Rosanne Cash

Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash at the 2006 South by Southwest festival
Background information
Born	May 24 1955 (1955-05-24) (age 52)
Genre(s)	Country, rock, folk, blues
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Years active	1979–present
Label(s)	Columbia Records Capitol Records
Website	www.rosannecash.com

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.

Success in the late 70s

Cash released her first single in 1979, a duet with Bobby Bare called "No Memories Hangin' Round". Two years later, she had her first country No. 1 (and the biggest commercial hit of her career), "Seven Year Ache". 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 ("Tennessee Flat Top Box"), John Hiatt ("The Way We Make a Broken Heart"), Tom Petty ("Never Be You") and John Lennon and Paul McCartney ("I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"). "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me", which won her a Grammy in 1985, and "It's Such a Small World", a 1987 duet with Rodney Crowell on his album Diamonds & Dirt, provided further hits. A sampling of these songs and more are included on the compilation Hits 1979–1989. 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 albums The Wheel, 10 Song Demo, Rules of Travel, and Black Cadillac.

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.

Later recording career

To date, Cash has had more than twenty top 40 country singles (including eleven chart-toppers), but none since 1990, and she has left Nashville in both spirit and body to pursue her artistic vision. Although she had recorded all of her hit songs for Columbia Records' Nashville division, she released 10 Song Demo for the pop division of Capitol. Cash resurfaced in 2003 with Rules of Travel. 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. 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 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.

Recent life

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. Cash ranked #22 on CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002. 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 ^[1]. 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". On November 6, 2007, it was announced through her official website that Cash would undergo brain surgery for a rare and 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]

Discography

Charted Singles

Albums

References

External links

• Official website
• Rosanne Cash discography at MusicBrainz