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Rosanne Cash

The List  Hear it Now

RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

2009

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When Johnny Cash gave daughter Rosanne his list of 100 essential country songs in 1973, she kept it tucked away until she could bring something of herself to the music. Thirty-six years later, she's brought in Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright, who help Cash make these songs her own. Electronic shadings give new color and depth to the Hank Williams hit "Take These Chains From My Heart," as do the organ and layered strings on her atmospheric version of Merle Haggard's "Silver Wings." Her more faithful take on "She's Got You" is less effective, simply because Cash's voice doesn't have the bravado of Patsy Cline's. But overall, these imaginative interpretations would make Papa proud.



MARK KEMP

(Posted: Oct 26, 2009)

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