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Richard and Sally Kalin

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Nancy VanLandingham, chair Bonnie Marshall Lam Hood, vice chair Pieter Ouwehand Melinda Stearns Judy Albrecht Lillian Upcraft William Asbury Pat Williams Lynn Sidehamer Brown Nina Woskob Philip Burlingame Deb Latta student representatives Eileen Leibowitz Brittany Banik Ellie Lewis Stephanie Corcino Christine Lichtig Jesse Scott Mary Ellen Litzinger CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT PENN STATE presents

Rosanne Cash The River & The Thread

Rosanne Cash, vocals and , , vocals, and music director Kevin Barry, guitars Glenn Patscha, keyboards Zev Katz, bass Dan Rieser, drums and percussion

7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9, 2015 Eisenhower Auditorium

Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage.

The concert includes one intermission.

sponsors Richard and Sally Kalin

media sponsor BIG FROGGY 101

Some photographs and moving images have been generously provided by: James Jaworowicz and The Jack Robinson Archive, Memphis, Tennessee; Dave Anderson, Little Rock, Arkansas; Oxford American, A Magazine of the South; and The Library of Congress. Rosanne Cash appears by arragement with Opus 3 Artists and Cross Road Management.

The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. of musicthat traces itshistory to theregion. draws from country, , gospel,androck, reflects thesoulfulmix landscape oftheAmerican South.The ’s uniquesound,which doscopic examination ofthegeographic, emotional,andhistoric John PrineandTony JoeWhite— The River &The Thread isakalei- Paul White (The CivilWars) andDerek Trucks to legendssuchas guitarist. Featuring alonglist ofguests—from young guns like John songs withLeventhal, whoalsoserved asproducer, arranger, and singles, includingeleven numberones,wrote allofthenew album’s Rosanne Cash,whohascharted twenty-one top-forty country American life you willlikely ever read.” described by theChicagoTribune as“one ofthebest accounts ofan sociation. Inaddition,herbestselling 2010 memoir, Composed, was Cash—was namedAlbumoftheYear by theAmericanaMusicAs- sential songsasselected andgiven to herby herfather Johnny were bothnominated for Grammys. The List—an exploration ofes- Her previous two ,BlackCadillac(2006)and The List(2009), American Roots Song. Leventhal, won for Best AmericanRoots Performance andBest she co-wrote withherlongtimecollaborator (andhusband)John Best AmericanaAlbumandthetrack “A Feather’s NotaBird,” which awarded three Grammy Awards. The River &The Thread won for chapter to aremarkable periodofcreativity. In2015, Cashwas With The River &The Thread, Rosanne Cashhasaddedthenext THE RIVER&THREAD

© Clay Patrick McBride “When we started forming the idea for this record,” Cash says, “it felt like it was going to be the third part of a trilogy—with Black Cadillac mapping out a territory of mourning and loss and then The List celebrating my family’s musical legacy. I feel this record ties past and present together through all those people and places in the South I knew and thought I had left behind.”

The literal journey toward The River & The Thread began when Arkansas State University contacted Rosanne Cash about its inter- est in purchasing her father’s boyhood home in Dyess, Arkansas. A series of benefit concerts to get the project started featured artists such as , , Dierks Bentley, Willie Nel- son, and The Civil Wars.

While helping with the purchase and renovation of the Dyess house, Cash and Leventhal took several extended trips through the South- ern states—visiting William Faulkner’s home; Dockery Farms, the plantation where Howlin’ Wolf and Charley Patton worked and sang; and Natchez and the blues trail.

“The thread” in the album’s title comes from Rosanne Cash’s friend Natalie Chanin, a master seamstress in Florence, Alabama. “Nata- lie was teaching me to sew,” Cash says, “and she said, ‘You have to learn to love the thread,’ in this beautiful accent, and it hit me as an enormous metaphor.” The line appears in the album’s opener, “A Feather’s Not a Bird,” a deeply swampy shuffle that Cash describes as “a mini-travelogue of the South and of the soul.”

The journeys repeatedly took Cash and Leventhal through Memphis, Tennessee, the city of her birth and a place that had a profound impact on the album’s direction. They visited the studio of and watched their son strum a guitar in the same room where her father cut his first record. “The connection to Memphis is powerful and deep,” she says.

As the themes and subjects of The River & The Thread emerged, Cash gradually envisioned how she wanted to connect the dots into a cohesive work, connecting her own story to the rich history of a region. “I guess I weave in and out of these songs, in a way,” she says. “I don’t think I had a complete map of it, but John really became a guide. We would write something and say, ‘This is part of the geography, both emotional and physical.’”

Cash acknowledges that, even with fifteen albums and four books behind her, it was difficult to start writing songs again after spend- ing several years immersed in the masterful compositions featured on The List. “You cannot keep that in your mind, except as an inspi- ration, a standard to aspire to,” she says. “To say, ‘I’m going to write a song as great as ‘Take These Chains’—you’re not. So the only way to not get dismantled by that is to stay connected to your own muse and immerse yourself completely in what you’re doing, so it can be as rich and authentic as it can possibly be. That’s all you can hope for.”

With The River & The Thread, she has risen to that challenge and emerged with a beautiful and haunting album, one of the finest works in an extraordinary career.

