Rosanne Cash
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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
.
Although Cash is often classified as a country artist, her music draws on many genres, including folk
, pop
, rock
and blues. In the 1980s, she had a string of chart-topping singles, which crossed musical genres and landed on both C&W and Top 100 charts, the most commercially successful being her 1981 breakthrough hit "Seven Year Ache
", which topped the U.S. country singles charts and reached the Top 30 on the U.S. pop singles charts. In 1990, Cash released Interiors
, a spare, introspective album which signaled a break from her pop country past. The following year Cash ended her marriage and moved from Nashville to New York City
, where she continues to write, record and perform. Since 1991 she has released five albums, written two books and edited a collection of short stories. Her fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times
, Rolling Stone
, The Oxford-American, New York Magazine, and various other periodicals and collections.
She won a Grammy in 1985 for "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me", and has received nine other Grammy nominations. She has had 11 #1 country hit singles, 21 Top 40 country singles and two gold records.
She was portrayed, as a youngster, by Hailey Anne Nelson
in Walk the Line
, the 2005 Academy-award winning film of her father's life.
in 1955, just as father Johnny was recording his first tracks at Sun Records
. The family moved to California
in 1958, first to Los Angeles
, then Ventura
, where Cash and her sisters were raised by mother Vivian. (Vivian and Johnny separated in the early 1960s and divorced in 1966.) After graduating from high school, she joined her father's road show for two and a half years, first as a wardrobe assistant, then as a background vocalist and occasional soloist. In 1976, Cash briefly worked for CBS Records
in London
before returning to Nashville to study English
and drama at Vanderbilt University
, then relocated to Los Angeles
to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Hollywood. She recorded a demo in January 1978 with Emmylou Harris
' songwriter/sideman Rodney Crowell
, which led to a full album with German
label Ariola Records
. She is of Italian, Irish, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry.
, who offered her a recording contract. She began playing with Crowell's band The Cherry Bombs
in California clubs. Crowell and Cash married in 1979, and Cash started work on her first Columbia LP.
The album, Right or Wrong
, was released in early 1980, and produced three Top 25 singles. The first, "No Memories Hangin' Around", a duet with country singer Bobby Bare
, reached 17 on the Country Singles chart in 1979. It was followed by "Couldn't Do Nothin' Right" and "Take Me, Take Me" in 1980. Cash, pregnant with her first child, was unable to tour in support of the album, which was nevertheless a critical success. Cash and Crowell moved to Nashville in 1981.
, in 1981. The album achieved critical raves and solid sales, and the title track
was a #1 hit on the Billboard Country Chart
, and crossed over to the Billboard Pop Chart
, peaking at #22. The album yielded two additional #1 country hits, "My Baby Thinks He's a Train
" and "Blue Moon with Heartache
", and was certified Gold by the RIAA.
Cash's third album, Somewhere in the Stars
(1982), was considered a disappointment after the commercial success of Seven Year Ache. The album still reached the Top 100 of the U.S. pop album charts, and included three U.S. country chart singles, "Ain't No Money", "I Wonder" and "It Hasn't Happened Yet". Cash struggled with substance abuse
during this time, and in 1984 she sought medical treatment.
After a three-year hiatus, Cash released her fourth studio album, Rhythm & Romance
(1985), which yielded two #1 hits, "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me
" and "Never Be You
", and two other Country Top 10 singles, "Hold On" and "Second to No One". Rhythm & Romance drew high critical praise for its fusion of country and pop. "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" won the 1985 Grammy award
for Best Female Country Vocal Performance; "Hold On" won the 1987 Robert J. Burton Award from BMI
as the Most Performed Song of the Year.
In the '80s, Cash curtailed her touring for childbearing and raising a family (three daughters with Crowell, as well as Crowell's daughter by his first marriage, Hannah). She continued to record and in 1987 released the most critically acclaimed album of her career, King's Record Shop
. It spawned four #1 hits, including a cover version of her father's "Tennessee Flat Top Box
", John Hiatt's "The Way We Make a Broken Heart
", "If You Change Your Mind
", John Stewart's "Runaway Train", and became Cash's second gold album. In 1988 Cash recorded a duet with Crowell, "It's Such a Small World
" (released on his Diamonds & Dirt
album), which also went to #1 on the country charts, and Cash was named Billboard's Top Singles Artist of the year.
In 1989, Columbia released her first compilation album, Hits 1979–1989. The album yielded two new hit singles, the Beatles cover "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
", which landed at #1 on the Billboard country charts, and "Black and White", which earned Cash her fifth Grammy nomination.
