Rosanne Cash - 10 Song Demo
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Artist: Rosanne CashEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1996-04-02
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Price Of Temptation
- If I Were A Man
- The Summer I Read Collette
- Western Wall
- Bells And Roses
- List Of Burdens
- Child Of Steel
- Just Don't Talk About It
- I Want To Know
- Take My Body
- Mid-Air
Free Music Notes for 10 Song Demo
Free Music Review: Try as I might, I can't love this album
Hit: 3 Stars
First things first, don't expect REAL "songwriting demos"...there's more than just Cash and her acoustic here. Perhaps a fairer way to name it would be "No overdubs allowed" as they do keep it fairly basic..only "I Want to Know" features any backing vocals, otherwise you get Rosanne and only Rosanne. Electric guitar is kept restrained, more for tremeloed "atmosphere" than actual licks. Synthesizers likewise are usually just gauzy padding rather than in-your-face tinkling.
HIGHLIGHTS:
"If I Were a Man" finds Rosanne insisting she would "give me everything I need/I'd be so glad to go this deep/if I were a man". Were the lyrics as consistently compelling as this all the way through, I'd be singing the praises of this CD as much as others here. "Bells and Roses" finds Cash straining to achieve true intimacy despite its treacherous difficulties. ("If you see who I really am/Will you still want to stay?...There's a danger in this love/And I wanna be that brave"). A brushed snare shuffle leads us into "List of Burdens" is a plea to her lover not to consider her life on the road a torture ("Don't put my love on your list of burdens/When I'm bringing it home to you"). "Just Don't Talk about it" is Rosanne crumbling after a breakup. ("Where is the church of my magic?/My neatly ordered plans?/What is the song I was singing before this began") "Take my Body" is an attack on the shallowness of American culture's view of women. ("See myself defiled on every page and every screen/Because I don't weigh 100 pounds/I'm not 20 anymore/Would I want to be?/Take my body, what you feel and what you see/Take my body, let it be fuel for all your fantasies..")
LOWS:
"The Summer I Read Collette" is trying too hard to be "deep".
BOTTOM LINE:
It's good but I think calling it great or one of the best of 1996 is going too far. There simply aren't really any songs here that became "mental Top 10s" for days. (You know, those songs that once heard you keep hearing in your head..you find yourself humming the melodies absent-mindedly) A lot of the disc seems content to waft gently, pretty and unassuming, in the background of life and that's not what I listen to music for. Cash devotees will probably want it, but if you're just dipping into Rosanne's catalogue, I would start with KING'S RECORD SHOP instead.
10 Song Demo Poster
Rosanne Cash's 10 Song Demo has a lot in common with Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball. Both projects find Nashville divas pushing the left side of the progressive-country envelope with austere, intensely personal readings of superb songs about troubled relationships and spiritual crises. In each case, the singer has an equal partner in a producer who creates a brooding atmosphere with synth washes and sustaining guitar--in Harris's case it was U2's Daniel Lanois; in Cash's case, it's her husband, John Leventhal. The title is misleading on two counts: it actually contains 11 songs, and they really aren't demos. Although nearly every number begins with just Cash's voice and acoustic guitar or piano, they are gradually filled in with tasteful electric guitar, bass, and keys, which are too exquisite to be called unfinished demos. --Geoffrey HimesRosanne Cash Photos
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