Rosanne Cash, classic or dud?

I'll bet that is really good! I'll add it to my list.

Reading the memoir now. I didn't realize she and her dad were always so close; I'd gotten the impression they only reconciled in the last ten years.

<3 her so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2nWIUWl2E

I saw Rosanne and her band play her new album The River & The Thread straight through live at the Library of Congress last night, then they did songs from her last album The List.

The new album live was pleasant enough though it did not wow me.
Cash and guitarist husband John Levanthal recently traveled the southern states and spent time in Arkansas helping to restore the boyhood home of her father, Johnny Cash. She threw in all kinds of lyrical mentions of the south-- Emmett Till, Robert Johnson and the Crossroads, some ones I knew less about(a spot in Arkansas where there was an earthquake way back when).

Some of the additional covers she did (which sounded better crafted than her her new stuff. Although since it was my first time hearing the new stuff I guess i need to give it another chance when the album comes out):
Long Black Veil"
"I'm Movin' On"
""Girl From the North Country"
"Ode to Billie Joe"
"Heartaches by the Number"

Among all the Southern Americana talk and lyrics, Rosanne briefly mentioned between songs that she was going "to bow to the audience after every song just like Elton John did when she saw him at the Garden last night"

So far, seems like new albums got three really good originals in the middle ("Night School" is awesome)(a fourth, "Tell Heaven", is a welcome stylistic exercise). Haven't received the two covers yet, by Townes Van Zandt and Jesse Winchester (might be some special edition). Looking fwd to her vocal presence x their songs, and wish she didn't depend so much on her own writing here --songwriting, that is; I got more from her memoir in the new Oxford American.I dunno; I'll keep listening. She's still got the voice, for sure.

I liked how some of the new songs sounded when Rosanne played them the second night of her residency at the Library of Congress, with hubby Leventhal on guitar, ex-hubby Rodney Crowell also on guitar and vocals, Amy Helm on mandolin and vocals, and Cory Chisel on vocals and guitar.
They also sang together "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "I'll Fly Away," and more.

Found out tonight that she released her first album in Germany only, even though three of its tracks later appeared on Right or Wrong (which is what I'd always assumed was her first album).

Listening to it now. She's still a little green in 1978 for sure, but it's totally decent work.

I've got her book. I guess I should read it sometime soon, huh?

So many books to read...I never got to this one either

anyone catch her four-night stint with Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams?

It was easy coming up with a top twenty-five.

i know people tend to take or leave interiors itt but idk, the line between it and king's record shop isn't so defined for me! "land of nightmares" and "paralyzed" give me end-of-the-world chills.

anyway i have a real hard time picking my favorite rosanne record between it, king's, and rhythm & romance

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/25/659621031/first-listen-rosanne-cash-she-remembers-everything

i am really enjoying this

last four songs are absolutely crushing

duet with elvis costello and kris kristofferson about gun violence kinda stops the album dead at track three but maybe i'll get used to it

Between Pistol Annies and Alex Anwandter I've forgotten Cash. What's the sound? No hope of hearing loud synths, right?

no of course not. sound is still trapped in interiors/the wheel. the writing is sharp as ever

Ends with a cover of that True Detective S2 "My Least Favorite Life"! (No synths.)

i keep wanting to make a poll for king's record shop but also wonder if anyone would vote

i also picked up her memoir when i was in nashville and i'm gonna read it as soon as i finish doctor faustus (soon) (i hope)

Just got “7 year itch” on vinyl and it’s great

Her memoir's good but like all eighties survivors she has different standards about what works: she's contemptuous of Rhythm and Romance, often to my ears her second best album.

i expect no artist to have the same ideas about their work as i do

The memoir's best when she addresses her dad. She's a solid writer.

Rhythm and Romance is the best new wave album.

Rhythm and Romance is the best new wave album.

hah yeah, I was just taken by "Never Be You" and of course listened to the whole album as a result, and now put it on again. Every song expresses anxiety from a distinct perspective. "lovers all have to stand trial" indeed.

The guitars here stomp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihyHTKqBU5Q

yes, that's the song playing right now on this second playthrough of the day. I'm guessing she wrote it after receiving "Never Be You" from Petty & Tench, since the choruses sound alike.

Never knew about her crazy health problems before she made The List. Also, did she ever find “The List”?

next album, but "Runaway Train" is so beautiful. I can hear Springsteen recording it...or even her dad on one of those latter day albums.

We haven't even talked about this one, a perfect song from the flickering synth to the conceit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4aQPFM1shc

oh man "Halfway House" is fantastic. I think about all the drugs she was taking in this era, and how bad her life sounds in these songs (even if a writer doesn't talk about her own life necessarily, we know how her relation with Crowell ended up): this is more effective than just say no.

Am I the only one who found Crowell didn’t really add much as a talking head in the Ken Burns Country doc?

He didn't.

Seemed like he was there mainly as a member of the extended Cash family, similar to Hank Jr.’s daughter, even though he commented somewhat vacuously on Guy Clark and such, and maybe on Emmylou Harris as well, although I can’t recall an incident of this latter.

It all went down
On the inside