. Cash produced herself for the first time, and wrote or co-wrote all the songs. "Her brutally dark take on intimate relationships was reflected throughout and made clear the marital problems that had been hinted at on earlier albums." "Highly autobiographical (though Cash has often insisted it isn't quite as true to life as everyone assumes), Interiors was a brilliant, introspective album" and "her masterpiece". Other critics called it "maudlin" and "pessimistic". Interiors topped many best album lists in 1990, and received a Grammy award nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album. It yielded one Top 40 single ("What We Really Want"), and marked the beginning of sharp commercial decline for Cash.
Though it may have been inspired by the breakup of her marriage, it also signified her departure from Nashville and its country music establishment. In 1991 Cash relocated to New York City
; in 1992, she and Crowell divorced. The Wheel
, released in 1993, was "an unflinchingly confessional examination of the marriage's failure that ranked as her most musically diverse effort to date". The album was Cash's last for Columbia Records. It received considerable acclaim from critics, though neither of its two singles, "The Wheel" or "You Won't Let Me In", charted.
, and in 1995 married producer/songwriter/guitarist John Leventhal
, with whom she had co-produced The Wheel. She signed with Capitol Records
, and in 1996 released 10 Song Demo
, a collection of stark home recordings with minimal accompaniment. She also pursued a career as a writer, and in 1996 Hyperion
published her short story collection Bodies of Water, to favorable reviews. In 1997, Cash was awarded an honorary doctorate
from Memphis College of Art
. She gave the commencement address that year and continues to work with college master classes in writing and speak to women's groups.
In 1998, she and Leventhal began working on what would later become Rules of Travel. The recording sessions were cut short when she became pregnant and was unable to sing for two and a half years, due to a polyp
on her vocal cords.
Unable to record, Cash focused on her writing. Her children's book Penelope Jane: A Fairy's Tale, which included an exclusive CD, was published by Harper Collins in 2000, and in 2001 she edited a collection of short fiction by songwriters titled Songs Without Rhyme: Prose by Celebrated Songwriters. Recovering her voice, she resumed recording and in 2003, released Rules of Travel
, her first full-fledged studio album for Capitol. The album had guest appearances by Sheryl Crow
and Steve Earle
, a song co-written by Joe Henry
and Jakob Dylan
, and the poignant "September When It Comes", a duet with her father. Rules Of Travel was nominated for a 2003 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
Cash was also an inaugural member of the Independent Music Awards'
judging panel to support independent artists.
In 2005, Legacy Recordings
reissued Seven Year Ache (1981), King's Record Shop (1987), and Interiors (1990), plus a new collection spanning 1979–2003, The Very Best Of Rosanne Cash.
In 2006, Cash released Black Cadillac
, an album marked by the loss of her stepmother, June, and father, Johnny, who both died in 2003; and her mother, Vivian, Johnny's first wife, who died as Rosanne finished the album in 2005. The album was critically praised, and named to the Top 10 lists of the New York Times, Billboard, PopMatters, NPR and other general interest and music publications. The album was nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.
Cash toured extensively in support of the album, and created a multimedia
performance, with video, imagery and narration drawn from the songs and from Cash's family history. In 2006, a short documentary by filmmaker Steve Lippman, "Mariners and Musicians", based on the album and interviews with Cash, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival
and was screened at festivals worldwide. Cash's music was also featured prominently in an American Masters
biography of photographer Annie Leibovitz
, who has photographed Cash and her family numerous times.
In late 2007, Cash underwent brain surgery for a rare condition (Chiari I malformation
) and was forced to cancel her remaining concert dates. After a successful recovery, she resumed writing and live appearances. In 2008 she wrote for Measure for Measure, the songwriters' column in The New York Times, recorded with Kris Kristofferson
and Elvis Costello
, and appeared on Costello's TV series Spectacle.
Cash released her next studio album, entitled The List
, on October 6, 2009. The album is based on a list of 100 greatest country and American songs that Johnny Cash gave her when she was 18. Cash picked 12 songs out of the 100 for the album. The album features vocal duets with Bruce Springsteen
, Elvis Costello, Jeff Tweedy
, and Rufus Wainwright
. An iTunes Store
-only 13th song features a duet with Neko Case
.
In addition to her own recordings, Cash has made guest appearances on albums by Rodney Crowell
, Guy Clark
, Vince Gill
, Lyle Lovett
, Mary Chapin Carpenter
, Marc Cohn
, The Chieftains
, John Stewart, Willy Mason
, Mike Doughty
, and others, as well as children's albums by Larry Kirwan
, Tom Chapin
, and Dan Zanes and Friends
. She has also appeared on tribute albums to Johnny Cash
, Kris Kristofferson
, Bob Dylan
, The Band
, Tammy Wynette
, Doc Pomus
, Laura Nyro
, Yoko Ono
, John Hiatt
and Jimi Hendrix
.
