Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac

'I couldn't avoid them,' says Rosanne Cash about the twelve songs that constitute Black Cadillac. 'I couldn't let any of them simply return to the ether. Some of them literally wouldn't let me sleep.' Within a two-year period, Cash's mother, father and step-mother all died. Her mother, the first wife of Johnny Cash, was an intensely private person, and her relationship with Rosanne, her oldest daughter, was extremely close. Grappling with the impact of their dying was not so much a challenge as a necessity. And on Black Cadillac, Rosanne Cash has delivered songs worthy of their profound subject.

To create a sound appropriate to her powerful subject, Cash worked with her husband and longtime co-producer and co-writer, John Leventhal (Shawn Colvin, David Crosby), and Bill Bottrell, who has worked with Sheryl Crow, Shelby Lynne and Linda Perry. It's rare that an album both makes itself thoroughly available on a first listen, and then reveals itself further each subsequent time. This CD does that because it is deepened, not diminished, by whatever growing life experience you bring to it. The more you know of loss and life's recompense, of sadness and hope, the more brightly its virtues shine. ~ Anthony DeCurtis

Listen to samples:

• Black Cadillac
• Radio Operator
• I Was Watching You
• Burn Down This Town
• God Is In The Roses
• House On The Lake
• The World Unseen
• Like Fugitives
• Dreams Are Not My Home
• Like A Wave
• World Without Sound
• Good Intent