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Rosanne Cash
The List
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AMG Review of The List
Steve Leggett
All Music GuideAfter the dark and chilling themes of 2006's Black Cadillac, which saw Rosanne Cash dealing with the deaths of her mother, Vivian Liberto, her father, Johnny Cash, and her stepmother, June Carter Cash -- all of whom passed within a two-year span -- one might assume that her next project would move into an even deeper level of bleakness, but with The List, it's immediately clear that she has instead found a more measured place to stand, and it's a lovely and redemptive outing that looks back to go forward. When Cash turned 18, her father, alarmed that his daughter only knew the songs that were getting played on the radio, gave her a list of what he considered 100 essential American songs; Cash kept that list, and now she's drawn on it for this wonderfully nuanced outing that brims with a kind of redemptive timelessness. The List is a renewal and a testament to life, and it belongs to her father as much as it belongs to her, a beautiful restatement of her father's passions, only now, they've become his daughter's treasures, as well. It's an affirming story, but that's all it would be if Cash didn't sing her heart out here. And she does sing her heart out. The opener, a version of Jimmie Rodgers' "Miss the Mississippi and You," is full of comfortable grace and sentiment, and Cash keeps that fine emotional tone throughout this set. Songs like the folk classic "500 Miles" feel at once both lovingly rendered and reborn for a new century in Cash's hands, and she doesn't update them so much as find redemption and solace in them, which in turn gives these songs a bright relevance, and because of the connection to her father and the list he gave to her, it also feels like a deep personal statement. There's so much to take comfort in here, including her fine rendering of Bob Dylan's "Girl from the North Country," a nice turn at Harlan Howard's "Heartaches by the Number" (which features Elvis Costello), a calm but still spooky duet with Jeff Tweedy on the faux-murder ballad "Long Black Veil," and a duet with Bruce Springsteen on Hal David and Paul Hampton's "Sea of Heartbreak." Cash sings with a calm, measured authority, and all these the songs fit together with the same sort of refreshing resignation and care. Contemporary country radio probably won't touch anything here, since country these days seems to be more about name-checking than any actual preservation, but Cash is after something else again -- it's about connecting with the past and carrying it forward as an act of personal faith. It has nothing to do with hats or belt buckles.
Rosanne Cash – The List (Review)
Rosanne Cash: 10 October 2009 - St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn (Notes from the Road)
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Words and Pictures by Thomas HaunerRosanne Cash performed for a sold-out crowd Saturday night at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn to celebrate the release of her latest album, The List. The album, like Ms. Cash’s own repertoire, spanning both genres and epochs, is a selection of songs from a list of 100 that her father, Johnny Cash, presented to her in 1973 as a rudimentary syllabus of country,
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Rosanne Cash: The List (Reviews)
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Thanks to Rosanne, Johnny Cash's list is a gift that survives to give again.Rosanne Cash's new album takes its name from a list her father prepared to provide his daughter an education in country music, via 100 essential songs. Cash has culled 12 and offers them as The List, an intensely focused and affecting addition to her catalog. Predictably, given its personal lineage, this new record has ...
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SUTC - Heartaches By The Number (Feat. Elvis Costello)
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Track:Heartaches By The Number (Feat. Elvis Costello)
A bit more heartache for ya this morning. This comes from a CD of a list of what Johnny Cash considered to be 100 essential country tunes he felt Rosanne should know. He wrote the list and gave it to her when she was 18. Since there are only 12 cuts on this CD, I suppose we may hear some more volumes coming our way, if this is successful. She does a fine job with all the tunes.One more for you ...
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CMP Talks with Rosanne Cash about life, her legendary father and her extraordinary new album.
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Rosanne Cash’s new album, The List, could be called the Dead Sea Scrolls of country music. A strange analogy, but an entirely apt one for a disc with twelve tracks by Cash from a list of 100 essential country and roots songs compiled for her by her father, the legendary Johnny Cash, when she [...]
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Rosanne Cash: 10 October 2009 - St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn (Notes from the Road)
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Words and Pictures by Thomas HaunerRosanne Cash performed for a sold-out crowd Saturday night at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn to celebrate the release of her latest album, The List. The album, like Ms. Cash’s own repertoire, spanning both genres and epochs, is a selection of songs from a list of 100 that her father, Johnny Cash, presented to her in 1973 as a rudimentary syllabus of country,
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Rosanne Cash: The List (Reviews)
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Thanks to Rosanne, Johnny Cash's list is a gift that survives to give again.Rosanne Cash's new album takes its name from a list her father prepared to provide his daughter an education in country music, via 100 essential songs. Cash has culled 12 and offers them as The List, an intensely focused and affecting addition to her catalog. Predictably, given its personal lineage, this new record has ...
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Rosanne Cash Contest
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October 6, 2009, Johnny Cash’s daughter Rosanne Cash will be releasing her 12th studio album, The List, on Manhattan Records. It features a complimentary collection of country songs that were given to Rosanne in 1973 from her father. After undergoing brain surgery for a benign condition, she listened and gathered her own interpretation from this [...]Related posts:Contest :: Björk’s Vol
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