In December 2009, it was announced that Cash would be portraying Monique in the upcoming album Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
, a collaboration between rock singer John Mellencamp
and novelist Stephen King
.
in 1954. She has three younger sisters, Kathy, Cindy and Tara. Johnny and Vivian divorced in 1966, and he married June Carter
in 1968. Cash's stepsisters are country singers Carlene Carter
and Rosie Nix Adams
, also known as Rosey Carter, June Carter's daughters from her first two marriages. Johnny and June's son John Carter Cash
is Rosanne's half brother. Cash's father died in 2003; her mother died in 2005.
Cash married country music singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell
in 1979. They have three daughters: Caitlin, Chelsea and Carrie. Cash also raised Crowell's daughter, Hannah, from a previous marriage. Cash and Crowell divorced in 1992. She married her second husband, John Leventhal
, in 1995, and they have one son, Jakob. Cash lives with her husband, son and youngest daughter in Chelsea, Manhattan
.
Cash is active on behalf of SOS Children's Villages
, which houses and cares for orphaned and abandoned children. The Cash family are long-term supporters of SOS. In the 1970s Johnny and June Cash donated property and financed the construction of a family house in Jamaica
for SOS, and after their deaths the family established a memorial fund to benefit their work. In 2004, Cash accepted the SOS Children's Champion Award on behalf of her father for the Cash family's support of SOS Children's Villages. Cash sponsors a child through SOS.
She also sponsors three children through Children, Incorporated
, which works to support and educate needy children and young adults worldwide.
United States
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singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
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and author
Author
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. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
singer Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin
Vivian Liberto
Vivian Dorraine Liberto Cash Distin was an American homemaker who was the first wife of country singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, and the mother of singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash....
.
Although Cash is often classified as a country artist, her music draws on many genres, including folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
, pop
Pop music
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, rock
Rock music
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and blues. In the 1980s, she had a string of chart-topping singles, which crossed musical genres and landed on both C&W and Top 100 charts, the most commercially successful being her 1981 breakthrough hit "Seven Year Ache
Seven Year Ache (song)
"Seven Year Ache" is a country music song written and released as a single by American country artist Rosanne Cash in 1981. It was the lead single off Cash's album of the same name as well as her first #1 hit on the country charts.-Song information:...
", which topped the U.S. country singles charts and reached the Top 30 on the U.S. pop singles charts. In 1990, Cash released Interiors
Interiors (Rosanne Cash album)
Not particularly country-sounding, the introspective Interiors was seen by a number of critics and fans as a personal catharsis for Rosanne Cash; shortly after its release, she broke up with husband and longtime producer Rodney Crowell. In a first, Cash produced the album herself, and all of the...
, a spare, introspective album which signaled a break from her pop country past. The following year Cash ended her marriage and moved from Nashville to New York City
New York City
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, where she continues to write, record and perform. Since 1991 she has released five albums, written two books and edited a collection of short stories. Her fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times
The New York Times
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, Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
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, The Oxford-American, New York Magazine, and various other periodicals and collections.
She won a Grammy in 1985 for "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me", and has received nine other Grammy nominations. She has had 11 #1 country hit singles, 21 Top 40 country singles and two gold records.
She was portrayed, as a youngster, by Hailey Anne Nelson
Hailey Anne Nelson
Hailey Anne Nelson is an American actress.-Career:After commencing her career at age 5 in various stage performances, Nelson starred in the Tim Burton film Big Fish as Jenny , alongside Ewan McGregor, Danny DeVito, Steve Buscemi, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, and Miley Cyrus...
in Walk the Line
Walk the Line
Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash...
, the 2005 Academy-award winning film of her father's life.
Early life
Cash was born in Memphis, TennesseeMemphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
in 1955, just as father Johnny was recording his first tracks at Sun Records
Sun Records
Sun Records is a record label founded in Memphis, Tennessee, starting operations on March 27, 1952.Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash...
. The family moved to California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
in 1958, first to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, then Ventura
Ventura, California
Ventura is the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States, incorporated in 1866. The population was 106,433 at the 2010 census, up from 100,916 at the 2000 census. Ventura is accessible via U.S...
, where Cash and her sisters were raised by mother Vivian. (Vivian and Johnny separated in the early 1960s and divorced in 1966.) After graduating from high school, she joined her father's road show for two and a half years, first as a wardrobe assistant, then as a background vocalist and occasional soloist. In 1976, Cash briefly worked for CBS Records
CBS Records
CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...
in London
London
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before returning to Nashville to study English
English literature
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and drama at Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...
, then relocated to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Hollywood. She recorded a demo in January 1978 with Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
' songwriter/sideman 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....
, which led to a full album with German
Germany
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label Ariola Records
Ariola Records
Ariola Records is a German record label. As of the late 1980s, it was a subsidiary label of BMG which in turn has since become a part of the international media conglomerate Sony Music Entertainment...
