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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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October 2, 2009

The first photo is a monument to the legendary Black Watch regiment, in Aberfeldy, Scotland.  My ancestry on my father’s side begins in Scotland, as part of the Clan McDonald, not too far from Aberfeldy, in what is lovingly called The Kingdom of Fife.  I visited Aberfeldy in February, 2009, for the first time.  I had been to Fife and the surrounding area many times, as well as Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, but never to this part of Perthshire.  I filmed a couple of episodes of “Transatlantic Sessions” at a beautiful estate, inside an ancient barn, near Aberfeldy, in Fortingall.

The second photo is of the filming in the barn, with my friends and great musicians Phil Cunningham, Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas and several other superb musicians.  I found out something very strange during the filming.  In the year 1692,  there was a bloody massacre called the Massacre of Glencoe,  in which the men from the Campbell clan murdered 38 unarmed McDonalds in one horrible night.  I found out that the very estate where we were filming “Transatlantic Sessions” was where the plan for the massacre hatched, and just over a little hill from the place where

38 unarmed McDonalds were killed in this infamous raid, which is still memorialized every year in Scotland. I looked around the barn where we were playing, which was in existence during the massacre, and I walked the very grounds where the massacre was put in motion.  I thought about the fact that I, with my Clan McDonald ancestry, was making music with men with Campbell ancestry, on a night over three hundred years after those distant ancestors met in mortal combat, in the very same spot.  It was a transcendent moment, and a very potent reminder that music is the great connector. No matter how profound our differences, even those that are part of our DNA, even those differences that somehow merit memorials and rituals and centuries of bitterness, can be dissolved very quickly with an A minor chord, a piano, a guitar and a violin.  This knowledge, and the music, is perhaps the most important thing I have received as a legacy.

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