Profile
Rosanne Cash
Singer + Songwriter + Musician
Female
Born
May 24, 1955
Age
58
Genres
Blues music + Roc...
Performed With
Rodney Crowell + ...
Record Label
Columbia Records
Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin. Although Cash is often classified as a country artist, her music draws on many genres… Read More
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Music: Rosanne Cash Sings For Red HookThe Brooklyn Paper - Nov 20, 2012
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Rosanne Cash On Mountain StageNPR - Oct 16, 2012
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Friday To Do: Johnny Cash Music FestivalArkansas Times - Oct 04, 2012
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Music City Beat: Concert Is Fundraiser For Cash's HomeThe Tennessean - Sep 24, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1955
Birth
Cash was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1955, just as father Johnny was recording his first tracks at Sun Records.
1958
3 Years Old
The family moved to California in 1958, first to Los Angeles, then Ventura, where Cash and her sisters were raised by mother Vivian. (Vivian and Johnny separated in the early 1960s and divorced in 1966.) After graduating from high school, she joined her father's road show for two and a half years, first as a wardrobe assistant, then as a background vocalist and occasional soloist.
TEENAGE
1966
11 Years Old
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Johnny and Vivian divorced in 1966, and he married June Carter in 1968.
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TWENTIES
1976
21 Years Old
In 1976, Cash briefly worked for CBS Records in London before returning to Nashville to study English and drama at Vanderbilt University, then relocated to Los Angeles to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Hollywood.
She recorded a demo in January 1978 with Emmylou Harris' songwriter/sideman Rodney Crowell, which led to a full album with German label Ariola Records.
Crowell and Cash married in 1979, and Cash started work on her first Columbia LP.
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Cash and Crowell moved to Nashville in 1981.
THIRTIES
She won a Grammy in 1985 for "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me", and has received nine other Grammy nominations.
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1987
32 Years Old
She continued to record and in 1987 released the most critically acclaimed album of her career, King's Record Shop.
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1988
33 Years Old
In 1988 Cash recorded a duet with Crowell, "It's Such a Small World" (released on his Diamonds & Dirt album), which also went to No. 1 on the country charts, and Cash was named Billboard's Top Singles Artist of the year.
1989
34 Years Old
In 1989, Columbia released her first compilation album, Hits 1979–1989.
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In 1990, Cash released the critically acclaimed, deeply personal Interiors.
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1991
36 Years Old
Though it may have been inspired by the breakup of her marriage, it also signified her departure from Nashville and its country music establishment. In 1991 Cash relocated to New York City; in 1992, she and Crowell divorced.
1992
37 Years Old
Cash and Crowell divorced in 1992.
FORTIES
Cash settled in lower Manhattan, and in 1995 married producer/songwriter/guitarist John Leventhal, with whom she had co-produced The Wheel.
She signed with Capitol Records, and in 1996 released 10 Song Demo, a collection of stark home recordings with minimal accompaniment.
Recovering her voice, she resumed recording and in 2003, released Rules of Travel, her first full-fledged studio album for Capitol. The album had guest appearances by Sheryl Crow and Steve Earle, a song co-written by Joe Henry and Jakob Dylan, and the poignant "September When It Comes", a duet with her father. Rules Of Travel was nominated for a 2003 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
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FIFTIES
In 2006, Cash released Black Cadillac, an album marked by the loss of her stepmother, June, and father, Johnny, who both died in 2003; and her mother, Vivian, Johnny's first wife, who died as Rosanne finished the album in 2005. The album was critically praised, and named to the Top 10 lists of the New York Times, Billboard, PopMatters, NPR and other general interest and music publications. The album was nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.
In late 2007, Cash underwent brain surgery for a rare condition (Chiari I malformation) and was forced to cancel her remaining concert dates.
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In 2008 she wrote for Measure for Measure, the songwriters' column in The New York Times, recorded with Kris Kristofferson and Elvis Costello, and appeared on Costello's TV series Spectacle.
Cash released her next studio album, entitled The List, on October 6, 2009.
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