In one sense, Rosanne Cash has been writing her memoir since she was a teenager, passing on her most private thoughts through dozens of songs over 15 albums. Cash doesn't sing on her records as much as she simply spills over, letting the highs, lows and anxious moments of her famously led life overflow into her compositions. Fans know her well.
Still, putting together an actual autobiography for a publisher required a different set of skills. Prose is, as she puts it, "a bigger forest" than songwriting. Finding your way through it takes more time.
And while Cash's musical material, drawn largely from her own experiences -- most notably (and wrenchingly) the death of her father, Johnny Cash, and her divorce from singer Rodney Crowell -- certainly rings true, its not necessarily factual.
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