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The eldest child of Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto, Rosanne Cash was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 24, 1955. After her parents separated she and her three sisters grew up in California.

At 18 she joined The Johnny Cash Show, further absorbing his influence along with that of his legendary touring show partners Carl Perkins and the Carter Family. The Carter Family's June Carter later became Rosanne's stepmother when she married Cash in 1968.

Rosanne went on to study drama at Nashville's Vanderbilt University and at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles before focusing on her music. In the 30 years since she has released 12 albums including Right or Wrong, Seven Year Ache,Somewhere in the Stars, Rhythm and Romance, King's Record Shop, Interiors, The Wheel, 10 Song Demo, Rules of Travel, Black Cadillac, and most recently, The List. She has also recorded 11 No. 1 singles, blurring the genres of country, rock, roots and pop. In 1985 she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female, for her hit "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me," and has received nine other nominations.

Her highly personal yet universally appealing writing style is also manifest in her parallel prose career. Rosanne published a collection of short stories, Bodies of Water, in 1995, and a children's book, Penelope Jane: A Fairy's Tale, in 2000. Composed, her long-awaited memoir, was published in 2010. Additionally, her essays and fiction have appeared in various collections and publications, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, The Oxford American and New York Magazine.

The mother of five children, Rosanne lives in New York City with her husband, producer and guitarist John Leventhal, and her youngest child.

For more:  Rosanne's Wikipedia entry

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August 24, 2009
This is my dad’s military jacket from his days as a sergeant in the Air Force in the early 1950’s. He was stationed in Landsberg, Germany. My mother kept this jacket all the years they were married, and when my mom and dad divorced, he didn’t ask for the jacket back, and she kept it in pristine condition in her closet. It stayed in her closet for over fifty years. When she died, I inherited the jacket. I kept it in my house for four years, but it started to make me anxious. I was worried about the lack of climate-controlled conditions, and I wasn’t sure of the proper way to preserve a fifty- plus year old wool Air Force jacket, so in early 2009, I donated it to the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. I was sad to let the jacket go, and I gave it a little hug before I sent it off. Some things that are passed down to you have another destination, and you have to be willing to let them proceed to their proper home.

This is my dad’s military jacket from his days as a sergeant in the Air Force in the early 1950’s. He was stationed in Landsberg, Germany. My mother kept this jacket all the years they were married, and when my mom and dad divorced, he didn’t ask for the jacket back, and she kept it in pristine condition in her closet. It stayed in her closet for over fifty years. When she died, I inherited the jacket. I kept it in my house for four years, but it started to make me anxious. I was worried about the lack of climate-controlled conditions, and I wasn’t sure of the proper way to preserve a fifty- plus year old wool Air Force jacket, so in early 2009, I donated it to the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. I was sad to let the jacket go, and I gave it a little hug before I sent it off. Some things that are passed down to you have another destination, and you have to be willing to let them proceed to their proper home.

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