Kurt Andersen and singer Rosanne Cash talk about working in the shadow of a famous and talented parent.
Rosanne Cash is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and author. Over the last twenty years she’s released eleven albums which have earned her several #1 hits. Her newest record Black Cadillac, comes out in January of 2006. She wrote the twelve-song musical memoir over the roughly two years in which she lost her father Johnny Cash, her stepmother June Carter Cash, and her mother Vivian Liberto Cash Distin. She’s also an accomplished writer, her essays and fiction have appeared in the New York Times and Rolling Stone and she has published a children’s book and book of short stories.
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