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

Lyric Of The Day #23 (January 19, 2021)

This lying, and cryin', it's upsettin' and gettin' ya no where.

It don't stack up, so slack up and pack up,

I just don't care.

Don't let the screen door hit you, on your way out.

Don't you drown when your dream boat runs onto the ground.

 

http://ramblingrhoads.blogspot.com/2014/07/43-smoke-from-distant-fire-sanford.html

 

One. More. Day.

Phil Spector

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/phil-spector-lionized-producer-of-1960s-pop-and- convicted-murderer-dies-at-81/2021/01/17/92b66e42-9c5a-11ea-a2b3-5c3f2d1586df_story.html

 

Screwed-up people make great art. (OK, GrooveLily’s song from their Striking 12 musical was about Hans Christian Andersen, but it definitely applies here as well.)

 

Favorite songs:

You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' – The Righteous Brothers

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love

Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts – Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans

There’s No Other Like My Baby – The Crystals

Spanish Harlem – Ben E. King

Ebb Tide – The Righteous Brothers

Be My Baby – The Ronettes

He’s A Rebel – The Crystals*

Hung On You – The Righteous Brothers

Do I Love You – The Ronettes

 

* - actually performed by Darlene Love and the Blossoms