180g Vinyl! Roseanne Is Joined By Kris Kristofferson, Derek Trucks, John Paul White & More!
2015 Grammy Award Winner for:
Best Americana Album
Best American Roots Performance - "A Feather's Not A Bird"
Best American Roots Song - "A Feather's Not A Bird"
The River & The Thread is Rosanne Cashs first album in more than four years and is released by Blue Note Records. Cash wrote the album's 11 original songs with her longtime collaborator (and husband) John Leventhal, who also served as producer, arranger and guitarist.
The Chicago Tribune hailed Cashs 2010 bestselling memoir, Composed, as "one of the best accounts of an American life you will likely ever read." With The River & The Thread, Cash turns her attention to other American lives and locations. The album richly evokes the Southern landscape physical, musical, emotional and examines the indelible impressions it has made on our own collective culture and on Cash.
The River & The Thread is sweeping in its breadth, capturing a unique, multi-generational cast of characters from a Civil War soldier off to fight in Virginia to a New Deal-era farmer in Arkansas to a contemporary Mobile, AL couple. While Cash and Leventhal found inspiration in the many musical styles associated with the South swampy Delta blues, gospel, Appalachian folk, country and rock, to name a few this is a completely contemporary collection. Cashs crystalline voice and Leventhals compelling guitar work are at the heart of the album, and they bring in additional instrumentation to suit the tone of each particular song from the delicate orchestral passages of Night School, (which nods to Stephen Foster, who also had a deep affection for the South) to the ghostly keyboards of album closer Money Road.
The River & The Thread follows 2009s The List, which was named Album of the Year by the Americana Music Association and nominated for two GRAMMY Awards.
"If I never make another album I will be content, because I made this one," says Cash of The River & The Thread, which is a marked departure from her earlier works.
She was joined in the studio by a cast of friends and fellow musicians who also have a deep affection for and/or roots in the South, including Cory Chisel, Rodney Crowell (who also co-wrote one song), Amy Helm, Kris Kristofferson, Allison Moorer, John Prine, Derek Trucks, John Paul White (The Civil Wars), Tony Joe White and Gabe Witcher (The Punch Brothers.)
"The often dreamy, 'swampy' arrangements and the intimate, closely miked production by John Leventhal are tastefully populated with shimmering acoustic guitars, small string groupings and tasteful use of strategically layered background vocals. The music is appropriately country-like but not 'country' per se, which is appropriate for observations made by an urban couple even if one has Memphis roots...This album has received a great deal of hype. It lives up to it and then some. High quality music and album-making that's highly recommended." - analogplanet, Music 9/11, Sound 8/11
Features:
180g Vinyl LP
Selections:
Side A:
1. A Feather's Not A Bird
2. The Sunken Lands
3. Etta's Tune
4. Modern Blue
5. Tell Heaven
6. The Long Way Home
Side B:
1. World of Strange Design
2. Night School
3. 50,000 Watts
4. When the Master Calls the Roll
5. Money Road
2015 Grammy Award Winner for:
Best Americana Album
Best American Roots Performance - "A Feather's Not A Bird"
Best American Roots Song - "A Feather's Not A Bird"
The River & The Thread is Rosanne Cashs first album in more than four years and is released by Blue Note Records. Cash wrote the album's 11 original songs with her longtime collaborator (and husband) John Leventhal, who also served as producer, arranger and guitarist.
The Chicago Tribune hailed Cashs 2010 bestselling memoir, Composed, as "one of the best accounts of an American life you will likely ever read." With The River & The Thread, Cash turns her attention to other American lives and locations. The album richly evokes the Southern landscape physical, musical, emotional and examines the indelible impressions it has made on our own collective culture and on Cash.
The River & The Thread is sweeping in its breadth, capturing a unique, multi-generational cast of characters from a Civil War soldier off to fight in Virginia to a New Deal-era farmer in Arkansas to a contemporary Mobile, AL couple. While Cash and Leventhal found inspiration in the many musical styles associated with the South swampy Delta blues, gospel, Appalachian folk, country and rock, to name a few this is a completely contemporary collection. Cashs crystalline voice and Leventhals compelling guitar work are at the heart of the album, and they bring in additional instrumentation to suit the tone of each particular song from the delicate orchestral passages of Night School, (which nods to Stephen Foster, who also had a deep affection for the South) to the ghostly keyboards of album closer Money Road.
The River & The Thread follows 2009s The List, which was named Album of the Year by the Americana Music Association and nominated for two GRAMMY Awards.
"If I never make another album I will be content, because I made this one," says Cash of The River & The Thread, which is a marked departure from her earlier works.
She was joined in the studio by a cast of friends and fellow musicians who also have a deep affection for and/or roots in the South, including Cory Chisel, Rodney Crowell (who also co-wrote one song), Amy Helm, Kris Kristofferson, Allison Moorer, John Prine, Derek Trucks, John Paul White (The Civil Wars), Tony Joe White and Gabe Witcher (The Punch Brothers.)
"The often dreamy, 'swampy' arrangements and the intimate, closely miked production by John Leventhal are tastefully populated with shimmering acoustic guitars, small string groupings and tasteful use of strategically layered background vocals. The music is appropriately country-like but not 'country' per se, which is appropriate for observations made by an urban couple even if one has Memphis roots...This album has received a great deal of hype. It lives up to it and then some. High quality music and album-making that's highly recommended." - analogplanet, Music 9/11, Sound 8/11
Features:
180g Vinyl LP
Selections:
Side A:
1. A Feather's Not A Bird
2. The Sunken Lands
3. Etta's Tune
4. Modern Blue
5. Tell Heaven
6. The Long Way Home
Side B:
1. World of Strange Design
2. Night School
3. 50,000 Watts
4. When the Master Calls the Roll
5. Money Road
