These songs require distance and perspective." On her trips to the South over two years or so, Cash discovered not only a sense of Southern pride but "a richness, a denseness, a strangeness and a sense of beauty to it all." Said the singer-songwriter: "I don't think John and I could have written these songs had we lived in Mississippi. You want your children to know who their people are and that two generations back we were cotton farmers. "Like a lot of people in mid-life, you want to know what you're connected to, who your people are, where they come from, backwards and forwards. "I spent decades getting away from legacy and taking lot of excursions to find out who I'm not, experimenting, trying different things," she said recently from her New York City home. Now, "The River & the Thread" is the third consecutive album in which she has celebrated her legacy, starting with 2006's "Black Cadillac" (which reflected on the death of her parents) and 2010's "The List" (covers of essential American songs recommended by her father). In short, wife and husband explored her Southern roots - personally and musically.įor much of her career, Cash, 59, has tried to avoid being viewed as the firstborn child of an American musical giant. Then came the death in 2011 of Johnny's longtime bassist Marshall Grant sewing lessons that Rosanne took from a friend in Florence, Ala., and the desire of her husband, John Leventhal, to travel Hwy. The Southern sojourn started with an invitation from Arkansas State University to help raise funds to restore the boyhood home of her father, Johnny Cash. It was a perfect storm of inspiration," said the Memphis-born, California-raised Cash, who performs in three Minnesota cities this week. "We were in Memphis and Arkansas and Alabama and we kept getting struck by these deep experiences. It's not only one of Cash's finest albums, but one of the best albums of 2014. It became the cover shot of her new album, "The River & the Thread," a deep rumination and elegant rhapsody on the South, set to various strains of American music.
She stood on the Tallahatchie Bridge, gazing at the muddy water made famous in the hit song "Ode to Billie Joe." And, unbeknown to Rosanne Cash, her husband snapped a photo of her.
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