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Reviews and Press, Rules of Travel
Read more...Black Cadillac Named One of 10 Best Albums of 2006
“Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison” Has Preview ScreeningNov. 14, 2008: "Last night in a screening room lit by flickering candles at New York City’s exclusive Norwood Club, less than 40 people attended an intimate screening of Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison, the documentary about Cash’s seminal live album currently making the international festival rounds. Rosanne Cash, director Bestor Cram and writer Michael Streissguth were on hand to field questions in a living-room-sized room that felt more like a hangout session than a screening." Read the entire Rolling Stone Article Wednesday, November 5I live in Chelsea, about twenty blocks straight south of Times Square, and I could hear the roars from my bedroom window at about 11 pm election night, when Obama was declared President-elect. The celebration here in Chelsea, and all around the city, went on until the wee hours. There was literally Dancing In The Streets. There was a group in the East Village who gathered spontaneously to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner". American flags went up all over. Personally, we posted a little handmade sign in the window, next to the pumpkin decorations, that said "Yes, We Did!" NYTimes on “Science of the Five Senses”Rosanne will be a panelist on a new lecture series by the New York Academy of Sciences. The series, "Science of the Five Senses", connects leading scientists with artists in an exploration of their work. Rosanne will be appearing with psychologist Daniel Levitin on April 29, 2009. For more information on the series, read the NY Times article and visit the New York Academy of Sciences web site. November 5, 2008: The Walls Come DownRead more...University of Notre Dame
Read more...Wednesday, October 29We had our first real cold day in the city yesterday and it was fun to see everyone break out their winter duds. I have made an informal observation over the years about who really dresses for the weather, and who rebels against appropriate cold-weather garb. If I want to know how cold it is, and how to dress, I look out my window and watch passers-by for a few minutes to get my cue. Just opening the door and sticking my hand out never works, because once I’m out for a few minutes it is always colder than I thought. Okay, here comes a young, straight man, wearing a hoodie. No, can’t trust him. I’ll freeze to death. Teenage girl in a mini-skirt and Ugg boots with only a scarf for warmth? Are you kidding? I’ll have pneumonia by 4 pm. Pizza delivery guy? Shirtsleeves. Right, he just ran out of the restaurant and didn’t bother putting a jacket on. No reliable information there. Okay, here comes the exact right person for my weather info: a mom pushing a stroller. She AND the baby have on coat, scarf, gloves and a hat. Thank you, Mom! I’ll be toasty all day. Wednesday, October 22Because the euro is so strong and the dollar so weak, the city is overrun with foreign tourists right now, all laden down with shopping bags. I see plenty of signs in store windows that say ‘Euros accepted’. I even saw one sign that said, ‘Euros ONLY’. I won’t mention any names. You know who you are, nice antique store. My daughter and I were in Bloomingdales last month, going up the escalator and as we got off, we saw a tall, striking young woman with a thick Brooklyn accent hawking perfume where people were getting on and off the escalator. No one paid any attention to her, so she amped up the volume and, in full Brooklynese, said, "BONJOUR! CA VA! BONJOUR, PEOPLE!" Cash Festival Front Page News
NY Times on the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin’ FestivalOctober 19th: Dan Barry writes about the Starkville, Miss. festival in his "This Land" column in the NY Times. “I usually don’t make a habit of making pilgrimages to a place where my father spent one night,” said an amused Rosanne, who headlined the festival. More photos and Starkville history accompany the NY Times article. Picks for October 2008Read more...Why I’d Be a Better VP than Sarah PalinPublished in TheNation.com, Oct. 10: “I’d like to formally submit myself to replace Sarah Palin on the GOP ticket. I feel confident that John McCain will see that the very attributes he desired in his VP choice can be met, and even exceeded in some areas, by me. “For your consideration, my big, fat résumé:” Comments • Read/Post
Wenesday, October 8I stepped into an elevator which was full of seven or eight African-American women, all leaning over a stroller and cooing at an adorable, pudgy-cheeked, wide-eyed African-American baby, who looked to be about 2 years old. Her mother kept saying gently, "Tell them your name. Tell them your name," but the baby would not comply. The elevator door opened and all the ladies started to walk out and suddenly the baby bellowed, in a voice loud enough to fill a ball park, "MY NAME IS BARACK OBAMA!" Everyone broke into peals of laughter. I leaned over and said to the baby, ‘So, you’re going to be president!" and she bellowed back, "YES!" Studio 360: Rosanne Reads a Favorite PoemStudio 360, Kurt Andersen’s weekly radio program on PRI, aired an August segment called "Poetry from the People:" "A few weeks ago, after featuring actor Bill Murray’s passion for poetry, we asked you to send us your favorite poems. Kurt calls up a few listeners—including a surprise celebrity listener—to tell us theirs." Click the audio player, below, for our favorite celebrity’s reading.
