Rosanne Cash

Person / b. 1955 / United States

country folk

Biography

Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Cash.

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Elsewhere

Analysed songs (10)

500 Miles

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Rosanne Cash's version of this traditional folk song turns a simple hitchhiker's lament into a meditation on permanent distance…

distance and displacement homesickness regret

Girl from the North Country

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Rosanne Cash's reading of this Dylan standard is a hushed, spare rendition that treats the song as a message passed to a…

lost love distance and separation memory

I Still Miss Someone

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Rosanne Cash's cover of her father's classic reframes a spare heartbreak ballad through the lens of family inheritance -- a…

romantic loss longing and memory inherited songs and legacy

I'm Movin' On

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This is Rosanne Cash's cover of the Hank Snow train-song classic, recorded for her 2009 album of covers chosen by her father,…

departure and finality betrayal and pride the railroad as American vernacular metaphor

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

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This is a traditional 19th-century Christmas hymn, written by Edmund Sears in 1849, performed here by a young Rosanne Cash on a…

longing for peace weariness and labor spiritual hope

Land of Dreams

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A gentle invitation song that frames creativity and connection as a shared, almost tangible place rather than an abstract goal.…

creative inheritance invitation and encouragement intimacy

Long Black Veil

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A ghost narrates his own wrongful execution, explaining that he chose death over revealing the affair that would have cleared…

forbidden love silence and secrecy guilt and sacrifice

Not Many Miles to Go

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A meditation on a long marriage viewed from its later stretch, where gratitude, hard history, and mortality sit side by side.…

long-term partnership aging and mortality gratitude after hardship

Sea of Heartbreak

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A classic torch song built on a single sustained nautical metaphor for heartbreak, recorded by Rosanne Cash as part of an album…

romantic abandonment isolation longing for rescue

September When It Comes

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A meditation on mortality and inherited fate, written in the voice of someone reckoning with the end of life while looking back…

mortality inheritance/family legacy acceptance