Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
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Artist: Rosanne CashBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Black Cadillac
- Radio Operator
- I Was Watching You
- Burn Down This Town
- God Is In The Roses
- House On The Lake
- The World Unseen
- Like Fugitives
- Dreams Are Not My Home
- Like A Wave
- World Without Sound
- Good Intent
- 0:71
Free Music Notes for Black Cadillac
Free Music Review: Rosanne Cash's Memory-Laden Masterpiece!
Hit: 5 Stars
Loss can cripple you. Loss can empower you. Loss can inspire you.
Anger can have the same effect, all in equal doses. So can insight. Over two particularly tough years, Rosanne Cash reached deep into each of these states of mind - among others - only to emerge with the memory-laden BLACK CADILLAC, a darkly heartfelt ode to life, love and lineage that could well be her musical masterpiece. Calling upon her roots - both inherited and acquired - Cash nimbly dances between the chords of rock, country, bluegrass and rockabilly, tossing in some blues and jazz for good measure. The result? Cash's most rocking album to date, as well as her most country-flavored one in almost twenty years. The fact that the two styles meld so well together is one of the disc's main marvel's. Her voice, long one of the best in pop music history, is freer and fresher than ever, wrapping around each word with just the right emotional nuances and punch. Add to this the brilliant production jobs by Bill Bottrell and John Leventhal (You would think two producers, working on alternating tracks, would be a mess, but the disc's sequencing and flow is seamless!), and you could very well have 2006's Album of the Year. Fittingly, the disc opens with her dad's voice, urging his first-born to "Say...C'mon." From there, we segue into the darkly atmospheric title track. Anchored by an almost ominous bassline and dreamy keyboards, Cash touches upon a topic that surfaces often throughout the album, that of things coming full circle. As a child, she often had to witness her father driving away in the black cadillacs he was so fond of...now, upon his death, she saw him drive away one last time in that ebony-hued automobile, and the feeling was more gut-wrenching than ever ("Now one of us gets to go to heaven/One has to stay here in hell"). Add, as another reviewer said, the "Ring of Fire"esque horns at the end and you have the perfect album opener. "Radio Operator" has a glorious rockabilly - meets - back porch hoedown vibe to it. Touching upon her dad's time as a radio operator during the war, Cash makes it clear that there are messages that still need answers and, though they may not be given verbally, the belief that those questions can always be asked and will be (at least internally) answered, is something that spurs her on, comforting her along the way. To quote an old Carly Simon song, "There's always someone haunting someone", or, in Cash's case, watching. "I Was Watching You", a gorgeously understated ballad, has Cash up in heaven, watching as her parents wed, then as a child witnessing her dad drive away, first for gigs then, after her parent's divorce, for good. This piano-driven beauty ends with her dad now in heaven, perpetually watching over her, making one thing clear....that "long before" AND "after life"..."there is love." "Burn Down This Town" has an edgy Southern gospel meets Southern chain-gang groove to it, something that probably would have put a big, old smile on the Man In Black's face. Known for his propensity for torching things, Cash hints that we all may have that same streak as her dad inisde of us...who wouldn't like to torch that one memory from childhood, that one day at work, that one particular relationship..."just burn it all." Cash delivers the song in a stirring, almost icy, vocal that gets under your skin and stays there. "God Is In The Roses" is another one of BLACK CADILLAC's premiere ballads...with it's delicate vocal and simple bluegrass arrangement, Cash reminds us that things like faith and love continually surround us, in both the good and the bad: "God is in the roses/The petals and the thorns/Storms out on the oceans/The souls who will be born." A true gem! "House On The Lake" has a swampy, swaying bayou feel to it, as Cash comments on the ghosts that still occupy - and pull her to - her dad and stepmother's lakeside home in Tennessee ("I hear his voice close in my ear/I see her smile and wave"). Though the rooms are empty and the house up for sale, Cash tenderly, but firmly, informs us that the love and memories made here can never be sold. Considering the fact that I've always wanted Rose to rock out more, I'm