. She is of Italian, Irish, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry.
1978–1980: First American release
Her self-titled debut album was recorded in 1978, but Ariola never released it in the United States, and it has since become a collector's item. Mainly recorded and produced in Munich, Germany with German-based musicians, it also included three tracks recorded in Nashville and produced by Crowell. Though Cash was unhappy with the album, it attracted the attention of Columbia RecordsColumbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
, who offered her a recording contract. She began playing with Crowell's band The Cherry Bombs
The Notorious Cherry Bombs
The Notorious Cherry Bombs, originally called The Cherry Bombs, was an American country music supergroup founded by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell in 1980. A former member of Emmylou Harris's Hot Band, Crowell picked several former Hot Band members as his backing band, which he named The Cherry...
in California clubs. Crowell and Cash married in 1979, and Cash started work on her first Columbia LP.
The album, Right or Wrong
Right or Wrong (Rosanne Cash album)
Generally accepted as Rosanne Cash's début album, Right or Wrong was actually second to the obscure Rosanne Cash . The three highest charting Billboard country tracks were "Couldn't Do Nothin' Right" at #15, "No Memories Hangin' 'Round", a duet with Bobby Bare, at #17, and "Take Me, Take Me" at...
, was released in early 1980, and produced three Top 25 singles. The first, "No Memories Hangin' Around", a duet with country singer Bobby Bare
Bobby Bare
Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:...
, reached 17 on the Country Singles chart in 1979. It was followed by "Couldn't Do Nothin' Right" and "Take Me, Take Me" in 1980. Cash, pregnant with her first child, was unable to tour in support of the album, which was nevertheless a critical success. Cash and Crowell moved to Nashville in 1981.
1981–1989: Critical and commercial success
Cash's career picked up considerable momentum with the release of her second album, Seven Year AcheSeven Year Ache
Seven Year Ache was Rosanne Cash's second album, released in 1981. It was produced by her then-husband Rodney Crowell and reached number one on the Billboard country album chart. Three of its tracks were also number one in the U.S. country singles category: "Seven Year Ache" Seven Year Ache was...
, in 1981. The album achieved critical raves and solid sales, and the title track
Seven Year Ache (song)
"Seven Year Ache" is a country music song written and released as a single by American country artist Rosanne Cash in 1981. It was the lead single off Cash's album of the same name as well as her first #1 hit on the country charts.-Song information:...
was a #1 hit on the Billboard Country Chart
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
, and crossed over to the Billboard Pop Chart
Billboard Hot 100
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, peaking at #22. The album yielded two additional #1 country hits, "My Baby Thinks He's a Train
My Baby Thinks He's a Train
"My Baby Thinks He's a Train" is a song written by Leroy Preston and a 1981 single by Rosanne Cash. "My Baby Thinks He's a Train" would be Rosanne Cash's second number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country...
" and "Blue Moon with Heartache
Blue Moon with Heartache
"Blue Moon with Heartache" is a 1982 single written and recorded by Rosanne Cash. "Blue Moon with Heartache" was Rosanne Cash's third number one country hit. The single would stay at number one for a single week and spend a total of 11 weeks on the chart ....
", and was certified Gold by the RIAA.
Cash's third album, Somewhere in the Stars
Somewhere in the Stars
Somewhere in the Stars is the 4th album by Rosanne Cash. It produced three Billboard hits in the country top 20, including the #4 "Ain't No Money", the #8 "I Wonder", and the #14 "It Hasn't Happened Yet"...
(1982), was considered a disappointment after the commercial success of Seven Year Ache. The album still reached the Top 100 of the U.S. pop album charts, and included three U.S. country chart singles, "Ain't No Money", "I Wonder" and "It Hasn't Happened Yet". Cash struggled with substance abuse
Substance abuse
A substance-related disorder is an umbrella term used to describe several different conditions associated with several different substances .A substance related disorder is a condition in which an individual uses or abuses a...
during this time, and in 1984 she sought medical treatment.
After a three-year hiatus, Cash released her fourth studio album, Rhythm & Romance
Rhythm & Romance
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 for Best Country Vocal Performance by a female artist. That song and "Never Be You" were both...
(1985), which yielded two #1 hits, "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...
" and "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...
", and two other Country Top 10 singles, "Hold On" and "Second to No One". Rhythm & Romance drew high critical praise for its fusion of country and pop. "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 Female Country Vocal Performance; "Hold On" won the 1987 Robert J. Burton Award from BMI
Broadcast Music Incorporated
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as the Most Performed Song of the Year.
In the '80s, Cash curtailed her touring for childbearing and raising a family (three daughters with Crowell, as well as Crowell's daughter by his first marriage, Hannah). She continued to record and in 1987 released the most critically acclaimed album of her career, King's Record Shop
King's Record Shop
Although it was not Rosanne Cash's highest charting album at #6, King's Record Shop had the most singles topping the country charts. No fewer than four of its tracks placed #1 on the Billboard country singles chart...
