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The genesis of Rosanne Cash‘s remarkable new album, The List, dates back to that day in 1973—to a time before her eleven previous albums, her 1985 Grammy and numerous additional nominations, her twenty-one Top 40 country singles. She had just graduated high school and was starting to write songs of her own when her father, the incomparable Johnny Cash, discovered some gaps in her knowledge ofAmerican roots music.


“I think he was alarmed that I might miss something essential about who he was and who I was,” says Cash. “He had a deeply intuitive understanding and overview of every critical juncture in Southern music—Appalachian songs, early folk songs, Delta blues, Southern gospel, right up to modern country music.”


Three dozen years later, Cash has selected twelve songs from the syllabus presented to her by her father and recorded her first album of covers. Still, she remains a songwriter to her core, so she approached each composition—from Jimmie Rodgers‘ “Miss the Mississippi and You” to Bob Dylan‘s “Girl from the North Country”—in search of its particular essence.


The result is a glorious range of sounds and moods, as rich and complex as such Cash masterworks as Seven Year Ache, Interiors, and Rules of Travel. A handful of truly special guests join her for some of the recordings: Bruce Springsteen (“Sea of Heartbreak”), Elvis Costello (“Heartaches by the Number”), Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy (“Long Black Veil”), and ofcourse Rufus Wainwright (Merle Haggard‘s “Silver Wings”).


The idea for The List came about while Cash was on tour promoting her 2006 studio album, the widely acclaimed, Grammy-nominated Black Cadillac a reflective song cycle about the loss of her father; her mother, Vivian Liberto; and her stepmother, June Carter Cash.


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