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Rosanne Cash - St. Ann's First List St. Ann's Warehouse Brooklyn, NY October 9, 2009
Disk 1 I’m Movin’ On (Hank Snow)
Disk 2 Radio Operator (Johnny Cash)
Rosanne Cash - guitar, vocal
From BigO Magazine ROSANNE CASH On October 9, 2009, Rosanne Cash presented the World Premiere concert of her new album, The List, the first album culled from a list of “100 Essential Country Songs” that Johnny Cash created for his daughter when she was 18. Alarmed that Rosanne lacked a deep understanding of country music, Johnny gave her the list and insisted she learn them all. Rosanne noted: “If my father had been a martial arts master, he might have passed a martial arts ‘secret’ on to me, his oldest child. If he had been a surgeon, he might have taken me into his operating room and pointed out the arteries and organs. If he were a robber baron, he might have surveyed his empire and said, ‘Honey, some day this will all be yours!’ But he was a musician and a songwriter, and he gave me The List.” “The List (the album) was far-ranging and thorough,” Cash said. “It was assembled from my father’s intuitive understanding of each critical juncture in the evolution of country music. There were old Appalachian folk ballads, and the songs of Jimmie Rodgers and Woody Guthrie. The influence of gospel and Southern blues were crucial. Then he segued into rockabilly and the birth of modern country music by way of Hank Williams, and up to the present, which was then 1973. He also included a couple of his own songs. I endeavored to learn them all and it was an education,” she said. “I looked to that list as a standard of excellence, and to remind myself of the tradition from which I come. This album enables me to validate the connection to my heritage rather than run away from it, and to tie all the threads together: past and future, legacy and youth, tradition the timelessness.” Reviewing the show in The New York Times, Nate Chinen wrote: “During the final moments of her sold-out concert at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn on Friday night, Rosanne Cash stood beneath an image of her with her father, Johnny Cash. It was a photograph projected on a backdrop, and it faded soon enough to feel like a mirage. Given that Ms. Cash had just sung Sweet Memories, a country ballad of haunted remembrance, that apparitional suggestion was on the mark. “The World Unseen came about as close as possible to illuminating the evening’s purpose. Over a bittersweet country-rock groove, Ms. Cash created an evocative scene: an empty room, a night sky, the distant sound of a guitar. ‘So I will look for you,’ she sighed, ‘between the grooves of songs we sing’.” A crisp and clear recording, this is truly heartfelt by the numbers and thanks to Evil Dr Louie for sharing the lossless tracks.
This comes from BigO Magazine and is an MP3 at 192 kbps decoded to WAV |
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