. It spawned four #1 hits, including a cover version of her father's "Tennessee Flat Top Box
Tennessee Flat Top Box
"Tennessee Flat Top Box" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Johnny Cash. It was released as a single in late 1961, reaching 11 on the Billboard country singles charts and 84 on the pop charts...
", John Hiatt's "The Way We Make a Broken Heart
The Way We Make a Broken Heart
"The Way We Make a Broken Heart" is a song written by John Hiatt. It was recorded by Ry Cooder in 1980 on his album Borderline. "The Way We Make a Broken Heart" was covered by both John Hiatt and Rosanne Cash in 1983 as a duet. The single was produced by Scott Mathews and Ron Nagle, however,...
", "If You Change Your Mind
If You Change Your Mind
"If You Change Your Mind" is a 1988 single by Rosanne Cash, who co-wrote the song with Hank DeVito. "If You Change Your Mind" was Rosanne Cash's ninth number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the country chart.-Chart...
", John Stewart's "Runaway Train", and became Cash's second gold album. In 1988 Cash recorded a duet with Crowell, "It's Such a Small World
It's Such a Small World
"It's Such a Small World" is a duet by American country music artists Rodney Crowell and Rosanne Cash, released in January 1988. "It's Such a Small World" was the lead-off single to Crowell's Diamonds and Dirt album, which charted five No...
" (released on his Diamonds & Dirt
Diamonds & Dirt
Diamonds & Dirt is the title of an album released in 1988 by American singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell . His fifth studio album, it was also his second release for the Columbia Records label. The album was also his most successful, achieving RIAA gold certification...
album), which also went to #1 on the country charts, and Cash was named Billboard's Top Singles Artist of the year.
In 1989, Columbia released her first compilation album, Hits 1979–1989. The album yielded two new hit singles, the Beatles cover "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
"I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" is a song by The Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was released on the album Beatles for Sale in the United Kingdom in 1964. In the United States, Capitol released the song on the Beatles VI album and also as the B-side...
", which landed at #1 on the Billboard country charts, and "Black and White", which earned Cash her fifth Grammy nomination.
1990–1995: Break up, relocation
In 1990, Cash released the critically acclaimed, deeply personal InteriorsInteriors (Rosanne Cash album)
Not particularly country-sounding, the introspective Interiors was seen by a number of critics and fans as a personal catharsis for Rosanne Cash; shortly after its release, she broke up with husband and longtime producer Rodney Crowell. In a first, Cash produced the album herself, and all of the...
. Cash produced herself for the first time, and wrote or co-wrote all the songs. "Her brutally dark take on intimate relationships was reflected throughout and made clear the marital problems that had been hinted at on earlier albums." "Highly autobiographical (though Cash has often insisted it isn't quite as true to life as everyone assumes), Interiors was a brilliant, introspective album" and "her masterpiece". Other critics called it "maudlin" and "pessimistic". Interiors topped many best album lists in 1990, and received a Grammy award nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album. It yielded one Top 40 single ("What We Really Want"), and marked the beginning of sharp commercial decline for Cash.
Though it may have been inspired by the breakup of her marriage, it also signified her departure from Nashville and its country music establishment. In 1991 Cash relocated to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
; in 1992, she and Crowell divorced. The Wheel
The Wheel
The Wheel is an album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash. Most of the songs on the album reflected Cash's feelings on embarking on a new relationship after the dissolution of her marriage to Rodney Crowell...
, released in 1993, was "an unflinchingly confessional examination of the marriage's failure that ranked as her most musically diverse effort to date". The album was Cash's last for Columbia Records. It received considerable acclaim from critics, though neither of its two singles, "The Wheel" or "You Won't Let Me In", charted.
1995–present: New York, new albums and books
Cash settled in lower ManhattanManhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, and in 1995 married producer/songwriter/guitarist John Leventhal
John Leventhal
John Leventhal is a Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for Michelle Branch, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Joan Osborne, Loudon Wainwright, The Wreckers and many others...
, with whom she had co-produced The Wheel. She signed with Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
, and in 1996 released 10 Song Demo
10 Song Demo
10 Song Demo is a 1996 album by Rosanne Cash, produced by her husband, John Leventhal. The album, her first for Capitol Records after having left Columbia, her label for fourteen years, included mostly stripped down acoustic tracks...
