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Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac Audio CD

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Rosanne Cash Band: Rosanne Cash
Title: Black Cadillac
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Release Date: 2006-01-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Black Cadillac 2: Radio Operator 3: I Was Watching You 4: Burn Down This Town 5: God Is In The Roses 6: House On The Lake 7: The World Unseen 8: Like Fugitives 9: Dreams Are Not My Home 10: Like A Wave 11: World Without Sound 12: Good Intent 13: 0:71

Excellent
Music to express the loss of her father, just great music throughout. This is one of my all time favorite CDs.


The Critics Are Right
com and the critics loved this album so Black Cadillac intriqued me, not only cuz a critic called it her crowned acheivement but because it was written and recorded during a 22 month period where first her father Johnny Cash died, then her step mother June and then in May of that year her own mother. I bought this album because on a lark I started looking up Rosanne Cash on allmusic.

Despite the fact that she was eventually left an orphan at 50, and her family isn't your typical Mom & Pop situation, the album delves into pain, remorse, anger and regression; all universal themes and not a single one done with a hint of self pity - you won't find any "I wish we had more time together" type of songs; in fact Rosanne questions and ponders and leaves everything so matter of factly, it's almost ingenius.

Opening the set with a taped vocal of Johnny calling for "C'mon Rosanne" before breaking into the title track, "It was a black cadillac that took you away. . . " the song doesn't hide any emotion as she calmly and clearly realizes her father is walking in Heaven and this place is lonely, but it was always was. The song jumps in with guitars and drums and ever so slightly background of the melody to "Ring Of Fire" - a very clever little add I think.

In other songs, there are questions and conversions of religion on "God Is In The Roses" (and in the thorns), "World Without Sound" (I wish I was a Christian/ but I can't believe/ cause no one in the Bible craves my company) and in the excellant "Like Fugitives" with a chorus that touches on many feelings I have, and could be argued (at least by me) has a sentiment that could defend gay rights - "it's a strange new world where the church leads us to Hell/ and the lawyers get the money for the lives they buy and sell/ and the only dreams we believe in are up on the screen/ so we live lives as fugitives/ when we were meant to live as queens" - okay, I'm stretching the gay thing but it makes me laugh to think she could be putting that in there. . . as for the music, like most of Rosanne Cash's stuff this isn't easily classible, part Mary Chapin-Carpenter (though time line would show Mary would've been influenced by Rosanne herself), part pop/ part blues.

As I have discovered, Rosanne has always made very intriguing albums both lyrically and musically and I have to agree this has got to be one of her best - her second according to the masses is Interiors, which I also recently purchased and while Black Cadillac deals with loss and the realization that one has to and will live through it, Interiors is a ten song opus into the deterioration of a marriage, so you can bet that will be reviewed sometime soon.

As for this album, the songs are great including "Dreams Are Not My Home" and "Radio Operator" both very upbeat little odes - in fact the sequencing is great as there are not all ballads, she can convey all her emotions in any format and does it quite well. As a very striking tribute the 13th track titled "0:71" is actually 71 seconds of silence - Johnny Cash died at the age of 71.
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Excellent CD
I like both the music and the lyrics all the way through. This is a great CD. I'd recommend it to anybody. It's a truly heartfelt piece of work.


Rosanne Cash "Black Cadillac"
Absolutely great cd - don't have to be a country lover to enjoy her voice and lyrics!.


Be prepared to bare your soul
But, it was a great CD. I love Johhny Cash as well as Rosanne so perhaps I am biased. It was almost a religious experience listening to it, especially the song, "God is in the roses (and the thorns)".


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