{"id":15414,"date":"2019-05-23T23:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1806939"},"modified":"2019-05-23T23:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T05:00:21","slug":"10-rosanne-cash-songs-that-cry-out-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/10-rosanne-cash-songs-that-cry-out-for-love\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Rosanne Cash Songs That Cry Out for Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">31m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/rosanne-cash\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rosanne Cash<\/a>\u2019s span as a chart-claiming country artist lasted from 1979 to 1993, a period that paralleled almost exactly the time she was married to fellow singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell. What one circumstance had to do with the other is a question best left to biographers. But what is certain is that the songs Cash wrote, recorded and propelled to the top were dark and foreboding, depicting a personality not sure of itself and always under emotional siege.<\/p>\n<p>Cash turns 64 Friday (May 24) and is currently promoting her new album, <em>She Remembers Everything<\/em>. Judging from the title cut, which she wrote with Sam Phillips, there are still wounds left to heal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"50bd4973\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"><noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-158492964-1558621257.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-158492964-1558621257.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-158492964-1558621257.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-158492964-1558621257.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-158492964-1558621257.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-158492964-1558621257.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-158492964-1558621257.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-158492964-1558621257.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"Roseanne Cash At Park West\" class=\"js-srcset-img shortcode-image\" alt><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\">Kirk West\/Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 1980, she set the tone that has prevailed throughout her career with \u201cCouldn\u2019t Do Nothin\u2019 Right.\u201d Although she didn\u2019t write the song, she invests it with all the cracked-china vulnerability that would persist through her 11 No. 1 singles (including her Grammy-winning \u201cI Don\u2019t Know Why You Don\u2019t Want Me\u201d (1985)) and eight albums for Columbia Records.<\/p>\n<p>Following her divorce from Crowell in 1992, Cash moved to New York and began establishing a literary presence there, even as she was switching her musical focus from country to what has come to be called \u201cAmericana\u201d music. She has written four books and edited a fifth and has had stories and articles published in <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, <em>The Oxford American<\/em> and <em>The New York Times<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"beb3285f\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"><noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-639544224-1558621320.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-639544224-1558621320.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-639544224-1558621320.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-639544224-1558621320.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-639544224-1558621320.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-639544224-1558621320.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-639544224-1558621320.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-639544224-1558621320.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"Rosanne Cash And Rodney Crowell Perform with Surprise Guest Johnny Cash\" class=\"js-srcset-img shortcode-image\" alt><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\">Rick Diamond\/Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The year 2015 was a banner one for Cash, beginning with winning three Grammys for Americana and American roots recordings and concluding with her induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, an institution in which her father, Johnny Cash, has held membership since 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a 10-song sampling of the music that best portrays Cash\u2019s singing and songwriting. The voice she adopts is that of a woman unappreciated, under loved and discarded. Observed at a distance, such relentless introspection can be a drag. But with Cash, it\u2019s like watching a skilled helmsman navigate troubled waters, tacking this way and that to minimize the impact of the waves and finding a kind of fulfillment simply in not capsizing. It makes for an exhausting voyage, of course. But it beats the hell out of sinking.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"listicle-container\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">1980: \u201cCouldn\u2019t Do Nothin\u2019 Right\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>No. 15<\/p>\n<p>Writers: Karen Brooks, Gary Nunn<\/p>\n<p>Key lyrics: \u201cI couldn\u2019t stay here if I wanted\/I couldn\u2019t stay here if I tried\/You were always so disappointed in me\/I could never do nothin\u2019 right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">1981: \u201cSeven Year Ache\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>No. 1<\/p>\n<p>Writer: Rosanne Cash<\/p>\n<p>Key lyrics: \u201cEverybody\u2019s talking but you don\u2019t hear a thing\/You\u2019re still uptown on your downhill swing\/Boulevard\u2019s empty, why don\u2019t you come around?\/Baby, what is so great about sleeping downtown?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">1982: \u201cBlue Moon With Heartache\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>No. 1<\/p>\n<p>Writer: Cash<\/p>\n<p>Key lyrics: \u201cWhat would I give to be a diamond in your eyes again\/What would I give to bring back those old times\/What did I say to make your cold heart bleed this way?\/Maybe I\u2019ll just go away today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">1985: \u201cI Don\u2019t Know Why You Don\u2019t Want Me\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>No. 1<\/p>\n<p>Writers: Cash, Rodney Crowell<\/p>\n<p>Key lyrics: \u201cJust when I think that I can make it without you\/you come round and say you want me now\/You tell me don\u2019t leave and I want to believe you\/Why can\u2019t you see just how much I need you?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">1986: \u201cSecond to No One\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>No. 5<\/p>\n<p>Writer: Cash<\/p>\n<p>Key lyrics: \u201cI don\u2019t think you know how bad you treat me\/but I can\u2019t live like a whore\/She thinks she\u2019s got the key to your heart\/Now I\u2019ve got to wait by the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">1987: \u201cThe Way We Make a Broken Heart\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>No. 1<\/p>\n<p>Writer: John Hiatt<\/p>\n<p>This song looks at heartbreak from \u201cthe other woman\u2019s\u201d vantage point\u2013but with a guilty awareness of what betrayal feels like. Key lyrics: \u201cJust one more kiss she\u2019ll have to miss this night with you\/Now you\u2019re guilty of this secret love as I am too\/You\u2019ll get used to telling lies feeling sorry when she cries\/Now that the strings aren\u2019t attached you\u2019ll catch on we\u2019ve done our part\/Oh this is the way we make a broken heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">1988: \u201cIf You Change Your Mind\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>No. 1<\/p>\n<p>Writers: Cash, Hank DeVito<\/p>\n<p>Key lyrics: \u201cCall me on the telephone\/Darling, I am always home\/if you ever change your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">1990: \u201cWhat We Really Want\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>No. 39<\/p>\n<p>Writer: Cash<\/p>\n<p>Key lyrics: \u201cI want to call out your name I want to hold out my hand\/A woman silent in the mirror tonight wants to talk to your mirror man\/ and what they really want is love, and what they really need is love.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">1991: \u201cOn the Surface\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>No. 69<\/p>\n<p>Writers: Cash, Jimmy Tittle<\/p>\n<p>Key lyrics: \u201cMaybe our lives will never be the same\/but we can face tomorrow if we can just get through today\/I\u2019m holding back the tears while you\u2019re pushing me away\/But on the surface everything\u2019s okay\/ yeah on the surface everything\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cShe Remembers Everything\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Writers: Cash, Leslie A. Phillips<\/p>\n<p>Key lyrics: \u201cWho knows who she used to be before it all went dark\/Was she like a streak of fire, a painted glass, a beating heart?\/All the mirrors, all the smoke she\u2019ll read a thousand times\/versions of the third degree, yours and hers and mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1806939\/10-rosanne-cash-songs-that-cry-out-for-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 31m ago Rosanne Cash\u2019s span as a chart-claiming country artist lasted from 1979 to 1993, a period that paralleled almost exactly the time she was married to fellow singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell. What one circumstance had to do with the other is a question best left to biographers. 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