New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Missing Piece Group) Rosanne Cash has reached a career milestone with her new album,The River & The Thread (Blue Note Records). It debuts at No. 11, becoming her highest-charting album yet on The Billboard 200. The album bows at No. 1 on the Folk Albums chart, No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart and No. 5 on the Top
Internet Albums chart.
The River & The Thread shot to No. 1 on Amazon.com's Best Sellers in
Music chart and No. 3 on the iTunes Store this past Sunday after "CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood" aired its profile of Cash. In the segment, which can be viewed here, she takes CBS' Anthony
Mason on a road trip through the American South, visiting some of the places where she and her husband, producer/guitarist John Leventhal, found inspiration for the 11 original songs contained on The River & The Thread. Cash performed the album's opening song, "A Feather's Not A Bird," on "Late Show with
David Letterman" last week, marking her 12th "Letterman" performance. It can be seen here.
The series of TV appearances continues, with Cash guesting on "The Katie Couric Show" this Friday, January 24, and performing on "CBS Saturday" on February 8. Her "Yahoo! Ram Country" session will premiere later today and she will appear on the public radio show "Q With Jian Ghomeshi," which will air next week on 160 stations. Last week KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" aired highlights from Cash's recent "Apogee Session" performance (view here) and she appeared on the syndicated radio show "Acoustic Café." Cash's album is being played on over 100 AAA and Americana stations and has ascended to #2 on the Americana chart after just three weeks, which is fitting as her last release, 2009's The List, won Album of The Year at the Americana
Music Awards.
On Saturday, January 25, she will kick off a North American tour in Burlington, ON. Cash and Leventhal will perform a trio of shows as a duo, including evenings at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art (February 22) and Seattle's Moore Theatre (February 26). She will be backed by her full band on the remaining dates. See below for itinerary or visit https://rosannecash.com/tour/.
"[The River & The Thread] paints a beautiful and complex portrait of the American South, seen through the eyes of a prodigal daughter come home," said TIME while People declared, "Here it is—the best album of 2014 (so far)!" "Cash comes full circle as a storyteller and singer of exceptional grace and grit. It's among her finest work in a 35-year career, assured and at ease, and one of 2014's first great albums," observed The
Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times concurred in a four-star review, noting, "It's an album we'll be looking at in December when it's time to single out the most powerful works of 2014." USA Today also awarded The River & The Thread four stars, praising it as a "captivating and sometimes haunting album that's among the finest of her career." Associated Press noted, "the 11 songs blend Tennessee flattop twang with gospel, the blues, and even hints of jazz while building a bridge from Dust Bowl ballads to
Dusty Springfield pop."
Rosanne - who was recently profiled by The New York Times Magazine and the subject of a Paste Magazine cover story - has also won praise from Elton John, who said, "It is inconceivable that there will be a more beautiful album than this in 2014."
The River & The Thread features appearances by Cory Chisel, Rodney Crowell (who also co-wrote one song), Amy Helm, Kris Kristofferson,
Allison Moorer, John Prine, Derek Trucks, John Paul White (The Civil Wars),
Tony Joe White and Gabe Witcher (The Punch Brothers). It follows 2009's The List, which was nominated for two GRAMMY® Awards, won the Americana
Music Award for Album of the Year and was a critics' favorite.
Born in Memphis, raised in California and based in New York City, Cash has recorded 15 albums, including 1981's
Seven Year Ache and 1987's King's Record Shop - both certified Gold. Rosanne has charted 21 Top 40 country singles, 11 of which climbed to No. 1. She has received 12 GRAMMY nominations, winning in 1985. Cash has also published four books, including her 2010 bestselling memoir, Composed, which The
Chicago Tribune hailed as "one of the best accounts of an American life you will likely ever read." Her essays and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, New York magazine and the Oxford American, among others. She recently wrapped up a three-day residency at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
The River & The Thread is available now on:
iTunes
Amazon.com
www.rosannecash.com
ROSANNE CASH - NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
January
25 - Burlington, ON - Burlington Performing Arts Centre *
29 - St. Catharines, ON - Brock University *
30 - Brampton, ON - Rose Theatre *
31 - Kingston, ON - The Kingston Grand *
February
1 - Markham, ON - Flato Markham Theatre *
6 - Englewood, NJ - Bergen Performing Arts Center +
14 - Washington, DC - GWU Lisner Auditorium *
20 - Norfolk, CT -
Infinity Hall *
22 - New York, NY - The Metropolitan Museum of Art +
26 - Seattle, WA - The Moore Theatre +
March
7 - Fayetteville, AR - Walton Arts Center *
9 - Lafayette, LA - Acadiana Center for the Arts *
12 - Richmond, VA - Modlin Center for the Arts *
14 - Durham, NC - The Carolina Theatre *
21 - University, MS - Ford Theatre - Gertrude C. For Center for the Performing Arts *
22 - Meridian, MS - Riley Center - Mississippi
State University *
April
10 - 13 - San Francisco, CA - Robert N. Miner Auditorium - SF JAZZ Center *
*
Rosanne Cash and Band
+ Duo performance -
Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
