Essential Rosanne Cash

Rosanne Cash | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2011
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sony Legacy
• ASIN: B004Q56716
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,439 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Can I Still Believe In You

2. Baby, Better Start Turnin Em Down

3. No Memories Hangin Round Duet with Bobby Bare

4. Seven Year Ache

5. Blue Moon With Heartache

6. My Baby Thinks He s A Train

7. It Hasn t Happened Yet

8. I Wonder

9. If It Weren t For Him Duet with Vince Gill

10. I Don t Know Why You Don t Want Me

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. The Real Me

2. On The Surface

3. What We Really Want

4. I Want A Cure

5. Mirror Image

6. The Wheel

7. Seventh Avenue

8. Sleeping In Paris

9. A Lover Is Forever (live)

10. Western Wall

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The idiosyncratic and innovative music of Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash, made her one of the pre-eminent singer/songwriters of her day. Although Rosanne Cash is often classified as a country artist, her music draws on many genres, including folk, pop, rock and blues. In the 1980s, she had a string of chart-topping singles, which crossed musical genres and landed on both C&W and Top 100 charts, the most commercially successful being her 1981 breakthrough hit "Seven Year Ache", which topped the U.S. country singles charts and reached the Top 30 on the U.S. pop singles charts. Included on The Essential Rosanne Cash are 36 tracks over 2 discs, including 10 #1 US Country singles.
There is a story here on The Essential Rosanne Cash that runs from 1978's "Can I Still Believe In You" to 2009's "Sweet Memories." Within the joints and joists of these songs Cash married, had children, married again, had children again, traveled, lived in five cities on two continents, lost loved ones, got sick and got well again. Many of the selections on this compilation are signposts of sorts for the landmarks of her life, and the personal and musical are essentially interwoven.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Landmarks Of Her life May 24, 2011

By prisrob TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Audio CD

As Rosanne Cash related in her recent memoir, 'Composed', her life has been filled with many highs and lows, and Rosanne is a glass half-full kind of girl. From the first track of 'Can I Still Believe In You' to the last track 'Sweet Memories', Rosanne brings us her history. Rosanne comes from a family rich in music from the old folk tunes, cultural and regional tunes, jazz, pop, rock and blues and country. Rosanne Cash is not a one note woman, her lucious voice crosses many genres. Her father, Johnny Cash, gave her a list of songs that she cherishes. It is filled with the tunes that describe our Americana. Rosanne has given us a cross section of some of those tunes, and the songs that she has sung in her albums over the past thirty plus years. Her life is interwoven through out these songs.

Rosanne sings with her father, Johnny Cash, Bobby Bare, Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell, Bruce Springsteen and Chris Thile. Many of my favorites are on this 36 song, two disc marvel. In this 'Essential' CD Rosanne brings us from her early beginnings, 'It Hasn't Happened Yet', to the sad times with one of the most emotional songs, 'September When It Comes' with Johnny Cash, to her record seller, 'Seven Year Ache'. It is difficult to pick a favorite, but 'Sea of Heartbreak' sung with Bruce Springsteen is it for me. You will find many songs that speak to you in this set, and we will all find our favorite voice.

Rosanne Cash brings us her life on a platter of 36 songs. All of them real and all of them a part of her life that brings us the whole truth. This is a comprehensive history of the singing life of Rosanne Cash.... As she says in her song 'The Real Me',

"Well, I've got no answers now
And I don't expect them from you
Thank God for second chances, baby
'Coz there's something I can give to you

And that's the real me, breakin' down at last
Hey, it's the real me, crawlin' out of my past
Baby, the real me, wants the real you, so bad"

Happy Birthday, Rosanne Cash!

Highly Recommended. prisrob 05-24-11

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Career- and label-spanning summary of a second-generation legend May 24, 2011

By hyperbolium

Format:Audio CD

For an artist of her stature, Rosanne Cash has been the subject of surprisingly thin compilation releases. Several 10- and 12-track single disc collections have been issued, but only Raven's imported 21-track Blue Moons and Broken Hearts and to a lesser extent Legacy's earlier Very Best Of really dug beyond the hits. That list is now expanded with this two-disc, thirty-six track collection, featuring a song list picked and programmed by the artist herself. The set opens with "Can I Still Believe in You," from her 1978 self-titled Germany-only debut, and closes over thirty years later with a trio of tracks drawn from 2009's The List. The latter selections include a cover of Mickey Newbury's "Sweet Memories" previously available only on the Borders Books version of The List.

