Singer of 21 Top-40 country hits, Grammy winner, American music royalty
Southwest Roots Music, Double D Productions & the Reporter are proud to present
ROSANNE CASH

Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 7:30
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 201 West San Francisco, Santa Fe
$29-$69 reserved
Tickets at Lensic Box Office 505-988-1234

When I was 18, 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." --ROSANNE CASH

The genesis of Rosanne Cash's remarkable new album, The List, dates back to that day in 1973--to a time before her 11 previous albums, her Grammy, her twenty-one Top-40 country singles. She had just graduated high school and was starting to write songs of her own when her father, the incomparable Johnny Cash, discovered some gaps in her knowledge of American roots music." I think he was alarmed that I might miss something essential about who he was and who I was," says Cash. "He had a deeply intuitive understanding and overview of every critical juncture in Southern music: Appalachian songs, early folk songs, Delta blues, Southern gospel, right up to modern country music." Three dozen years later, Cash has selected 12 songs from the syllabus presented to her by her father and approached each composition—from Jimmie Rodgers' "Miss the Mississippi and You" to Bob Dylan's "Girl from the North Country"—in search of its particular essence. The result is a glorious, rich and complex range of sounds and moods.

The idea for The List came about while Cash was on tour promoting her 2006 studio album, the widely acclaimed, Grammy-nominated Black Cadillac—a reflective song cycle about the loss of her father; her mother, Vivian Liberto; and her stepmother, June Carter Cash. She had held on to the original copy of the List for all those years, but had never thought to do anything with it. "It just didn't interest me," she says. "I learned all the songs, but then I set on my own course as a songwriter, and set about separating myself from my parents, as you do when you're young. When I was writing the narratives for the Black Cadillac show, I had recently found the List again, so I wrote about it. And virtually every show, people started asking me. 'Where's the List? What about that List?' And the import started to sink in—that this was about me and my dad, but it was also about a cultural legacy. These songs are as important as the Civil War to who we are as Americans. Something clicked and I entered it full-bodied then, with all my heart."

Rosanne will hit the stage with her full band. Big thanks to Hotel Santa Fe for supporting this performance!