MUSIC
ROSANNE CASH
TD Arena at College of Charleston June 2 at 7:30pm
Rosanne Cash, vocals and guitar with John Leventhal, vocals and guitars Marc Copely, guitars Glenn Patscha, keyboards Tim Luntzel, bass Dan Rieser, drums
PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION.
ROSANNE CASH is one of America’s pre-eminent singers and songwriters. Over Her recent album The List was released in the fall of 2009. The the past thirty years she has recorded songs on it were selected from a list of 100 great American songs fourteen albums and has had eleven No. that her father gave to her when she was eighteen. The album 1 singles, a Grammy award, and two Gold features a duet with Bruce Springsteen and vocal contributions albums. In that time, she has navigated her by Elvis Costello, Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), and Rufus Wainwright, and own path between country, rock, roots, was nominated for two Grammy awards. The List received the and pop, writing songs that are finely- Americana Music Association’s album of the year award in 2010. wrought vignettes, both highly personal and Her latest release is The Essential Rosanne Cash, a compilation universally appealing. that spans thirty years with songs personally curated by Rosanne. Cash is the keeper of an extraordinary family legacy. She Cash has also made her mark as a writer. She published a was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 24, 1955, the eldest collection of short stories called Bodies of Water in 1995, and a child of Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto. After her children’s book, Penelope Jane: A Fairy’s Tale, in 2000. Her essays parents separated she was raised by her mother in Los Angeles. and fiction have appeared in various collections and publications, Her father went on to marry singer June Carter, who also had an including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, The influence on young Rosanne’s musical path. Oxford American, and New York Magazine. Her most recent book After high school, Cash joined her father and stepmother’s is Composed: A Memoir, published by Viking in 2010. Over the road show, working her way up from laundry duty to backup course of her career, whether in music or on the printed page, singer to soloist. Before starting a full-time career in music, she Cash has articulated the most heartbreaking emotional realities: studied drama at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University and at the Lee betrayal, loss, misunderstanding, and isolation. But, in the family Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles. tradition, she always emerges with a firm belief in the limitless Cash’s recordings include Right or Wrong, Seven Year Ache, possibilities of personal redemption. Rhythm and Romance, King’s Record Shop, Interiors, The Wheel, 10 Song Demo, Rules of Travel, and Black Cadillac.
This performance is made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.
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