Rosanne Cash
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| Rosanne Cash | |
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 Rosanne Cash at the 2006 South by Southwest festival
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| Background information | |
| Born | May 24, 1955 |
| Genre(s) | Country, rock, folk, blues |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Label(s) | Columbia Records Capitol Records |
| Website | Official Website |
Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer and songwriter. Although she is most often classified as a country artist, her music also draws on other genres including folk, pop, rock and roll and blues. She is one of the daughters of Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin, born shortly before the release of her father's first single. She is also the stepdaughter of June Carter and the stepsister of country singer Carlene Carter.
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[edit] Early life
Born May 24, 1955, to Vivian Liberto Cash and Johnny Cash, Rosanne was raised by her mother in Southern California after her parents separated in the early '60s. She was largely uninfluenced by her father's music until she joined his road show following her graduation from high school; over a three-year period, she was promoted from handling the tour's laundry duties to performing, first as a backup singer and then as an infrequent soloist. [1] Still, Cash remained unsure of choosing a career in music, and took some acting classes; not wishing to succeed solely on the basis of her family's influence, she also worked as a secretary in London and traveled extensively abroad. [2]
[edit] Rise to fame
After releasing an eponymously titled solo record — later disavowed — in Germany in 1978, Cash signed with Columbia Records, and began performing with Texas singer/songwriter Rodney Crowell, who produced three songs for her American debut, 1979's Right or Wrong. [3]
[edit] Music career
[edit] 1979 – 1989: Biggest success
The record featured three Top 25 hits, including "No Memories Hangin' Round," a duet with Bobby Bare. The same year, she and Crowell also married. [4] Two years later, she had her first country No. 1 (and the biggest commercial hit of her career), "Seven Year Ache". Not only did the album yield three number one singles, the title track even crossed over into the Top 30 on Billboard's pop chart. [5] Although Cash was a prominent country star throughout the '80s, alongside fellow decade-defining artists Emmylou Harris, Juice Newton, and Dolly Parton, her music was anything but traditional: She topped the charts with songs written not only by herself, but by her father as well as The Beatles.
The follow-up, 1982's Somewhere in the Stars, was a rush job, recorded during Cash's pregnancy. While failing to repeat Seven Year Ache's success, it did produce two more Top Ten singles, "Ain't No Money" and "I Wonder." [6] After a three-year hiatus, Cash returned with Rhythm & Romance, a deft fusion of country and pop that won wide acclaim from both camps. The record earned her two more number ones, "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" (co-written with Crowell) and a cover of Tom Petty's "Never Be You." In 1987, she issued King's Record Shop, a meditation on country music traditions which generated four successive number one hits in John Hiatt's "The Way We Make a Broken Heart," "Tennessee Flat Top Box" (a hit for her father in 1961), "If You Change Your Mind," and John Stewart's "Runaway Train." [7]
Also hitting number one was "It's Such a Small World," a duet with Crowell from his Diamonds & Dirt LP. She was named Billboard's Top Singles Artist in 1988. [8]
The next year, Cash assembled the retrospective The Hits 1979-1989; one of the record's few new songs, a cover of The Beatles' "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party," pushed the consecutive number ones streak to five. [9]
[edit] 1990 – 1999: Career decline
By 1990, her marriage to Crowell was beginning to dissolve; Interiors, an essay on the couple's relationship, was released the following year, and while the record was the subject of great critical acclaim, it was a commercial failure that generated only one Top 40 hit, "What We Really Want." In 1991, Cash and Crowell divorced; The Wheel, released in 1993, was an examination of the marriage's failure. [10]
After a three-year hiatus, Cash returned in 1996; not only did she publish her first book, a short-story collection titled "Bodies of Water," but she also issued her first release on Capitol Records, 10 Song Demo, an 11-cut collection of stark home recordings released with minimal studio gloss. [11]
[edit] 2000 – present: Music career today
In 2003, Cash returned with Rules of Travel, an album five years in the making and her first full-fledged studio release since The Wheel. The album features guest appearances by Sheryl Crow, the Odds' Craig Northey and Steve Earle, as well as a tune penned by Joe Henry and the Wallflowers' Jakob Dylan. Sony reissued Interiors, King's Record Shop, and Seven Year Ache in 2005, as well as a the greatest-hits collection Blue Moons and Broken Hearts: The Anthology 1979-1995. [12]
Cash ranked at #22 on CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002.
