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CD review
ROSANNE CASH
Black Cadillac
by LES EVERETT
IN the couple of years leading up to the release of this album Rosanne Cash lost her father Johnny Cash, mother Vivian Liberto Cash Distin and step mother June Carter Cash.
While sadness is at the heart of 'Black Cadellic' Cash doesn't slide into sentimentality. This is a record that is as tough as it is touching. "One of us gets to go to heaven/ one has to stay here in hell" she sings in the title track.
The reference to heaven is interesting because Cash takes a couple well-aimed shots at religion further into the album. On 'Like Fugitives' she sings: "It's a strange new world we live in/ where the church leads you to hell" while the jazzy 'World Without Sound' contains the cheeky line: "I wish I was a Christian and knew what to believe".
On a collection that's generally pretty rocky the piano ballads 'I Was Watching You' and 'The World Unseen' - a couple of the quieter offerings - also provide highlights.
The playing is consistently brilliant with Jose Hernandez's trumpet on the title track and Bill Bottrell's mando cello and bouzouki on 'God is in the Roses' pricking up my ears.
This is music of the highest order.
'Black Cadillac' by Rosanne Cash is available from Dirt Cheap CDs, Carillon City, Murray Street Level, Perth 9322 5122 and Harbour Town, West Perth 9322 7666.
17 February 2007
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