{"id":792744,"date":"2019-02-05T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=790146"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:43:44","slug":"rosanne-cash-talks-channeling-feminist-rage-on-she-remembers-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rosanne-cash-talks-channeling-feminist-rage-on-she-remembers-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosanne Cash Talks Channeling Feminist Rage on \u2018She Remembers Everything\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rosanne Cash<\/a> was stuck as she tried to write the follow-up to 2013\u2019s The River & the Thread.<\/em> That album \u2014 which found her writing from the perspective of figures in her legendary family tree \u2014 was a huge success, winning a Grammy. Cash intended to write in the same vein for the follow-up. But then \u201cthis pressure cooker started building in America that didn\u2019t exactly take women into consideration,\u201d says Cash. \u201cI grew up in the Sixties and Seventies. I believed in progress and that things would be come more equal, that women would get equal pay and all the prejudice and subjection would fall away. And then I would feel crushed and that this horrible regressive thing was happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

That fear defines Cash\u2019s latest album She Remembers Everything,\u00a0<\/em>released late last year. Rolling Stone\u2019s\u00a0four-star review<\/a>\u00a0called it \u201ca master class in channeling life into song.\u201d Coming from a personal place, Cash tackles \u201crage, beauty \u2026 and madness\u201d over dark, meditative melodies. In a video about the making of the album, streaming below, Cash describes how she channeled that madness into song, explaining why she write the excellent \u201cUndiscovered Country\u201d as a testament to #MeToo movement and women who speak up. \u201cI think at the end of my life the regrets I would have would be about not living out loud,\u201d says Cash. \u201cNot saying what is true for me.\u201d Cash begins a large U.S. tour beginning February 17th in Northridge, California. In a Q&A that follows the video, Cash goes deeper on the album and why she\u2019s \u201coptimistic and dispirited\u201d about the future of the country.<\/p>\n

Can you tell me why you wanted to make a short film for She Remembers Everything<\/em>?
<\/strong>The visuals that accompany this album \u2014 based on art by Portia Munson \u2014 are really compelling and beautiful, as well as a little disturbing. I thought an expanded visual record was important. Also, I really like doing acoustic versions of produced tracks and it was great to break three of these songs down to the bones and perform them live.<\/p>\n

You mentioned the pressure of feeling like you had to write character songs again. Where did that pressure come from, and how did you decide to go in a different direction?
<\/strong>It made sense to quite a few people around me who have some stake in my work. Mostly men, honestly. The themed, concept records, third-person songs \u2014 all that had been successful for a three-record cycle. The arts centers have an easy way to promote a show. Journalists have a story to latch onto. I didn\u2019t care. I thought that even if it sold five records and the arts centers didn\u2019t want me, I had to do it. I had to write and record these really personal, gothic, female songs. It felt like a deathbed wish. That\u2019s dramatic and as far as I know, I\u2019m not dying, but it felt that urgent. I\u2019m so happy with what I did. It may not be as successful as The River & the Thread<\/em> but it\u2019s real and true to me and a document of this moment of my life. Reckoning with mortality, feminist rage and sorrow, trauma and love and a long-term relationship. I had to document it all.<\/p>\n

How did you \u201cplay with darkness,\u201d as you mentioned, on the new album?
<\/strong>I\u2019m secure enough to allow myself to go dark and find a way back to my kitchen and my husband and friends and kids and my life. But playing with darkness \u2014 teasing the lines and images out of it, laying a rhyme scheme over a nightmare \u2026? Major fun.<\/p>\n

Are you optimistic about the future of the country?
<\/strong>Both optimistic and dispirited. It\u2019s going to take a long time to undo the damage. Every day is a new insult: redefining what domestic violence means to favor the abuser, removing the ban from toxic pesticides, giving legitimacy to dictators and racists\u2026. I could go on and on. In the moment I feel shaken but in the long view, I think we will re-commit to our principles and our humanity. I meet a lot of people when I perform and I see how they respond to music and I see the community you can create in two hours. I believe we can take that and expand it. Art and music are essential because they open the heart and mind and once those are open you can\u2019t help but notice the suffering of others and you change your behavior. I just don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be around to see the damage undone, but I believe my kids will.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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