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About
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
Links
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AOL’s The Boot wrote a nice feature on my daughter Chelsea and her new album
Under the category of ‘Sartorial Inheritances’: My dad and I both loved tall black boots! (backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, 1977)
This is the beach at Napeague, Long Island. It’s funny to think of a beach being passed on to you, but my ancestor, William Cash, who was a Nantucket whaler, shipwrecked right here in 1839. He was one of four men to survive, and he swam to shore during the storm, while his ship burned on the reef. I go to this spot a lot, and I feel a bit territorial about it, since in a small way it represents the survival of the Cash line. It’s my beach, passed on by a 19th century whaler who shares my last name, and who survives in part in me.
From left Carl Perkins, Dave Edmunds, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Rosanne Cash, Ringo Starr, Slim Jim Phantom et.al Cinemax special, London, 1985
My dad was a good friend to Carl, and Carl repaid that friendship by passing it forward and inviting me to be the only woman on this show (the ‘token’ woman, as one of the producers snarkily informed me, but I didn’t give a damn). All the music represented on this stage is a legacy so huge that it is something we will all share, for generations to come.
This is the headstock on my Martin guitar. Martin made a Rosanne Cash model last year and it is just gorgeous. I am extremely proud of it. You can see more of it on the cover of my new record “The List”, or at this link. Some guitar gods I know were seriously alarmed that the color green appeared on a Martin headstock, an event that had never before occurred in Martin history. I am the second generation in my family that has had a Martin signature guitar, and I suspect I will not the last generation to receive that honor.
Patsy Cline’s iconic version of “She’s Got You” by Hank Cochran
And the lyrics, which contain a list within ‘The List’:
I’ve got your picture that you gave to meAnd it’s signed with love just like it used to be
The only thing different, the only thing new
I’ve got your picture, she’s got you
I’ve got the records that we used to share
And they still sound the same as when you were here
The only thing different, the only thing new
I’ve got the records, she’s got you
I’ve got your memory, or, has it got me?
I really don’t know but I know it won’t let me be
I’ve got your class ring that proved you cared
And it still looks the same as when you gave it, dear
The only thing different, the only thing new
I’ve got these little things, she’s got you
I’ve got your memory, or, has it got me?
I really don’t know but I know it won’t let me be
I’ve got your class ring that proved you cared
And it still looks the same as when you gave it, dear
The only thing different, the only thing new
I’ve got these little things, she’s-got-you