What is Music to Your Ears? The Science of Hearing
Read more...Spring Gala and Benefit, Ossining Matters
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Read more...Tuesday, October 7I know it’s summer when the old guy in the building next door parks his plastic lawn chair on the sidewalk in front of his apartment building sometime after lunch, and sits there for the entire afternoon watching the traffic and the passersby as if he is watching the waves and boats from the seashore. And I know it’s Fall when he stops bringing his plastic chaise outdoors and he becomes just another sidewalk surfer, head down and jacket zipped all the way up as he trudges down the street. It’s Fall. October 4, 2008: Post from Bochum, GermanyRead more...Concerts from The Library of Congress
Read more...4th Annual Bluegrass and BBQ Benefit
Read more...Tuesday, September 23a memory: when my son was three years old, he went to the library with a group of kids and two other moms. One of the moms was showing the kids the globe of the world and pointing out different countries. She asked my son, a native New Yorker who has never lived above 23rd Street, "Do you know what country you live in?" He stuck out his chest proudly. "I live in the country of DOWNTOWN!" he said. Still true. Rosanne Guests on Elvis Costello’s New TV Show, “Spectacles”Rosanne is a guest on the 11th episode of "Spectacles," a new music and talk show premiering on the Sundance Channel in December. The TV taping was held on September 15 at the historic Apollo Theater in New York City. Host Elvis Costello also welcomed guests Kris Kristofferson, Norah Jones and John Mellencamp. More about the show in the Press Release Saturday, September 13A car alarm directly across the street from my living room window went off for forty-five minutes before I called 311, the city services hotline. First, however, I taped a note to the window of the car saying, ‘YOUR CAR ALARM IS STUCK! PEOPLE LIVE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD!’. Within 10 minutes of calling 311, a squad car was there, and one of New York’s finest was writing a ticket. I walked across the street. "Hi, I’m the one who called." The officer looked up. "Are you also the one who wrote the nice note taped to the window?" "Yes, I am!" I said. "But I did restrain myself from throwing eggs." The officer told me to call 311 again and have the car towed, since they couldn’t turn it off. I went inside and told my daughter what he said. "But mommy," she said, ‘If you have their car towed, you’ll ruin their day." True. I didn’t call 311 back. The alarm stopped about ten minutes later. Picks for September 2008Read more...Friday, September 12
Show Tickets: Confirm EntryRead more...Apollo Theater, with Elvis CostelloRead more...Apollo Theater: Performance and Interview, with Elvis CostelloRead more...Tuesday, September 9September 11th: I sang at the memorial service at the World Trade Center site on the fourth anniversary of the attacks, September 11, 2005. The request had come from the Mayor’s office, and even the choice of song was specified. I sang "Danny Boy", a somewhat difficult song in the best of circumstances, but actually physically painful in the midst of a sea of grieving survivor’s families on that warm day three years ago. I will never forget it, and I will never forget that day four years earlier, how I watched the towers burn from the middle of Greenwich Street. My initial reaction, which still holds: No one should have to experience this, ever. Anywhere. God bless the whole world, no exceptions. “Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison”: Legacy box set with Rosanne interviewOn October 14, 2008, Columbia/Legacy releases Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition 40th Anniversary 2-Cd + Dvd Box Set. The set includes previously unissued tracks and DVD with interviews with Rosanne, Steve Earle, Merle Haggard, more. YouTube trailer includes excerpts from Rosanne’s video interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmve1IH7_bw Read more...Thursday, Sept 4My husband, Mr. L, who is no fan of dog owners in the city (it’s a long and sordid history) went outside to take out the trash and saw a dog owner, a middle-aged woman, walking away from the nice pile her pooch had just left on the sidewalk in front of our house. Mr. L, being as polite as he could manage under the circumstances of living in a city of about 100 million dogs and sidewalks