Rosanne Cash
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Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American country singer. She is the daughter of Johnny Cash, born shortly before the release of her father's first single. In many ways, her career reflects the changes in country music since the birth of the rock and roll era.
Born in 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, Cash grew up in California, but moved to Nashville after high school graduation. She worked in her father's road show before setting out on her own. Cash released her first single, a duet with Bobby Bare, in 1979, and had her first No. 1, "Seven Year Ache," two years later. She married Rodney Crowell, who produced most of her hit records, in 1979. Their stormy marriage lasted until 1992; its break-up is chronicled in Cash's Interiors and in Crowell's album Life Is Messy. Cash later married producer John Leventhal, who produced her albums The Wheel and 10 Song Demo. Though Cash was a prominent country star throughout the '80s, her music was anything but traditional: she topped the charts with songs written not only by herself, but by her father ("Tennessee Flat Top Box"), John Hiatt ("The Way We Make A Broken Heart"), Tom Petty ("Never Be You") and the Beatles ("I Don't Want To Spoil The Party"), as well. "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" won her a Grammy in 1985. All of these songs and more are included on the compilation Hits 1979-1989.
Cash has had more than twenty top 40 country singles, including eleven chart-toppers, but nothing since 1990, and she has found it necessary to leave Nashville in both spirit and body to pursue her artistic vision. Though she had recorded all of her hits for Columbia Records' Nashville division, she released 10 Song Demo for the pop division of Capitol. She also released a book of short stories, Bodies Of Water in 1996.
Cash resurfaced in 2003 with Rules Of Travel. The album features guest appearances by Sheryl Crow and Steve Earle, as well as a tune penned by Joe Henry and the Wallflowers' Jakob Dylan, who also knows a thing or two about life as the offspring of a legend.
