Rhythm & Romance was the fifth release and second #1 Billboard country album for Rosanne Cash. Her highest honor came when one of its tracks, "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me", won the 1985 Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 for Best Country Vocal Performance by a female artist. That song and "Never Be You" were both #1 Billboard country singles. Two other tracks rose to the #5 spot on the charts: "Hold On" and "Second to No One."

Track listing

1. "Hold On
   Hold On (Rosanne Cash song)
   "Hold On" is a single written and recorded by American country music artist Rosanne Cash. Released in 1986, it was the third single from the album Rhythm and Romance. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....
   
   " (Rosanne Cash) – 3:36
2. "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me
   I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me
   "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" is a 1985 single by Rosanne Cash, who co-wrote the song with Rodney Crowell. "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" would be Rosanne Cash's fourth number one on the country charts. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of fifteen...
   
   " (Rosanne Cash/Rodney Crowell
   Rodney Crowell
   Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music....
   
   ) – 3:17
3. "Never Be You
   Never Be You
   "Never Be You" is a 1985 single written by Tom Petty and Benmont Tench and recorded by Rosanne Cash. "Never Be You" was Rosanne Cash's fifth number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of 16 weeks on the chart...
   
   " (Benmont Tench
   Benmont Tench
   Benjamin Montmorency Tench, III is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early years:...
   
   /Tom Petty
   Tom Petty
   Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T...
   
   ) – 3:28
4. "Second to No One
   Second to No One
   "Second to No One" is a single written and recorded by American country music artist Rosanne Cash. Released in 1986, it was the fourth single from the album Rhythm and Romance. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....
   
   " (Rosanne Cash) – 3:46
5. "Halfway House" (Rosanne Cash) – 4:24
6. "Pink Bedroom" (John Hiatt
   John Hiatt
   John Hiatt is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards - although he has never won- and has been awarded a variety of other...
   
   ) – 3:09
7. "Never Alone" (Rosanne Cash/Vince Gill
   Vince Gill
   Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
   
   ) – 3:38
8. "My Old Man" (Rosanne Cash) – 2:52
9. "Never Gonna Hurt" (Rosanne Cash) – 3:05
10. "Closing Time" (Rosanne Cash) – 2:49

Personnel

• Rosanne Cash
  Rosanne Cash
  Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin....
  
  : Vocals
• Anton Fig
  Anton Fig
  Anton Fig , known as "The Thunder from Down Under" is a session drummer, noted for his work in David Letterman's house band, the CBS Orchestra. Letterman often refers to Fig as "Anton Zip"or "Buddy Rich Jr."...
  
  : Drums
• Vince Gill
  Vince Gill
  Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
  
  : Background Vocals
• David Hungate
  David Hungate
  David Hungate is a bass player noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977-1982. Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees album of 1976 included Hungate and several other future members of Toto...
  
  : Bass
• Jennifer Kimball
  Jennifer Kimball
  Jennifer Kimball is a vocalist and songwriter who is notable for being part of the acclaimed folk duo The Story. She is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter and has released two albums Veering from the Wave and Oh Hear Us....
  
  : Background Vocals
• Benmont Tench
  Benmont Tench
  Benjamin Montmorency Tench, III is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early years:...
  
  : Electric Piano
• Waddy Wachtel
  Waddy Wachtel
  Robert "Waddy" Wachtel is an American musician, composer and record producer, most notable for his guitar work...
  
  : Electric Guitar
• Larry Crane: Guitar
• Anthony Crawford: Background Vocals
• Patricia Darcy: Background Vocals
• Bob Glaub
  Bob Glaub
  Bob Glaub is an American bass player and session musician. He's played with such artists and bands as Journey, Jackson Browne, Bee Gees, Eric Carmen, Linda Ronstadt, Leo Sayer, Warren Zevon, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, Bonnie Raitt and many others....
  
  : Bass
• Steve Goldstein: Keyboards
• Ula Hedwig: Background Vocals
• Dave Innis: Keyboards
• Paul Leim: Drums
• Randy McCormick: Keyboards
• Robert Sabino: Synthesizer
• Billy Joe Walker: Electric Guitar
• Willie Weeks
  Willie Weeks
  Willie Weeks is an American bass guitarist. He has gained fame performing with famous musicians in a wide variety of genres. He has been one of the most in-demand session musicians throughout his career. Weeks has also gained notoriety touring with many of rock's heavyweights throughout his career...
  
  : Bass

Chart performance

Chart (1985)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	101