that we all share, said, ‘Ma’am! You forgot to clean up after your dog!" The woman turned around and screeched at him, "YOU SHOULD PROVIDE BAGGIES" and turned and ran quickly away. I am not making this up. An Interview with Rosanne on New “Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison” Box SetOn October 14, 2008, Columbia/Legacy releases Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition 40th Anniversary 2-Cd + Dvd Box Set. YouTube trailer includes excerpts from Rosanne’s video interview. Read more...Sunday, August 31coming out of the subway on 14th St. and 1st Avenue, I hear a Hispanic lady talking to herself and she slowly climbed the stairs. I only understand a few words of Spanish, but I could swear she was saying ‘Ocho Dios… Ocho Dios...’. Doesn’t that mean Eight Gods? I was dying to know which Eight Gods she was praying to, or listening to, or checking up on. I must know. The Eight Gods of Harlem? The Eight Gods of Washington Heights? The Eight Gods of the Lower East Side? The Eight Gods of Mothers Everywhere? August 29, 2008: Country CounselingRead more...Wednesday, August 27I was having one of those days, and one of those phone calls. I was in a taxi, in an intense conversation about what seemed an insurmountable problem. I started crying into the phone. A few blocks went by, and a hand came through the window between me and the driver, with a tissue. I took the tissue and the driver said, sweetly, ‘Calm yourself, dear.’ Tuesday, August 26I got in a taxi on Broadway and 58th Street, going to 7th Ave. and 23rd Street, a straight shot downtown through Times Square. When I told the driver my destination, he said, "Do you want me to take the Queensboro Bridge?" "What? No, I’m going to SEVENTH AVENUE and 23rd STREET," I said, thinking he had completely misunderstood me. "Oh," he said. "You want me to take the Lincoln Tunnel?" His eyes twinkled in the rear-view mirror. I smiled. "No, no, just take the TIMES SQUARE BRIDGE", I said. The driver broke into guffaws. "All the years I make this joke, you are the first person to make a good joke back." He shook his head and looked at me in the mirror. "You are funnier than me." "I don’t think so," I said. "So what do tourists say when you make your joke to them?" I asked. "Aw, they always ruin the joke. They always say, ‘I don’t care which way you take me’". All the way downtown he was shaking his head and chuckling to himself. Several times he said, "You’re funnier than me." Several times I answered, "I don’t think so." Home Page blurbs: summary is “Music”, body is “News”, extended is “Tour”
Read more...Monday, August 25walking down 8th Avenue, a pushcart guy stands in front of his cart with arms outstretched and says, to no one in particular, ‘You don’t think from 2 o’clock in the morning until now is EARLY?!’ Monday, August 25A memory: When I first moved to Manhattan, in 1991, there was a great, legendary dive of a restaurant called Shopsins at the corner of Bedford and Morton Streets in the West Village. A family ran it, and they had about a hundred unbelievably delicious soups on the menu. Mr. Shopsin, the owner and chef, was notoriously bad-tempered and all manner of epithets and abuse came out of the kitchen. His wife took the orders, and his behaviour, with equanimity. She would let you go behind the counter and pour your own coffee after she’d seen you come in a couple of times, but she absolutely would not give up the coveted front table, which sat right in the window, for less than a party of four, even if the entire restaurant was empty. One day I took two of my daughters in for lunch and we ordered. My youngest asked for french fries. Mrs. Shopsin rolled her eyes and sighed and tapped her pencil against the pad. She shook her head. "Don’t piss him off," she said. We forgot about the french fries. a memory, 1992: I got into a taxi in Soho late at night, raining, and when I got in the taxi the driver crossed himself, floored the gas and ran straight into a parked car. Rubin Museum with Joe Henry
Read more...Mountain Stage Radio Show, Town Hall
