Columbia/Legacy Reissues Early Albums and A New Compilation

November 1st, 2005: Columbia/Legacy has released expanded editions of Seven Year Ache (1981), King’s Record Shop (1987), and Interiors (1990), plus a new collection spanning 1979-2003, The Very Best Of Rosanne Cash. Bonus tracks include previously unreleased live tracks and studio recordings, demo and b-side material, with new liner notes written by veteran journalists Chet Flippo, Geoffrey Himes, Anthony DeCurtis, and Alanna Nash.

“Rosanne Cash’s career was a touchstone over the years of the shifting attitudes of the national audience and media to country music and Nashville artists.  She was an agent of change in that shift.  During her reign, that attitude changed gradually from one of often-outright hostility or ridicule to one of a gradual understanding, followed by an embrace.  Her thoughtful approach to the country music ideal and central theme – that of music centered on the verities of everyday life and its ultimate goals and values – focused attention on country music’s strengths and possibilities.”

– Chet Flippo, from his liner notes to the new
    expanded edition of SEVEN YEAR ACHE

Twenty five years after the release of her first album on Columbia Records – which debuted on the C&W charts one week after her 25th birthday – Rosanne Cash can reflect upon one of the most prolific and influential careers in music.  The first decade and a half of that career, encompassing seven unique studio albums (and her first ‘Hits’ package), took place at Columbia Records, where Rosanne’s tumultuous life and times played out on the world stage for everyone to witness – ups, downs and in-betweens.

Scheduled to arrive in stores November 1st on Columbia/Legacy, a division of Sony BMG, are newly remastered expanded editions – each with bonus tracks and newly commissioned liner notes essays – of three studio albums from divergent times in Rosanne’s career, plus a brand new collection.  These four titles comprise:

SEVEN YEAR ACHE (1981), Rosanne’s breakthrough second Columbia LP, produced by her (then) husband Rodney Crowell, with her first three consecutive #1 C&W hits (“Seven Year Ache,” “My Baby Thinks He’s A Train,” “Blue Moon With Heartache”), plus two previously unreleased bonus tracks (one studio, one live) [buy]

KING’S RECORD SHOP (1987), the fifth album, with its record-setting four consecutive #1 C&W hits (“The Way We Make A Broken Heart,” “Tennessee Flat Top Box,” “If You Change Your Mind,” “Runaway Train”), plus three bonus tracks including a single B-side and two previously unreleased live tour-band numbers [buy]

INTERIORS (1990), Rosanne’s first self-produced album, a dark and introspective song cycle of the dissolution of her marriage, whose most affecting songs still haunt today – “Dance With the Tiger,” “Real Woman,” “On The Inside,” “What We Really Want,” “Paralyzed” – plus four bonus tracks, two of them previously unreleased [buy]

THE VERY BEST OF ROSANNE CASH (2005), her first newly remastered collection in a decade – and most extensive CD package available today – 16 tracks, including 10 C&W chart hits (with six #1’s), five well-chosen album tracks (including cuts from her first two Capitol releases – and Johnny Cash’s final vocal duet, on “September When It Comes”), and one previously unreleased alternate version [buy]

The four albums precede the scheduled release on January 24, 2006, of Rosanne’s third album for Capitol Records, entitled Black Cadillac.  The new studio album is dedicated to her father Johnny Cash (who died on September 12, 2003), her stepmother June Carter Cash (who died on May 15, 2003), and her mother (Johnny’s first wife) Vivian Liberto (who died on the day of Rosanne’s 50th birthday, May 24, 2005).