Rosanne Cash The List on LP

From the three years she spent after high school graduation on tour with her father, handling the tour‟s laundry duties to her promotion as a backup singer, the daughter of Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto, has forged her own place in American music.

But it wasn't until present day that Rosanne Cash was able to record The List, a deeply personal album that is a paean to her father: “When I was 18,” she explains, “I was on the road with my dad. One day, we were sitting in the tour bus, talking about songs, and he mentioned a song, and I said, 'I don‟t know that one.' He mentioned another one, and I said, 'I don‟t know that one, either.' Then he started to get alarmed, so he spent the rest of the day making a list on a legal pad, and at the top he put 100 Essential Country Songs. And he handed it to me and he said, 'this is your education'."

Her album, released on Manhattan Records in 2009, dates back to that day in 1973, but she reinvigorates songs that she says are “as important as the Civil War to who we are as Americans.” She got help from major performers, too, including Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Rufus Wainwright and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.

Produced with her Grammy-nominated husband John Leventhal, The List includes tunes by Bob Dylan (“Girl From the North Country”); Jimmie Rodgers (“Miss the Mississippi”); Patsy Cline (“She's Got You”); Merle Haggard (“Silver Wings); and, of course, the Carter Family‟s “Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow.” The last was her most personal; June was her stepmother, and Maybelle and Helen taught her to play guitar and proved heavy influences on her as a songwriter.

Rosanne Cash The List Track Listing:

1.  Miss the Mississippi and You
2.  Motherless Children
3.  Sea of Heartbreak (featuring Bruce Springsteen)
4.  Take These Chains from My Heart
5.  I’m Movin’ On
6.  Heartaches by the Number (featuring Elvis Costello)
7.  500 Miles
8.  Long Black Veil (featuring Jeff Tweedy)
9.  She’s Got You
10. Girl from the North Country
11. Silver Wings (featuring Rufus Wainwright)
12. Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow