There are performers. Musicians. Entertainers.
Then there are artists.
Ms. Rosanne Cash is an artist. Breathtakingly talented and gifted. Her new release is Black Cadillac, which is the artistic culmination of her recent life experience - losing three parents in one year: her stepmother (June Carter Cash) in May, and then, of course, her father's (Johnny Cash) death on September 12. Then two years later, again in May, her mother passed away.
Rosanne has been doing a lot of press recently (The NYT, TIME Magazine, etc.) but I really need to quote a line from the NYT article, because she siccintly summed up exactly what I had been feeling, dealing with losing my mother...
You kind of get transformed when you lose your parents. There's nobody to rebel against, nobody to report to.
This album is stunning and gorgeous. I've only had a chance to listen to it once, but the standouts are Black Cadillac, House On The Hill, and Burn Down This Town. The enhanced CD features a "video portrait" which is also beautiful and magnificently done.
Superlatives fail me. Go buy it.
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