D I S C O G R A P H Y B I O G R A P H Y  
Rosanne Cash Right or Wrong Seven Year Ache Somewhere
in the Stars		 Rhythm and
Romance
King's Record
Shop		 Hits 1979-1989 Interiors The Wheel Retrospective
 
Ten Song Demo Rules of Travel The Very Best of Rosanne Cash Black Cadillac  
Rosanne Cash (top)
(Ariola Germany, 1978)
"A collectors' item"—Vh1.com
Right or Wrong (top)
(Columbia, 1979)
"Right or Wrong is a crisp mixture of the best of Nashville country and L.A. rock."—Rolling Stone
Seven Year Ache (top)
(Columbia, 1981)
Seven Year Ache: "On her fine, hard-edge second album, Cash does a cunning variation on a trick that female rock & rollers have been pulling for a long (but few as obsessively or wittily). She takes tunes by men and about men and switches the gender, crooning—in her unmannered, wafting tenor—all those plots about leaving lovers and getting the urge to light out for the territory."—Rolling Stone
Somewhere in the Stars (top)
(Columbia, 1982)
Somewhere in the Stars: "Cash pursues a kind of minimalist country music that's lyrically fixated on emotional ambivalence, the slippery feelings diametrically opposed to the simple, direct emotions of traditional country lyrics....There is a stillness at the center of her singing—part patience, part paralysis—from which she weighs both sides of the romantic crisis." —Rolling Stone

Rhythm and Romance (top)
(Columbia, 1985)
"Wise and thoughtful"—Rolling Stone
"...few singers are as completely credible as she is here." —J.D. Considine

King's Record Shop (top)
(Columbia, 1987)
King's Record Shop: "Cash...has one of the most expressive voices and strongest instincts for rhythm in a country music, and her more sober approach suits the material she and Crowell are choosing these days."—People
"Far more sober than her previous album, King's Record Shop rips into vital veins and arteries of emotional, from the visceral nakedness of 'The Real Me'...to her slant-eyed, bluesy, and definitive interpretation of...'I Don't Have to Crawl.'"—Stereo Review

Hits 1979-1989 (top)
(Columbia, 1989)
Rosanne Cash: Hits 1979-1989: "She's got a half-past-4-in-the-morning voice and knowing way with a song that can make any listener wish the night would go on forever."—Time

Interiors (top)
(Columbia, 1990)
Interiors "Is a great record....Producing herself for the first time, Cash succeeds in creating deceptively placid settings teeming with dangerous undercurrents. This is acoustic-based music as articulate and biting as any heard since Elvis Costello's King of America....Interiors flies in the face of the happy-ending fairy tales that pass for entertainment in this country."—Rolling Stone
"Its confessional honesty and utter lack of pretense make Interiors a frightfully courageous work. It's a powerful statement on those shadowy, sometimes treacherous emotional shoals that lurk beneath the surface of everyday politeness, ritual, and pretending."—Country Music
"Rosanne Cash has really got it bad this time, and that turns out to be good. Her seventh album is all about hurtin; and it's not just the pain lovers inflict on each other."—US

The Wheel (top)
(Columbia, 1993)
The Wheel: "Cash never lets her writing outdistance her signing....The first single uses sparse acoustic musical backing to capture a feeling of urban isolation: bustling and lonely, 'Seventh Avenue' is a long way from Nashville....She intuitively maintains this tricky balance and even makes the tension work in her favor....Trying to construct a more adventurous second career is tough, but Cash is building on solid ground."—US
"If another record comes out in 1993 that aches as sweetly as this one, it'll be a big surprise."—Pulse!
"This crystal-clear, intensely sung record rings startlingly true as it details the end of a marriage—and the renewal that can follow." (Best Albums of the Year, #7)—Entertainment Weekly

Retrospective (top)
(Columbia, 1995)
Retrospective: "This gathers original album cuts, outtakes, and six new songs from 1982 to the present (1995). The mood is dark and dreamy, but...[Cash] is as transcendent as ever."—Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A)
"More a footnote than a retrospective, this odd overview serves as an evocative reminder of Rosanne Cash's trailblazing during the past 15 years... Cash's staunch, articulate attitude and her penchant for folk-rock stretched the boundaries of popular country music... There's a lot of wisdom in these here grooves."—Rolling Stone

Ten Song Demo (top)
(Capitol, 1996)
10 Song Demo: "Cash knows that bare-bones doesn't mean tuneless. Demo's spare arrangements reinforce the sturdiness of her melodies."—Entertainment Weekly
"Eloquent tributes to various moments in her life, like a trip to Paris ('The Summer I Read Colette') and the aging process ('Take My Body') fill the record...Because 10 Song was actually recorded as a demo, using only acoustic guitar on most tracks, there's little in the way of production to distract from Cash's expressive voice—a heart-wrench alto that can stand alone any day."—US

