I CALL ON ROSANNE CASH
1. The Set Up Driving to Rosanne Cash’s home a few miles outside of Nashville I had to briefly take an interstate to a suburban road, turn off onto a country road (horses, cows, etc.), and finally onto a dirt road which winds along for a while until it ends at Rosanne’s door.
I CALL ON ROSANNE CASH
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Jeff Nesin
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1. The Set Up
Driving to Rosanne Cash’s home a few miles outside of Nashville I had to briefly take an interstate to a suburban road, turn off onto a country road (horses, cows, etc.), and finally onto a dirt road which winds along for a while until it ends at Rosanne’s door. Somewhere on the country road “Blue Moon With Heartache,” just then descending from the top of the country charts and my personal favorite from her second album, came on the car radio. I feared I was being set up.
It got worse. Writers are often told, usually by publicists, that the artists they have written about have read and “liked” or even “loved” the piece. This you take with as many grains of salt as you have handy. In this case I was advised that Rosanne was weary from trying to finish her new LP Somewhere In The Stars and care for her brand new daughter at the same time but, she’d be glad to see me because she remembered what I’d written about Seven Year Ache. Pass the salt.