, a collection of stark home recordings with minimal accompaniment. She also pursued a career as a writer, and in 1996 Hyperion
Hyperion (publisher)
Hyperion Books is a general-interest book publishing part of the Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1991. Hyperion publishes general-interest fiction and non-fiction books for adults under the following imprints: ABC Daytime Press, ESPN Books,...
published her short story collection Bodies of Water, to favorable reviews. In 1997, Cash was awarded an honorary doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
from Memphis College of Art
Memphis College of Art
Memphis College of Art, known before 1985 as the Memphis Academy of Arts, is a small, private college of art and design located in Memphis, Tennessee's Overton Park adjacent to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. It offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts in Art Education...
. She gave the commencement address that year and continues to work with college master classes in writing and speak to women's groups.
In 1998, she and Leventhal began working on what would later become Rules of Travel. The recording sessions were cut short when she became pregnant and was unable to sing for two and a half years, due to a polyp
Polyp
A polyp in zoology is one of two forms found in the phylum Cnidaria, the other being the medusa. Polyps are approximately cylindrical in shape and elongated at the axis of the body...
on her vocal cords.
Unable to record, Cash focused on her writing. Her children's book Penelope Jane: A Fairy's Tale, which included an exclusive CD, was published by Harper Collins in 2000, and in 2001 she edited a collection of short fiction by songwriters titled Songs Without Rhyme: Prose by Celebrated Songwriters. Recovering her voice, she resumed recording and in 2003, released Rules of Travel
Rules of Travel
-Track listing:#"Beautiful Pain" – 2:50#"44 Stories" – 3:19#"I'll Change for You" – 3:50#"Rules of Travel" – 3:54...
, her first full-fledged studio album for Capitol. The album had guest appearances by Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...
and Steve Earle
Steve Earle
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
, a song co-written by Joe Henry
Joe Henry
Joseph Lee "Joe" Henry is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Henry's musical style spans several genres, including alt. country, rock, jazz and folk.- Early years :...
and Jakob Dylan
Jakob Dylan
Jakob Luke Dylan is the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and is a son of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and Sara Dylan. He has also recorded two solo albums.-Personal life:...
, and the poignant "September When It Comes", a duet with her father. Rules Of Travel was nominated for a 2003 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
Cash was also an inaugural member of the Independent Music Awards'
The Independent Music Awards
The Independent Music Awards is an international program that honors top-ranked independent artists and releases in more than 50 Album, Song, Music Video and Design categories....
judging panel to support independent artists.
In 2005, Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings is Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division. It was founded in 1990 by CBS Records under the leadership of Jerry Shulman, Richard Bauer, Gary Pacheco and Amy Herot to handle reissues of recordings from the vast catalogues of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated...
reissued Seven Year Ache (1981), King's Record Shop (1987), and Interiors (1990), plus a new collection spanning 1979–2003, The Very Best Of Rosanne Cash.
Black Cadillac
Black Cadillac is an album by Rosanne Cash, released in 2006. The album was a reflection on the passing of Cash's mother, Vivian Liberto, father, Johnny Cash, and her stepmother, June Carter Cash, who all died within a two-year period...
, an album marked by the loss of her stepmother, June, and father, Johnny, who both died in 2003; and her mother, Vivian, Johnny's first wife, who died as Rosanne finished the album in 2005. The album was critically praised, and named to the Top 10 lists of the New York Times, Billboard, PopMatters, NPR and other general interest and music publications. The album was nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.
Cash toured extensively in support of the album, and created a multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
performance, with video, imagery and narration drawn from the songs and from Cash's family history. In 2006, a short documentary by filmmaker Steve Lippman, "Mariners and Musicians", based on the album and interviews with Cash, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
and was screened at festivals worldwide. Cash's music was also featured prominently in an American Masters
American Masters
American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on the artists, actors and writers of the United States who have left a profound impact on the nation's popular culture. It is produced by WNET in New York City...
biography of photographer Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer.-Early life and education:Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants, from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's...
, who has photographed Cash and her family numerous times.
In late 2007, Cash underwent brain surgery for a rare condition (Chiari I malformation
Arnold-Chiari malformation
Arnold–Chiari malformation, or often simply Chiari malformation, is a malformation of the brain. It consists of a downward displacement of the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum , sometimes causing non-communicating hydrocephalus as a result of obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid outflow...
) and was forced to cancel her remaining concert dates. After a successful recovery, she resumed writing and live appearances. In 2008 she wrote for Measure for Measure, the songwriters' column in The New York Times, recorded with Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
and Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
, and appeared on Costello's TV series Spectacle.
Cash released her next studio album, entitled The List
The List (album)
-Personnel:*Rosanne Cash – vocals*Bruce Springsteen – vocals*Jeff Tweedy – vocals*Rufus Wainwright – vocals*Elvis Costello – vocals*Joe Bonadio – drums*Zev Katz – bass...
