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I first heard Rosanne Cash way back in 1981, when her crossover hit
Seven
Year Ache started getting major airplay on the pop stations I
listened to back then. Ache is the kind of song that grabs
your attention
and then holds on, with a rhythm and a musical line that never deviate
and yet somehow build in intensity. But after such an auspicious entry
into pop, Ms. Cash returned to her roots. And as those roots are in
the terra incognita (to me at least) of country, I lost
interest.
The recent passing of her father, mother and stepmother inspired this
latest work. As we might have guessed from that inspiration,
Black Cadillac is poetic, contemplative and not exactly
upbeat. And yet it's not a downer either; in loss she finds comfort
and understanding, honoring those she's lost while ackowledging both
the good and the bad in their humanity. I particularly like
God
Is In the Roses,
which in its calm and gentle center tries to find balance in the
universe. Without dwelling on it, it betrays a different kind of ache
from Ache.
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