ROSANNE CASH’S BLACK CADILLAC TO BE RELEASED JANUARY 24 BY CAPITOL RECORDS

CASH CONFRONTS LOSS AND LEGACY OF HER ICONIC FATHER, STEPMOTHER AND MOTHER IN BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM

Rosanne Cash’s Black Cadillac, to be released January 24 by Capitol Records, is perhaps the most compelling release of her distinguished career. She wrote the twelve-song musical memoir over roughly two years in which she lost her father Johnny Cash, her stepmother June Carter Cash, and her mother Vivian Liberto Cash Distin. Yet Black Cadillac is remarkable not just for the context in which it was created, but for the defining achievement it represents in the scope of Rosanne’s own artistry and life. She describes the album as “a personal history and an overview of my ancestry,” and also as “a fusion of songs, musicians, and producers that was a dream and a dream fulfilled at the same time.” With Black Cadillac, Rosanne confronts her family legacy as never before while simultaneously pursuing her own bold creative path with renewed commitment.

Though she is heir to such a rich lineage, Rosanne has always been an artist of her own time, following a thoroughly independent vision from the outset of her career. She has earned continued critical praise, GRAMMY Awards and nominations, and eleven ..1 singles relying on her own singular voice and sound, songwriting style and life experience. On the new album, Rosanne presents herself in her totality, seamlessly integrating all of this with echoes of her forebears’ music and an explicit acknowledgment of her place in the family line. [ read more ]