As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, January 22, 2021

LP #40 Rosanne Cash – The River & The Thread (2014)

[Meant to post this last month …]

 

This is almost certainly one of the best albums ever by an artist old enough to be eligible for AARP. Cash describes it as “a mini-travelogue of the South, and of the soul”; all of the tracks are co-written by Cash and producer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist/husband John Leventhal (with an assist from ex-hubby Rodney Crowell on “When The Master Calls The Roll”). It won three Grammy awards, including Best Americana Album, and also packs quite a punch when performed live.

 

Favorite tracks:

A Feather’s Not A Bird

50,000 Watts

The Sunken Lands

When The Master Calls The Roll

Modern Blue

Money Road

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