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Gavin B. · 11-19-2009, 08:39 AM

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Notable Albums of 2009

2009 Noteable Album: The List by Rosanne Cash

Motherless Children- Rosanne Cash Like yesterday's featured artist, Justin Earle, Rosanne Cash is another child of a country music legend, Johnny Cash. The List refers to a list of 100 traditional public domain songs that Johnny Cash gave Rosanne on her 18th to listen to because Johnny was concerned that Rosanne only knew the music she was listening to on rock music radio. The songs perfomed on Rosanne's new album are selected exclusively from the Johnny Cash list.

Since passing of her father, Rosanne Cash has rejuvenated her career by becoming more like her father. In 2006 Rosanne released the excellent Black Cadillac a rootsy memorial album to her father, and now with this year's The List Rosanne is following the deep roots Americana approach of her father. The 12 songs on The List are the best collection of public domain songs performed by a popular artist in a long time.

Motherless Children is a song written by A.P. Carter and sung by the America's first country music stars, the Carter Family. Rosanne's step mother, June Carter Cash, is the daughter of the Maybelle Carter of that same Carter family. Rosanne's uptempo jazz influenced arrangement is more within the neo-traditionalist camp but her modernist refinements to Motherless Children are finessed with all due respect to the country blues origins of the Carter Family's original arrangement.

The bluesy slide guitar solo is performed by producer extrordinaire and multi-instrumentalist John Leventhal, Rosanne's ex husband and her long time collaborator and producer. Leventhal is the producer of The List and plays most of the the musical instruments on the studio tracks of the album but all of the distinctive arrangements of the songs were done by Rosanne.

The embedded video is a live performance of Motherless Children that is pretty close to the arrangement you hear on The List.

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Gavin B. Model Worker Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,248	Song of the Day Notable Albums of 2009 *2009 Noteable Album: The List* by Rosanne Cash Motherless Children- Rosanne Cash** Like yesterday's featured artist, Justin Earle, Rosanne Cash is another child of a country music legend, Johnny Cash. The List refers to a list of 100 traditional public domain songs that Johnny Cash gave Rosanne on her 18th to listen to because Johnny was concerned that Rosanne only knew the music she was listening to on rock music radio. The songs perfomed on Rosanne's new album are selected exclusively from the Johnny Cash list. Since passing of her father, Rosanne Cash has rejuvenated her career by becoming more like her father. In 2006 Rosanne released the excellent Black Cadillac a rootsy memorial album to her father, and now with this year's The List Rosanne is following the deep roots Americana approach of her father. The 12 songs on The List are the best collection of public domain songs performed by a popular artist in a long time. Motherless Children is a song written by A.P. Carter and sung by the America's first country music stars, the Carter Family. Rosanne's step mother, June Carter Cash, is the daughter of the Maybelle Carter of that same Carter family. Rosanne's uptempo jazz influenced arrangement is more within the neo-traditionalist camp but her modernist refinements to Motherless Children are finessed with all due respect to the country blues origins of the Carter Family's original arrangement. The bluesy slide guitar solo is performed by producer extrordinaire and multi-instrumentalist John Leventhal, Rosanne's ex husband and her long time collaborator and producer. Leventhal is the producer of The List and plays most of the the musical instruments on the studio tracks of the album but all of the distinctive arrangements of the songs were done by Rosanne. The embedded video is a live performance of Motherless Children that is pretty close to the arrangement you hear on The List.