, on October 6, 2009. The album is based on a list of 100 greatest country and American songs that Johnny Cash gave her when she was 18. Cash picked 12 songs out of the 100 for the album. The album features vocal duets with Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
, Elvis Costello, Jeff Tweedy
Jeff Tweedy
Jeffrey Scot "Jeff" Tweedy is an American songwriter, musician and leader of the band Wilco. Tweedy joined rockabilly band The Plebes with high school friend Jay Farrar in the early 1980s, but Tweedy's musical interests caused one of Farrar's brothers to quit...
, and Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:...
. An iTunes Store
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...
-only 13th song features a duet with Neko Case
Neko Case
Neko Case is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers....
.
In addition to her own recordings, Cash has made guest appearances on albums by 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....
, Guy Clark
Guy Clark
Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....
, 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...
, Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man"...
, Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer...
, Marc Cohn
Marc Cohn
Marc Craig Cohn is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician.- Personal life :Cohn was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Beachwood High School in Beachwood, a Cleveland suburb. He then attended Oberlin College....
, The Chieftains
The Chieftains
The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...
, John Stewart, Willy Mason
Willy Mason
Willy Mason is an American singer-songwriter.- Early life :He was born in New York, the son of Jemima James and Michael Mason, both folk singers. When Mason was five, he and his family moved from New York to West Tisbury, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard...
, Mike Doughty
Mike Doughty
Mike Doughty is an American indie and alternative rock singer-songwriter. He led the band Soul Coughing in the 1990s, and in the 2000s, became a solo artist...
, and others, as well as children's albums by Larry Kirwan
Larry Kirwan
Larry Kirwan is an expatriate Irish writer and musician, most noted as the lead singer for the New York based Irish rock band, Black 47....
, Tom Chapin
Tom Chapin
Tom Chapin is a Grammy Award-winning American musician, entertainer, singer-songwriter and storyteller.-Biography:Chapin attended State University of New York at Plattsburgh and graduated in 1966. From 1971-1976, he hosted a TV show called Make a Wish...
, and Dan Zanes and Friends
Dan Zanes and Friends
-History:When Dan Zanes and his wife had a baby, they moved to New York City. Zanes subsequently began playing music with a group of fathers that he had met in West Village playgrounds who were also there with their kids...
. She has also appeared on tribute albums to Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
, Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
, Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
, The Band
The Band
The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group. The original group consisted of Rick Danko , Garth Hudson , Richard Manuel , and Robbie Robertson , and Levon Helm...
, Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette
Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
, Doc Pomus
Doc Pomus
Jerome Solon Felder, better known as Doc Pomus , was a twentieth-century American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lyricist of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the category of non-performer in 1992. He was also inducted into...
, Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved considerable critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry, and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The 5th...
, Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
, 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...
and Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
.
In December 2009, it was announced that Cash would be portraying Monique in the upcoming album Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
-Album release:The plan is to release a three-CD/book package featuring major artists performing Mellencamp's songs, and the book will contain the play's dialogue. According to Rolling Stone, two of those artists will be Elvis Costello and Neko Case. It was later announced that Kris Kristofferson,...
, a collaboration between rock singer John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock that eschews synthesizers and other artificial sounds...
and novelist Stephen King
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
.
Family
Cash's parents, Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto, were married in San Antonio, TexasSan Antonio, Texas
San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
in 1954. She has three younger sisters, Kathy, Cindy and Tara. Johnny and Vivian divorced in 1966, and he married June Carter
June Carter Cash
Valerie June Carter Cash was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, comedienne and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash...
in 1968. Cash's stepsisters are country singers Carlene Carter
Carlene Carter
Carlene Carter is an American country singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of June Carter and her first husband, Carl Smith....
and Rosie Nix Adams
Rosie Nix Adams
Rozanna Lea "Rosey" Nix was an American singer-songwriter. She was born July 13, 1958, the daughter of June Carter Cash and her second husband Edwin "Rip" Nix, and the stepdaughter of the famous country singer Johnny Cash...
, also known as Rosey Carter, June Carter's daughters from her first two marriages. Johnny and June's son John Carter Cash
John Carter Cash
John Carter Cash is an American Country music-singer, author, songwriter and producer. He is the only son of Johnny and June Carter Cash.-Biography:...
is Rosanne's half brother. Cash's father died in 2003; her mother died in 2005.
Cash married country music singer-songwriter 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....
in 1979. They have three daughters: Caitlin, Chelsea and Carrie. Cash also raised Crowell's daughter, Hannah, from a previous marriage. Cash and Crowell divorced in 1992. She married her second husband, John Leventhal
John Leventhal
John Leventhal is a Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for Michelle Branch, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Joan Osborne, Loudon Wainwright, The Wreckers and many others...
, in 1995, and they have one son, Jakob. Cash lives with her husband, son and youngest daughter in Chelsea, Manhattan
Chelsea, Manhattan
Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The district's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, 30th Street to the north, the western boundary of the Ladies' Mile Historic District – which lies between the Avenue of the Americas and...
