
}}
'''''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 rock|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]]''.<ref>[http://course1.winona.edu/mhauge/personal/sxdx/sets_art/demos/#losttracks2 Social Distortion & Mike Ness Trade List] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110065515/http://course1.winona.edu/mhauge/personal/sxdx/sets_art/demos/#losttracks2#losttracks2 |date=2017-01-10 }}. Retrieved on July 29, 2006.</ref> Ness also originally wrote some of the songs on this album around 1997 while Social Distortion was planning their sixth album.