Rosanne Cash - Seven Year Ache • CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

You might get the mistaken idea that Rosanne Cash is male-defined. Aside from the obvious reasons–father Johnny made country music her birthright, husband-producer Rodney Crowell lets her borrow his backup band–there's the music itself. On her fine, hard-edged second album, Seven Year Ache, Cash does a cunning variation on a trick that female rock & rollers have been pulling for a long time (but few as obsessively or wittily). She takes tunes by men and about men and switches the gender, crooning–in her unmannered, wafting tenor–all those plots about leaving lovers and getting the urge to light out for the territory.

Cash renders these time-tired male themes
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