Included are all eleven of Cash's country chart-toppers, seventeen of her twenty country chart entries, and tracks drawn from all twelve studio albums she's recorded for Ariola, Columbia and Capitol/EMI. There are augumented with bonuses drawn from earlier antholgies, and duets from albums by Vince Gill ("If It Weren't For Him") and Rodney Crowell ("Its Such a Small World"). The bulk of the collection is devoted to Cash's tenure with Columbia, with the second half of disc two stepping through her more recent work for Capitol/EMI. These latter tracks find Cash reinventing herself from a country hit maker to a writer, album auteur and Grammy nominee.... This plays out as a worthy soundtrack for Cash's recent memoir, Composed, provides a terrific overview of her hits and a useful guide to the rich album tracks in her catalog.

Though Cash isn't prone to complimenting her debut, the strength of her songwriter's voice is evident from the start. It may be difficult at mid-life to fully reconnect with the yet-to-be-fulfilled longing one felt at twenty-three, but the early songs provide telling snapshots of a young writer who was already able to express her soul in words. A year later, on 1979's Right or Wrong, Cash sounds more confident, singing as an equal with Bobby Bare on "No Memories Hangin' Round," and producer Rodney Crowell deftly blended roots with radio-friendly touches. Her follow-up, Seven Year Ache, broke her career wide open with an album and title track that each topped the country chart; the single also crossed over, stopping just shy of the pop top twenty.

Cash's songs and vocals, and Crowell's production fit easily across a variety of styles, including pop ballads, twangy roots, countrypolitan jazz, and horn-lined soul. Several of the hits, particularly those in the mid-80s, tended to crystalline guitars, big piano and booming drums, but Cash also topped the chart with the locomotive rhythm of "My Baby Thinks He's a Train," the Brill Building soul of John Hiatt's "The Way We Make a Broken Heart," and most endearingly, an acoustic shuffle of "Tennessee Flat Top Box" that recalled her dad's early days at Sun.

Cash's introductory notes provide a peek inside the discoveries that occur when an artist anthologizes her own catalog - thinking back to the places and people that influenced one's work, and wondering who they were when a particular song was written or performed. It's hard to tell if the songs provide mileage markers for her life, or her life provides the events that demarcate the phases of her career; a bit of each, it seems. The set's affectionate and perceptive liner notes are written by Rodney Crowell, to whom Cash was married and who produced her first five albums. The booklet adds detailed session notes, including chart information and personnel, and fleshes out this terrific overview of a second-generation country legend. [©2011 hyperbolium dot com] Read more ›

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll be listening to this one for a long time. May 27, 2011

By Alesia B. Adams

Format:Audio CD

The Essential Rosanne Cash is a wonderful career retrospective. She is at the top of the Singer-Songerwriter Americana genre, in my opinion, and this collection makes it clear why. You will not be disappointed. Excellent selection, excellent music, excellent writing. I love it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection of the one and only Rosanne Cash! June 13, 2013

By Montana

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If you are already a Rosanne Cash song, this is a great collection. If you're not, after hearing this collection you will be.

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential. May 13, 2013

By Brenda

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One for my car. Satisfies all my Rosanne Cash needs. Definitely worth the purchase. Two cd's a STEAL! Definitely order this one.

4.0 out of 5 stars She Is Esssential March 25, 2013

By Karen R. Jones

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I purchased this album for my daughter and she loves it. I would recommend this album to anyone.
my daughter doesn't like typical country but likes this artist

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow February 26, 2013

By rastaman

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I have a lot of her albums and am not sure which of my favorites are included in this and which not because I have only recently discovered her through The List, a more recent effort and country album of the year composed of her renditions of traditional classics noted by her father.
But if there were one to get this 2 cd set seems to have done the best job of covering most of her career.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad. January 3, 2013

By tarnished

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Not my favorite album as most of the songs are a little like lets weep in our beer tonight but OK,