Essential Rosanne Cash

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The idiosyncratic and innovative music of Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash, made her one of the pre-eminent singer/songwriters of her day. Although Rosanne 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. Included on The Essential Rosanne Cash are 36 tracks over 2 discs, including 10 #1 US Country singles.
There is a story here on The Essential Rosanne Cash that runs from 1978's "Can I Still Believe In You" to 2009's "Sweet Memories." Within the joints and joists of these songs Cash married, had children, married again, had children again, traveled, lived in five cities on two continents, lost loved ones, got sick and got well again. Many of the selections on this compilation are signposts of sorts for the landmarks of her life, and the personal and musical are essentially interwoven.

Title Tracks for Essential Rosanne Cash

1. Can I Still Believe In You
2. Baby, Better Start Turnin Em Down
3. No Memories Hangin Round Duet with Bobby Bare
4. Seven Year Ache
5. Blue Moon With Heartache
6. My Baby Thinks He s A Train
7. It Hasn t Happened Yet
8. I Wonder
9. If It Weren t For Him Duet with Vince Gill
10. I Don t Know Why You Don t Want Me
11. Never Be You
12. Hold On
13. Runaway Train
14. The Way We Make A Broken Heart
15. If You Change Your Mind
16. It s Such A Small World Duet with Rodney Crowell
17. Tennessee Flat Top Box
18. I Don t Want To Spoil The Party
19. The Real Me
20. On The Surface
21. What We Really Want
22. I Want A Cure
23. Mirror Image
24. The Wheel
25. Seventh Avenue
26. Sleeping In Paris
27. A Lover Is Forever (live)
28. Western Wall
29. September When It Comes featuring Johnny Cash
30. Black Cadillac
31. House On The Lake
32. The World Unseen
33. The Good Intent
34. 500 Miles
35. Sea Of Heartbreak featuring Bruce Springsteen
36. Sweet Memories featuring Chris Thile

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

The Landmarks Of Her life, May 24, 2011

prisrob "pris," (New England USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Rosanne Cash (Audio CD)

As Rosanne Cash related in her recent memoir, 'Composed', her life has been filled with many highs and lows, and Rosanne is a glass half-full kind of girl. From the first track of 'Can I Still Believe In You' to the last track 'Sweet Memories', Rosanne brings us her history. Rosanne comes from a family rich in music from the old folk tunes, cultural and regional tunes, jazz, pop, rock and blues and country. Rosanne Cash is not a one note woman, her lucious voice crosses many genres. Her father, Johnny Cash, gave her a list of songs that she cherishes. It is filled with the tunes that describe our Americana. Rosanne has given us a cross section of some of those tunes, and the songs that she has sung in her albums over the past thirty plus years. Her life is interwoven through out these songs.

Rosanne sings with her father, Johnny Cash, Bobby Bare, Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell, Bruce Springsteen and Chris Thile. Many of my favorites are on this 36 song, two disc marvel. In...Read more

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Career- and label-spanning summary of a second-generation legend, May 24, 2011

hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Rosanne Cash (Audio CD)

For an artist of her stature, Rosanne Cash has been the subject of surprisingly thin compilation releases. Several 10- and 12-track single disc collections have been issued, but only Raven's imported 21-track Blue Moons and Broken Hearts and to a lesser extent Legacy's earlier Very Best Of really dug beyond the hits. That list is now expanded with this two-disc, thirty-six track collection, featuring a song list picked and programmed by the artist herself. The set opens with "Can I Still Believe in You," from her 1978 self-titled Germany-only debut, and closes over thirty years later with a trio of tracks drawn from 2009's...Read more

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

You'll be listening to this one for a long time., May 27, 2011

Alesia B. Adams - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Rosanne Cash (Audio CD)

The Essential Rosanne Cash is a wonderful career retrospective. She is at the top of the Singer-Songerwriter Americana genre, in my opinion, and this collection makes it clear why. You will not be disappointed. Excellent selection, excellent music, excellent writing. I love it.