Read more...Monday, August 18thA well-dressed guy comes up to me on the corner and starts in on an articulate, detailed and compelling story about how he is a designer who got locked out of his apartment and he needs ten dollars to..... "Wait a minute," I said. "This sounds really familiar. Oh, I know! You came up to me on this same corner two years ago and told me the same story!" He abruptly turned and walked away. Columbia/Legacy Reissues Early Albums and A New CompilationNovember 1st, 2005: Columbia/Legacy has released expanded editions of Seven Year Ache (1981), King’s Record Shop (1987), and Interiors (1990), plus a new collection spanning 1979-2003, The Very Best Of Rosanne Cash. Bonus tracks include previously unreleased live tracks and studio recordings, demo and b-side material, with new liner notes written by veteran journalists Chet Flippo, Geoffrey Himes, Anthony DeCurtis, and Alanna Nash. Read more...Album Notes and Track ListingsTrack by track information on the new releases. Read more...BackgroundRosanne Cash was born in Memphis on May 24, 1955, two months after Johnny recorded his first sides with Sam Phillips at Sun Records (with “Hey Porter”), and the same month he recorded his second sessions (with “Cry, Cry, Cry”). Three summers later, following his signing to Columbia, Johnny used his advance funds to move his family to the Los Angeles suburb of Ventura, where Rosanne grew up as the daughter of one of popular music’s most volatile and idiosyncratic figures. When she was 11, her parents divorced and Rosanne was raised in the Valley by her single mom. Read more...Liner NotesEach one of the albums includes new liner notes by writers who’ve followed Rosanne’s career since she first emerged on the scene in the late-1970s. Read more...Friday, August 14thI saw a white stretch limo pull up to the Barneys Warehouse Sale on W. 17th Street. Whatever they saved on that Prada jacket was spent on the gas for the stretch. Don’t you think? Allentown Morning CallAugust 15, 2008: "Rosanne Cash’s concert Saturday night at Lehigh University was nothing less than a soul scrapbook.... Cash sang cleanly and compellingly, with moonlit heartache and lullaby yearning." Read the review Regarding the Use of My Father’s Name To Further Political Agendas:Read more...CharitiesRead more...Johnny Cash 1932-2003Rosanne’s eulogy for her father at the Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute at Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN, November 10, 2003 Read more...Vivian Liberto Cash Distin 1934-2005Rosanne’s column on the death of her mother, written in July 2005 Read more...June Carter Cash 1930-2003Rosanne’s eulogy, delivered at June’s funeral, May 18, 2003, Hendersonville, TN Read more...John Stewart 1939-2008"My friendship with John Stewart changed my life irrevocably, and for the better." Read more...December 27, 2004: Mrs. L’s Best of 2004Read more...November 4, 2004: @#%&!Read more...October 3, 2004: Vote With A WomanRead more...September 13, 2004: AnniversaryRead more...August 27, 2004: Tempests, Teacups and RepublicansRead more...July 3, 2004: Auction, Movie, Vote!Read more...May 17, 2004: Memories and Merlefest. And Vote, OK?Read more...April 19, 2004: No One Said It BetterRead more...February 26, 2004: Magical Mystery Tours, Part Two: ScotlandRead more...January 26, 2004: Two Magical Experiences. Part 1: OsloRead more...November 16, 2003: A Season Of LossRead more...September 10, 2003: Hi Howard, Thanks MarthaRead more...July 28, 2003: Bus TourRead more...June 4, 2003: Losing JuneRead more...April 10, 2003: Uncle Joe and Aunt LouiseRead more...March 20, 2003: Taking A StandRead more...February 23, 2003: Musicians United Against The WarRead more...December 7, 2002: Cover Session - Resurfacing in MaineRead more...October 29, 2002: New Album Is Finished!Read more...Tuesday, August 12thI was in a taxi, stopped at 8th Avenue and 50th Street, when I saw a woman walking across the street flossing her teeth as she walked. She was holding a long, white piece of dental floss and just happily going at it as she talked to her companion and made her way to the corner. "OH my God. Do you see that?" I said to the taxi driver. He looked up and saw her and held up his hands. ’AW, don’t show me that, don’t show me that!" He turned around and looked at me seriously. "Once about five years ago I was on the train, and a man standing next to me took out a q-tip and started cleaning his ears. I’ve never gone on the subway since." We both shook our heads in disgust and the light changed. Pardon Johnny Cash festival
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The New York Times, Billboard, NPR, Nashville Scene Critic’s Poll and many others have named "Black Cadillac" in their lists of the 10 Best Albums of 2006
...in the Mississippi State University 
JRC 1932-2003