In 2005, she was portrayed by Hailey Anne Nelson in the Academy Award-winning biopic based on her father's life, Walk the Line, for which her half-brother John Carter Cash -- the only child of June Carter and Johnny Cash -- was the executive producer. Cash's name was incorrectly spelled in the credits as "Roseanne". Cash's most recent album, entitled Black Cadillac, was released by Capitol Records in January 2006 to critical acclaim. The album addresses the losses (within a 24-month span) of her step-mother, her father, and her mother, who died on Cash's fiftieth birthday.
In 1979, she married Rodney Crowell, who was to produce most of her hit records. Their stormy marriage lasted until 1992; its break-up is chronicled in Cash's Interiors and in Crowell's album Life Is Messy. Cash later married John Leventhal, who produced her 1990s and 2000s albums. In addition to her own recordings, Cash has made guest appearances on albums by Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Marc Cohn, The Chieftains, Willy Mason, and others, as well as children's albums by Larry Kirwan, Tom Chapin, and Dan Zanes and Friends. She has also appeared on tribute albums to Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Tammy Wynette, Doc Pomus, Laura Nyro, Yoko Ono, John Hiatt and Jimi Hendrix.
On November 6, 2007, it was announced through her official website that Cash would undergo brain surgery for a benign brain disease called Arnold-chiari malformation a congenital malformation of the skull that affects the brain and spinal cord. [1] Cash is recuperating at her New York home following surgery on Nov. 27 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Earlier in November, she canceled four concerts after the announcement. Representatives at Manhattan Records, her label, say the surgery was successful and that a full recovery is expected.[2]
[edit] Other careers & efforts
[edit] Writing
In 1996, Cash released a book of short stories entitled Bodies of Water. This was followed in 2000 by a children's book entitled Penelope Jane: A Fairy's Tale, which included an exclusive CD single, and in 2001 she edited the collection Songs Without Rhyme: Prose By Celebrated Songwriters. She is also an amateur painter whose work is featured in the booklet for her Interiors album. Her version of the John Hiatt song "It Hasn't Happened Yet" inspired the short story "No One's a Mystery" by writer Elizabeth Tallent. She has publicly expressed support for environmental causes and opposition to the Iraq War. Cash now lives in the Chelsea neighborhood in downtown Manhattan.
[edit] Philanthropic efforts
Rosanne Cash has been actively involved in promoting SOS Children's Villages since her father's passing in 2003. In 2004, Rosanne accepted the Children's Champion Award given by SOS on behalf of her father for the Cash family's tireless support of SOS Children's Villages. [13].
[edit] Awards
Cash has, to date, received one Grammy Award, for "Best Female Vocalist - Country" (in 1986) for the hit "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me". Ironically enough, the writing of the song began on Cash's way home from the 1983 Grammy Awards, after a defeat at the hands of country-rocker Juice Newton for the award for "Best Female Vocalist - Country". Three years later, Cash would win a Grammy (over fellow nominee Newton) with the song she had written partially about her own Grammy loss.
[edit] Discography
[edit] References
- ^ Rosanne Cash biography at All Music Guide
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- ^ Rosanne Cash biography at All Music Guide
- ^ Rosanne Chas biography at All Music Guide (retrieved February 24, 2008)
- ^ Rosanne Cash biography at All Music
- ^ Rosanne Cash biography at All Music Guide (retrieved February 24, 2008)
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- ^ Rosanne Cash biography at All Music Guide
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- ^ Rosanne Cash biography at All Music; retrieved February 24, 2008
- ^ Rosanne Cash at All Music guide
- ^ SOS Rosanne Cash accepts award from Children's Charity. SOS Children’s Villages. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
- Friskies-Warren, Bill. (1998). "Rosanne Cash". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp, 87-8.
