Composed

A Memoir

A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her upbringing in Southern California as the child of country legend Johnny Cash, and of her relationships with her mother and her famous stepmother, June Carter Cash. In her account of her development as an artist she shares memories of a hilarious stint as a twenty-year-old working for Columbia Records in London, recording her own first album on a German label, working her way to success, her marriage to Rodney Crowell, a union that made them Nashville's premier couple, her relationship with the country music establishment, taking a new direction in her music and leaving Nashville to move to New York. As well as motherhood, dealing with the deaths of her parents, in part through music, the process of songwriting, and the fulfillment she has found with her current husband and musical collaborator, John Leventhal.Cash has written an unconventional and compelling memoir that, in the tradition of M. F. K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me and Frank Conroy's Stop-Time, is a series of linked pieces that combine to form a luminous and brilliant whole.

Wonderful Book. Great Audiobook experience too.

Eloquent reading by the artist herself. True to a statement made in the book, “Time is not a river, but a landscape. It is the eye of the beholder that is moving.” She moves through the past and present non linearly to tell her story with the poetic acumen of a true American songwriter. Hearing her tell the story in her voice breathes another layer of life into the well written prose. More to come.

Roseanne Her voice and eloquent words...

.....is such a lovely thing in this world!
I have so much to say about this book..
I catch my self listening and when it gets a couple chapters from the final one,I start over,I just don't want it to end!
feels like home to me.
Thank you Ms.Rose.❤️❤️❤️

What a surprise

I identified and i am so glad she did this. It is very well done. This was inspired and done because of love. I know it was not easy and perhaps relived again. Rosanne is very special and because I am a year younger we share many views. I will keep and eye on her .

🔆loved it!!!

i fell in love w/ rosanne’s voice and songwriting talents when i heard her seven year ache. this book is really interesting. i was so happy that she narrated it. i highly recommend it to anyone who has enjoyed her music :)

Creating her own legacy

Rosanne Cash is, of course, the daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash. The great thing about this memoir is she never shies awat from that. She's extraordinarily candid about her conflicted feelings, about her worry she would be perceived as exploiting him. But she also is willing to share some tender moments and memories of her father and admit when it was beneficial for her to be who she is (how he bankrolled her spending a few months in England; how he helped her secure her first American record deal). Her telling of her story is not entirely chronological as much as it explores certain themes, but she doesn't jump around so much that you get lost. Her telling of her recording process is just technical enough without losing the casual reader/listener. She freely admits which songs and records of hers she doesn't like to listen to. Her retelling of the eulogies for her parents is very emotional, and make the book worth a listen/read by themselves.