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On A Tom Waits Covers Album, Women Transform A Classic Catalog

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On A Tom Waits Covers Album, Women Transform A Classic Catalog

Allison Moorer and producer Warren Zanes discuss making the tribute record Come On Up To the House, which also features Aimee Mann, Rosanne Cash and Phoebe Bridgers.

On A Tom Waits Covers Album, Women Transform A Classic Catalog

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Rosanne Cash On The Importance Of Living Out Loud

Rosanne Cash's latest album, She Remembers Everything, is a collection of personal songs all written or co-written by Cash. Michael Lavine/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Rosanne Cash On The Importance Of Living Out Loud

Cash's latest album, She Remembers Everything, cuts a path through gun violence, sexism and the relentless march of time. "There's no point in hedging my bets about what I write about anymore."

Rosanne Cash On The Importance Of Living Out Loud

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'I Love Men Very Much, But...': Rosanne Cash On Telling Women's Stories

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'I Love Men Very Much, But...': Rosanne Cash On Telling Women's Stories

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One of America's great storytellers explains the urgent need she felt to tell female stories on her latest album, She Remembers Everything.

Rosanne Cash On World Cafe

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New Music Friday For Nov. 2: 8 Albums You Need To Hear Now

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New Music Friday For Nov. 2: 8 Albums You Need To Hear Now

This week's sprint through the best new albums, out on Nov. 2, includes the Flamenco-pop of Rosalía, profoundly moving reflections from Marianne Faithful, fuzz-pop from Stove and more.

New Music Friday For Nov. 2: 8 Albums You Need To Hear Now

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Rosanne Cash And John Leventhal On Song Travels

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Rosanne Cash And John Leventhal On Song Travels

"I love working with him," Cash says of Levanthal, her husband. "It's the ultimate romance to me."

Rosanne Cash And John Leventhal In The Studio

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Ken Tucker's Top 9 Albums Of 2014, Plus A Book

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The Best Music Of 2014

Ken Tucker's Top 9 Albums Of 2014, Plus A Book

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Making new sounds while staying mindful of the past is a common theme in the Fresh Air music critic's year-end list.

Ken Tucker's Top 9 Albums Of 2014, Plus A Book

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Rosanne Cash On World Cafe

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Rosanne Cash On World Cafe

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Listen to new songs performed on the World Cafe Live stage, inspired by a series of journeys she and husband John Leventhal took through Johnny Cash's South.

Rosanne Cash On World Cafe

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Rosanne Cash: Seeking A 'Thread' Through Southern History

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Rosanne Cash: Seeking A 'Thread' Through Southern History

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Ken Tucker says The River & The Thread is a travelogue; a timeless work of comfort and quiet joy.

Rosanne Cash: Seeking A 'Thread' Through Southern History

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First Listen: Rosanne Cash, 'The River & The Thread'

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First Listen: Rosanne Cash, 'The River & The Thread'

Each song on Cash's new album is rooted in the Southern soil connecting her family's old homestead in Arkansas to its ancestral Virginia homeland, expanding to survey its artistic roots in Alabama and Tennessee. Some narratives are fictional, while others mine family lore.

The River & The Thread

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Rosanne Cash's Mythic Southern Road Trip

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Rosanne Cash's Mythic Southern Road Trip

The River & the Thread, Cash's first album in eight years, began with a visit to her father's boyhood home, and continued through landmarks great and small. "The things you push away the hardest when you're young, you end up embracing when you get older," she says.

Rosanne Cash's Mythic Southern Road Trip

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Rosanne Cash On World Cafe

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World Cafe

Rosanne Cash On World Cafe

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Two things have come together for Cash in recent years: her deepening understanding of her place in her father Johnny Cash's legacy, and her desire to only make albums that expand on a theme.

Rosanne Cash On World Cafe

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Rosanne Cash Sails The 'Sea Of Heartbreak'
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Rosanne Cash Sails The 'Sea Of Heartbreak'

Cash has a new album on which she sings one of the most famous lines in country music: "The lights in the harbor don't shine for me." That's from the Hal David and Paul Hampton classic, "Sea of Heartbreak." Many artists have recorded this song in the past half-century, and Cash recently sat down with NPR's Steve Inskeep to discuss its history and significance.

Rosanne Cash Sails The 'Sea Of Heartbreak'

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