kind of shocked to discover that my favorite track on BLACK CADILLAC is the jazzy, albeit lovely, ballad "The World Unseen"; there's something elegantly regal to this beautiful piece that quickly ranks it among her all-time Top Ten best. With it's shuffling rhythm section and mesmerizing piano fills, the song flows out of the speakers like gentle wisps of fragrant hickory smoke. Add Cash's velvety vocal and touching lyrics ("So I will look for you/Between the grooves of songs we sing/Westward leading, still proceeding/To the world unseen") and you have an instant classic. Following "The World Unseen" is another one of BC's high points, the biting "Like Fugitives." Cash has expressed anger before, but it's never been so overt: anger over her mother's death, anger about the lawyers and organized religions of the world who pontificate over the well-being of the earth, then rape, plunder and abuse it behind our backs, and anger towards those silly, simple souls who want to save her - yet at the same time condemn her! - for expressing her own thoughts, feelings and points of view (on her own website, no less!). With a pulsating arrangement that thumps like a heartbeat or a throbbing vein alongside your temple, Cash's barely contained vocal hits you in the gut like an iron fist in a velvet glove. Brilliant! Up next we have the upbeat power pop of "Dreams Are Not My Home" and the other-worldly trance that is "Like A Wave." "World Without Sound" is BLACK CADILLAC's most overtly different cut, what with it's New Orleans Mardi-Gras vibe, but it fits right in. Things wrap up with "The Good Intent" (the ship the Cash family came over to America on from Scotland in the 1600's), a quiet, earthy ballad that nicely bookends the disc. In closing, I just want to reiterate a few things: A) BLACK CADILLAC could very well be Rosanne Cash's career masterpiece (and with the body of work she's done over the past 25+ years, that's saying a lot!), B) BLACK CADILLAC is a true front-runner for 2006's Album of the Year and C) BLACK CADILLAC is something you need to experience and identify with for yourself...other people's feelings and thoughts just can't do it justice. So do yourself a favor and climb into BLACK CADILLAC....I promise you, it's a ride like no other! (As with all my reviews, I'm giving the disc an extra half a star for including the lyrics).
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flexfield5Her father called her "The Brain," and while it's always been apparent why, Rosanne Cash will likely astonish listeners with the new level of writing and depth of feeling she brings to Black Cadillac, her aural memoir of loss, ancestry, and negotiating ongoing relationships with the dead. Cash--who lost her father, Johnny; her stepmother, June Carter Cash; and her mother, Vivian Cash Distin, within a span of two years--makes it clear throughout this rootsy exploration of her past that while grief is unavoidable, faith and salvation eventually become its companion. And as the rockabilly "Radio Operator" points out ("I am calling like a friend / from my future / from your memory / and it never has to end"), the departed seldom really leave the living. Cash's first album since 2003's Rules of Travel, Black Cadillac is darker than its predecessor, but with melodies often more complex and lyrics more stunningly poetic than anything its creator has conjured before, the album is more transforming than depressing, and exquisitely beautiful. In the achingly mournful, yet redemptive "I Was Watching You," she writes of waiting in heaven as her parents meet and wed, and of eventually joining them on earth, only to realize her parents now view life's events from her first vantage point. Other songs ("House on the Lake," "Burn Down This Town") frame more tangible real-life events, i.e., the Cash compound in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and the Man in Black's firebug tendencies. Producers John Leventhal and Bill Bottrell dot the lean, atmospheric, and genre-blending production with instrumental hallmarks that recall both the Appalachian sound of the Carter Family and the work of J.R. Cash (the horns in the title cut pay homage to those in "Ring of Fire"). But while elegiac, Black Cadillac never turns maudlin or morphs into a tribute record to a fallen icon (the lawyers get skewered in one particularly clear-eyed passage). Instead, this extraordinary, intensely moving work is made up of dreamy and deeply personal pages from a psychic scrapbook, delivered on the cashmere-and-corduroy voice of one of music's purest and most visionary artists. --Alanna Nash Recommended Rosanne Cash
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