Rhythm & Romance

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One thing I have always loved about Rosanne Cash is the fact that she was not afraid to bare her soul in her songs, and yet we could all relate to them on some level. I love Rosanne because she is a strong, powerful woman, yet sensitive at the same time. The first thing out of her mouth on this CD is "If you want to keep a woman like me, you gotta hold on!" Wow!! The first 4 songs were the singles and they are not only very catchy, but have so much to say. Even though these songs were released in the mid 80's, I still listen to this CD here in 2003 and love it just the same. Aside from the singles, I really enjoy the heart-felt tune dedicated to her father, Johnny Cash, "My Old Man". I love the totally rockin' "Never Gonna Hurt" - a song many of us who have had bad relationships could relate to. I even love the acoustical closing song, "Closing Time". I remember this release being very controversial at the time; partly because of the album cover, because her music was 'too loud' for...Read more

RHYTHM AND ROMANCE still ranks as Roseanne Cash's masterwork fully twenty years after its original 1985 release.

Although widely ignored by traditional country enthusiasts Cash's electric guitar-based country presaged such monster acts as Shania Twain and Faith Hill in the 1990s. The overtly sexual, Barbie-pink album jacket was a feminine gauntlet thrown down amidst a male-dominated musical form that was fossilized in its own tracks. Roseanne, the daughter of the original "Man In Black" came to us in full female color.

"I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" was the chartbreaker, but RHYTHM AND ROMANCE had four hit singles and a Grammy. And unlike Twain and Hill (and their many imitators), Roseanne is truly wistful, painfully honest, and aggressive by turns, able to wring real tears out of most of the songs on this album. In short, it works as both traditional country and crossover material.

Still the piece de resistance amongst female country music...Read more

Rosanne Cash's "Rhythm & Romance" #101, is my favorite Rosanne album. On this album she produced 4 big hits, "I Don't Know Why You, Don't Want Me"(she won a grammy for best female country vocal for this song), "Never Be You" written by Tom Petty and Benmont Tench, "Hold On" and "Second To No One". The album also has great songs in "Halfway House", I just enjoy this song, the chiming "Pink Bedroom", written by John Hiatt, the new wavy "Never Alone", her tribute to her dad on "Old Man", bouncy pop-rocker "Never Gonna Hurt" and finishes with the gentle "Closing Time". Sony please remaster this and "Kings Record Shop", someday! Rosanne used some great musicians on this album, Benmont Tench,Anton Fig, Willie Weeks, David Hungate, Larry Crane, Waddy Wachtel, Billy Joe Walker Jr. and Vince Gill on most backing vocals.