.
Chiari malformation
On November 27, 2007, Cash was admitted to New York’s Presbyterian Hospital for brain surgery. In a press statement, she announced that she suffered from Chiari Malformation Type I and expected to "make a full recovery". The surgery was successful, though recovery was slow, and in March 2008 she was forced to cancel her spring tour dates for further recuperation. She wrote about the experience in her New York Times article "Well, Actually, It Is Brain Surgery". She resumed writing, recording and performing in late summer of 2008.Other projects
Cash supports several charitable organizations. She is a longtime board member of PAX, an organization dedicating to preventing gun violence among children. She was honored by PAX at their fifth annual benefit gala in 2005.Cash is active on behalf of SOS Children's Villages
SOS Children's Villages
SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental international development organisation which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children since 1949. It was founded by Hermann Gmeiner in Imst, Austria...
, which houses and cares for orphaned and abandoned children. The Cash family are long-term supporters of SOS. In the 1970s Johnny and June Cash donated property and financed the construction of a family house in Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
for SOS, and after their deaths the family established a memorial fund to benefit their work. In 2004, Cash accepted the SOS Children's Champion Award on behalf of her father for the Cash family's support of SOS Children's Villages. Cash sponsors a child through SOS.
She also sponsors three children through Children, Incorporated
Children, Incorporated
Children, Incorporated is a non-profit 501 international child sponsorship organization based in Richmond, Virginia.Children, Incorporated was founded in 1964 by Jeanne Clarke Wood, daughter of the noted philanthropists Dr. and Mrs. J...
, which works to support and educate needy children and young adults worldwide.
Discography
- 1978: Rosanne CashRosanne Cash (album)Rosanne Cash is the debut album of American country music artist Rosanne Cash, recorded and released in 1978 in Germany. It received little notice and was never released in the United States...
- 1979: Right or WrongRight or Wrong (Rosanne Cash album)Generally accepted as Rosanne Cash's début album, Right or Wrong was actually second to the obscure Rosanne Cash . The three highest charting Billboard country tracks were "Couldn't Do Nothin' Right" at #15, "No Memories Hangin' 'Round", a duet with Bobby Bare, at #17, and "Take Me, Take Me" at...
- 1981: Seven Year AcheSeven Year AcheSeven Year Ache was Rosanne Cash's second album, released in 1981. It was produced by her then-husband Rodney Crowell and reached number one on the Billboard country album chart. Three of its tracks were also number one in the U.S. country singles category: "Seven Year Ache" Seven Year Ache was...
- 1982: Somewhere in the StarsSomewhere in the StarsSomewhere in the Stars is the 4th album by Rosanne Cash. It produced three Billboard hits in the country top 20, including the #4 "Ain't No Money", the #8 "I Wonder", and the #14 "It Hasn't Happened Yet"...
- 1985: Rhythm & RomanceRhythm & RomanceRhythm & 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 for Best Country Vocal Performance by a female artist. That song and "Never Be You" were both...
- 1987: King's Record ShopKing's Record ShopAlthough it was not Rosanne Cash's highest charting album at #6, King's Record Shop had the most singles topping the country charts. No fewer than four of its tracks placed #1 on the Billboard country singles chart...
- 1990: InteriorsInteriors (Rosanne Cash album)Not particularly country-sounding, the introspective Interiors was seen by a number of critics and fans as a personal catharsis for Rosanne Cash; shortly after its release, she broke up with husband and longtime producer Rodney Crowell. In a first, Cash produced the album herself, and all of the...
- 1993: The WheelThe WheelThe Wheel is an album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash. Most of the songs on the album reflected Cash's feelings on embarking on a new relationship after the dissolution of her marriage to Rodney Crowell...
- 1996: 10 Song Demo10 Song Demo10 Song Demo is a 1996 album by Rosanne Cash, produced by her husband, John Leventhal. The album, her first for Capitol Records after having left Columbia, her label for fourteen years, included mostly stripped down acoustic tracks...
- 2003: Rules of TravelRules of Travel-Track listing:#"Beautiful Pain" – 2:50#"44 Stories" – 3:19#"I'll Change for You" – 3:50#"Rules of Travel" – 3:54...
- 2006: Black CadillacBlack CadillacBlack Cadillac is an album by Rosanne Cash, released in 2006. The album was a reflection on the passing of Cash's mother, Vivian Liberto, father, Johnny Cash, and her stepmother, June Carter Cash, who all died within a two-year period...
- 2009: The ListThe List (album)-Personnel:*Rosanne Cash – vocals*Bruce Springsteen – vocals*Jeff Tweedy – vocals*Rufus Wainwright – vocals*Elvis Costello – vocals*Joe Bonadio – drums*Zev Katz – bass...