Rosanne Cash started writing songs when she was the same age as many of the high school students she taught Wednesday morning in a master class on songwriting.
"I was 18," the 56-year-old singer told about 40 aspiring musicians and writers who gathered in a recital hall flooded with winter sunlight at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. "And they were bad songs. Really bad."
That couldn't be said for the songs that Cash sang at SCH Academy, such as her 1981 country hit "Seven Year Ache," which she wrote when she was 23, or "Black Cadillac," composed in 2003 after the death of her father, country giant Johnny Cash.
Nor would it apply to the tunes performed by Elizabeth Worgan and Nick McCall, SCH Academy students who had the gumption to get up on stage, borrow the guitar of their Grammy-winning guest lecturer, and sing their own compositions.
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