WHO’S WHO JOHN LEVENTHAL (guitars, Carpenter, , vocals, and music director) is a Mighty Sam McClain, Sarah Grammy Award-winning musi- McLaughlin, and the Consuelo cian, producer, , and Candelaria group. Along with recording engineer who has acoustic and electric guitars, produced albums for Rosanne Barry has disciplines in lap steel, Cash, Michelle Branch, Shawn pedal steel, Dobro, bass, and Colvin, Joan Osborne, Marc high-strung requinto. Cohn, , and many others. As a musician, GLENN PATSCHA (keyboards), he has worked with all of the who was born in Winnipeg, above as well as artists such Manitoba, moved to Louisiana as , , in 1989 to study with Ellis Mar- , , salis at the University of New , , Orleans. He went on to play and and . As a song- record with many writer, he has had more than icons young and old such as 100 songs recorded by vari- Brian Blade, Nicholas Payton, ous artists. In 1998, he won the and Leroy Jones. A recording Grammys for Record and Song and touring stint with Marianne of the Year for producing and Faithfull reignited an interest co-writing “” in composing and songwriting. with Colvin. He lives with Cash, After moving to his wife, and their children in in 1998, Patscha started the New York City. acclaimed band Ollabelle. signed the KEVIN BARRY (guitars), a multi- group to his instrumentalist based in Boston, imprint DMZ. Patscha has teaches guitar at the Berklee recorded and performed with College of Music and tours , , Bet- regularly with Rosanne Cash, tye Lavette, The Holmes Broth- Peter Wolf, , and Ray ers, Cubanismo, Madeline Pey- LaMontagne. He has also per- roux, Roger Waters, , formed and/or recorded with Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson, Jonatha Brooke, Mary Chapin Loudon Wainwright, and others. He scored the Sundance Grand between Jones and Green Day’s Jury Prize-winning film Sangre Billy Joe Armstrong. De Mi Sangre with Brian Cull- man, the award-winning Finnish MIRIAM NILOFA CROWE film Kukkulan Kuningas (On Thin (lighting designer and operator) Ice), and a number of short films designs regularly for Latin by photographer Mary Ellen Grammy- and Grammy-winner Mark and Martin Bell. Recently, Lila Downs, Ko-Ryo Dance Patscha has produced record- Theater, The Drilling Company, ings for and Strindberg Rep. Her and Marc Cohn, plus a record recent projects include home/ with his new band The Big sick (The Assembly), Honky Bright with Fiona McBain (Olla- (Urban Stages), The Penalty belle) and Liz Tormes. (Apothetae), What it Means to Disappear Here (Ugly Rhino), ZEV KATZ (bass) first met and Gorilla (SATC), RescYou worked with Rosanne Cash in (Eckert+SorensonJolink), 1993 on her album The Wheel. Project RUIN (Carlye Eckert Katz has been a friend and and Lucie Baker), Bridesburg associate of John Leventhal’s (Miscreant Theater), Symphony since 1974. It is his pleasure to for the Dance Floor (Daniel be accompanying them in sup- Bernard Roumain), Life after port of The River & The Thread. Dark (Dana Leong), Flags Katz has also played, toured, (Firefly Theater @ 59E59), and/or recorded with a diverse Woman in Waiting (Farber group of artists, including Roxy Foundry), Beowulf (Lincoln Music, Bette Midler, James Center Festival), and The Taylor, , Luciano Intelligent Design of Jenny Pavarotti, The Yellowjackets, Chow (Yale Rep). She is a Hall & Oates, Mavis Staples, Dr. founding member of Wingspace John, and Ennio Morricone. Theatrical Design. www.wingspace.com/miriam DAN RIESER (drums and per- cussion) has been active in the D. J. MENDEL (video designer), New York City singer-songwriter a longtime collaborator with and scenes since the early Rosanne Cash, directed and 1990s. He has performed and/ video designed her previous or recorded with , two concert tours, Black Cadil- , Marcy Playground, lac and The List, and the music Two Ton Boa, Chris Cheek, videos for her songs “Mother- Seamus Blake, The Bloomdad- less Children” and “I’m Moving dies, The Little Willies, Jenny On.” He also designed the video Scheinman, Marc Cohn, Rebecca for her Art and Ideas keynote Martin, and Madeline Peyroux. speech at the 2013 Association Rieser appears on Rosanne of Performing Arts Presenters Cash’s album The River & The Conference in New York City. Thread and , the Mendel has directed two of recent acclaimed collaboration world-renowned composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Rou- ture films—Make Pretend, which main’s music-theatre pieces, he wrote, and Planet Earth: Darwin’s Meditation for the Peo- Dreams, written by avant-garde ple of Lincoln and Symphony theatre legend Richard Fore- for the Dance Floor. Both shows man—plus numerous shorts premiered at the Next Wave films. Festival at the Acad- emy of Music in New York City DAVID MANN (sound mixing and toured the . and tour manager) has been For nine years Mendel has on the scene as a recording directed all of Cynthia Hopkins’ engineer and live sound mixer work, including the award-win- for many years. His list of asso- ning Accidental Nostalgia (Obie ciations is a who’s who of the Award), Must Don’t Whip ’Um, music industry. Emmylou Har- The Success of Failure (Bessie ris, , Preservation Award), The Truth: A Tragedy, Hall Jazz Band, Herbie Hancock, and This Clement World. Each Suzanne Vega, Aimee Mann, Hopkins show premiered at Marc Cohn, Ingrid Michaelson, St. Ann’s Warehouse in New and The Waterboys are only a York City and went on to tour few of the artists with whom he the United States and . has worked. Mann has worked Mendel has directed two fea- with Rosanne Cash since 2011.

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