  Rules of Travel (top)
(Capitol, 2003)
"As the just-released Rules of Travel proves, her music was worth the wait. Its 11 tracks re-establish Cash as one of our most literate singer-songwriters. Each tune is crafted with smart, insightful lyrics, buoyed by Beatlesque, folk-pop guitar riffs and sung in a voice that's both warm and wise." –Performing Songwriter
"The intelligence and grace of Rosanne Cash has been largely absent of late on the country landscape, and for that reason alone, new material from her is welcome...
A complete success." – Billboard
  The Very Best of Rosanne Cash (top)
(Legacy, 2005)
"The real hits, like "My Baby Thinks He's a Train" and "Tennessee Flat Top Box" are here.... But it's in the tracks like "What We Really Want," "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me," and "Sleeping in Paris" where the balance and depth of Cash's contribution really come to light. This set also has a previously unreleased version of "Never Be You." There are 16 cuts in all, and each of them is a pearl. This is as fitting an introduction to an artist as country music has ever produced. She's ultimately unclassifiable, and one suspects from the candid comments she makes in Alanna Nash's liner essay that she likes it that way. Highly recommended." —Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
  Black Cadillac (top)
(Capitol, 2006)
"...no easy sentimentality; Cash, whose greatest skill was always as a writer, knows honesty and understatement" —The Guardian
"...one of the most meaningful and musically significant works of her career" —CMT.com
"With her characteristic sense of craft and precision, Ms. Cash explores a kaleidoscopic range of experiences..." —New York Times

G U E S T  A P P E A R A N C E S
 Researched and compiled by Bobby Howeth
Date Artist Album or DVD Song/Track
1981   Leon Helm & Friends White Mansions: A Tale From The American Civil War/The Legend Of Jesse James "The Role Of Ma Samuel"
1981 Rodney Crowell Rodney Crowell "Stars On The Water" (background vocals)
1983 Rosemary Butler  Rose ""
1984 Various Artists   Every Man Has A Woman (The Songs of Yoko Ono) "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do"
1985 Vince Gill The Things That Matter "If It Weren't For Him"
1986 Lyle Lovett Lyle Lovett ""
1987 Vince Gill Way Back Home ""
1988 John Kilzner Memory In The Making ""
1988 Johnny Cash Water From The Wells Of Home "Ballad Of A Teenage Queen"
1988 Rodney Crowell Diamonds & Dirt "It's Such A Small World"
1989 Guy Clark Old Friends ""
1989 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Farther Along (DVD) "One Step Over The Line" (with John Hiatt)
1989 Various Artists Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol.II "One Step Over The Line" (w/John Hiatt)
1990 Various Artists Acoustic Christmas "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
1992 G. E. Smith & the SNL Band Get A Little ""
1992 Greg Trooper & The Flatirons Everywhere "Blind Spot" (Harmony Vocals) Ripe & Ready Records"
1992 John Stewart Bullets in the Hour Glass "Women"
1992 Mary-Chapin Carpenter Come On, Come On "Come On,Come On" (background vocals)
1992 Maura O'Connell Blue Is The Colour Of Hope "It Still Hurts Sometimes;I Would Be Stronger Than That" (background vocals)
1992 Various Artists Til Their Eyes Shine...The Lullaby Album "Carrie"
1993 Darden Smith Little Victories ""
1993 John Stewart Punch The Big Guy "Angels With Guns; The Price Of Fire" (background vocals)
1993 Various Artists Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (w/Mary-Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin)
1994 Carly Simon Letters Never Sent ""
1994 Tom Chapin Billy The Squid ""
1994 Various Artists The Best of Columbia Records  Radio Hour, Vol. I "What We Really Want" (w/ David Byrne, John Leventhal, & Zev Katz); Wouldn't It Be Loverly" (w/John Leventhal); Cry Of A Tiny Babe" (w/Bruce Cockburn, Lou Reed & Rob Wasserman)
1995 John Stewart Airdream Believer ""
1995 Various Artists Spirit of '73: Rock For Choice "River"
1995 Various Artists Til The Night Is Gone: A Tribute To Doc Pomus "I Count The Tears"
1997 Various Artists Time & Love: The Music of Laura Nyro "Save The Country"
1998 John Hiatt Greatest Hits "The Way We Make A Broken Heart" (w/John Hiatt)
1998 Jules Shear Between Us "Who's Dreaming Who" (w/Jules Shear)
1998 Larry Kirwan Keltic Kids ""
1998 Marc Cohn Burning the Daze ""
1998 Randy Scruggs Crown of Jewels "My Secret Life"
1998 Various Artists Tammy Wynette...Remembered "D-I-V-O-R-C-E"
1999 Various Artists Searching for Jimi Hendrix "Manic Depression"
2000 Various Artists Transatlantic Sessions, Vol. I "September, When It Comes"
2000 Various Artists Transatlantic Sessions, Vol. II "Forty Shades of Green" (w/Paul Brady)
2001 Earl Scruggs Earl Scruggs and Friends "I Found Love" (w/ Vince Gill and Rosanne Cash)
2002 Various Artists Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to The Songs of Johnny Cash "I Still Miss Someone"
2003 The Chieftains Further Down The Old Plank Road "Lily Of The West"
2004 Jonathan Elias American River "The Continuance" (with Johnny Cash)
2004 Various Artists Mary Had A Little Amp "How To Be Strong"
2005 Various Artists Austin City Limits Music Festival 2004 (DVD) "Seven Year Ache"
2006 Tom Wilson Dog Years "Talk Of The Town"
2006 Various Artists The Pilgrim - A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson "Lovin' Him Was Easier" (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)

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