NEW FROM RUMBLESTRIP RECORDS
ROSANNE CASH
THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION
THE BRAND-NEW DEFINITIVE CAREER-SPANNING COMPILATION
Inspired by the new exhibit Time Is A Mirror at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum®.
40 Songs from all her albums (1979-2021).
Includes All 10 #1 Solo Hits.
Curated under the supervision of Rosanne Cash.
The perfect introduction to her time-honored career.
Compiled and released to coincide with the major new exhibit “Time Is A Mirror” at the Country Music Hall Of Fame & Museum in Nashville, TN, The Essential Collection is a definitive look back at 40+ years of Rosanne Cash’s recording career. The music herein traces her artistic journey from Nashville to New York City (by way of Los Angeles) while celebrating her incredible commercial success in both Country and Americana music. From “Seven Year Ache,” her first of an astonishing ten number one Country hits to the 3X Grammy-winning The River And The Thread, the collection is both a staggering overview and a perfect introduction for new and casual fans.
“Rosanne Cash may be her own best curator. Born into a beloved and daunting family, she first kept her distance from that history, then chose to explore and reshape it. She picks up, and then turns sideways from, assorted musical legacies: country music, pop sounds of the moment, singer-songwriter conventions get probed and upended in her work. No simple timeline will do. She – like country music and the Constitution – is a living record.
Rosanne Cash – Essential Collection creates a space, one in which Cash, who began making records in the late 1970s, controls the stories she tells, the masks she wears, the light shed.”
-from the liner notes by RJ Smith (Country Music Hall Of Fame & Museum)
“Two discs, forty years. Sometimes I felt it didn’t matter, and then one of you—maybe one of you who is reading this right now— told me after a show or wrote me a letter saying that one of these songs helped you through a break-up or a death, or was played at a wedding or a funeral, or maybe that it just soothed you at the end of a grueling day, or inspired you to write your own songs. Thank you. I heard you.
I couldn’t have done anything else in my life but write songs and make music, so I’m lucky I was able to carve a spot and have it held open by so many people, most especially the fans.
Artists do evolve— if in nothing else, then in gratitude, and in the realization that time is the most precious resource.
I don’t enshrine the work here, but I treasure it.
This is how I spent my time.”
-from the liner notes by Rosanne Cash
DISC ONE
1. Seven Year Ache
2. Tennessee Flat Top Box
3. Blue Moon With Heartache
4. The Wheel
5. The Way We Make A Broken Heart
6. What We Really Want
7. Sleeping In Paris
8. Never Be You
9. Runaway Train
10. I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party
11. I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me
12. On The Surface
13. Seventh Avenue
14. On The Inside
15. You Won’t Let Me In
16. Hold On
17. No Memories Hangin’ 'Round (with Bobby Bare)
18. If You Change Your Mind
19. It Hasn’t Happened Yet
20. My Baby Thinks He’s A Train
DISC TWO
1. A Feather’s Not A Bird
2. Black Cadillac
3. Sea Of Heartbreak (with Bruce Springsteen)
4. September When It Comes (with Johnny Cash)
5. When The Master Calls The Roll
6. The Only Thing Worth Fighting For
7. The Killing Fields
8. Western Wall
9. Heartaches By The Number (with Elvis Costello)
10. The World Unseen
11. The Long Way Home
12. She Remembers Everything
13. House On The Lake
14. List Of Burdens
15. Long Black Veil (with Jeff Tweedy)
16. Modern Blue
17. God Is In The Roses
18. Girl From The North Country
19. Rules Of Travel
20. The Sunken Lands
REINVENTING THE WHEEL TOUR
Celebrating 30 Years Of Songs And Stories And The Re-Release Of The Wheel
One of the country’s pre-eminent singer-songwriters,
Rosanne Cash has released 15 albums that have earned 4 Grammys and 12 additional nominations. Cash is also an author of four books including the best-selling memoir Composed, which the Chicago Tribune called “one of the best accounts of an American life you’ll likely ever read.” Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Oxford American, and more. A new book, Bird on a Blade, combines images by artist Dan Rizzie with Cash’s lyrics.
In addition to touring, Cash has partnered in programming with Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Library of Congress. Cash was awarded the SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement Award for Sound Recordings in 2012 and the 2014 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in the Performing Arts. She was a Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist in 2015-16 and was a 2015 Artist-In-Residence at the Country Music HOF and Museum. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at NYU. She is one of only a handful of women to be elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2017-18, she was a resident artistic director at SFJAZZ and will continue her partnership in 2022. In 2018, Cash was awarded the “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech Award by the AMA and received an honorary doctorate from Berklee. In 2021, Cash was the first female composer to receive the MacDowell Medal, awarded since 1960 to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture.
SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement Award in Sound Recordings - 2012
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA - 4 Grammy® Awards
NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME - Inducted 2015
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS - Hall of Fame Inductee - 2017
AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION - Spirit of Americana: Free Speech Award 2018
AMERICANA ASSOCIATION - ALBUM OF THE YEAR - THE LIST - 2010
JOHN LENNON REAL LOVE AWARD - 2018
2021 recipient of the 61st Edward MacDowell Medal of Arts - 2021
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN INGENUITY AWARD in the Performing Arts - 2014
Honorary Doctorate, Berklee College of Music - 2018
One of the country’s pre-eminent singer-songwriters,
Rosanne Cash has released 15 albums that have earned 4 Grammys and 12 additional nominations. Cash is also an author of four books including the best-selling memoir Composed, which the Chicago Tribune called “one of the best accounts of an American life you’ll likely ever read.” Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Oxford American, and more. A new book, Bird on a Blade, combines images by artist Dan Rizzie with Cash’s lyrics.
In addition to touring, Cash has partnered in programming with Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Library of Congress. Cash was awarded the SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement Award for Sound Recordings in 2012 and the 2014 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in the Performing Arts. She was a Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist in 2015-16 and was a 2015 Artist-In-Residence at the Country Music HOF and Museum. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at NYU. She is one of only a handful of women to be elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2017-18, she was a resident artistic director at SFJAZZ and will continue her partnership in 2022. In 2018, Cash was awarded the “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech Award by the AMA and received an honorary doctorate from Berklee. In 2021, Cash was the first female composer to receive the MacDowell Medal, awarded since 1960 to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture.
SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement Award in Sound Recordings - 2012
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA - 4 Grammy® Awards
NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME - Inducted 2015
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS - Hall of Fame Inductee - 2017
AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION - Spirit of Americana: Free Speech Award 2018
AMERICANA ASSOCIATION - ALBUM OF THE YEAR - THE LIST - 2010
JOHN LENNON REAL LOVE AWARD - 2018
2021 recipient of the 61st Edward MacDowell Medal of Arts - 2021
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN INGENUITY AWARD in the Performing Arts - 2014
Honorary Doctorate, Berklee College of Music - 2018
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