WHETHER in her 20s or her 50s, Rosanne Cash smoulders on her album covers. The daughter of Johnny Cash is no femme fatale or siren. Her own songs -- she rarely records those of others -- speak of deep aching loss and great love, but from a position of strength. Ms Cash brings the same intensity to her interactions with friends and strangers on Twitter. She recently used that medium to assemble a set list of requests for a concert recorded and filmed in her living room. Songs were drawn from a retrospective album released in April.
Ms Cash lives her life rather openly on Twitter. "I have a ton of manic energy and my synapses fire all day long," she confesses. Her husband is grateful for the outlet. On a recent day, when Babbage rang, Ms Cash was seeing off the author of a knitting book who had just stopped by to offer a lesson. They had met on Twitter.
To assemble "The Essential Rosanne Cash", the singer asked Kenneth Walsh, a former New York Times news-service editor and another Twitter acquaintance, for assistance. Mr Walsh recalls more about Ms Cash's recording history than her, she says. "He had a song I sang on a soundtrack to a film that was never released."
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