by Rosanne Cash
First published 2010
Rosanne Cash opens her life to readers in this intimate memoir spanning three decades of music and family. The daughter of country legend Johnny Cash, she grew up in Southern California navigating relationships with her mother and stepmother June Carter Cash. Cash traces her artistic journey from a comic early job at Columbia Records in London through recording her first album on a German label. She chronicles her rise in Nashville, her marriage to Rodney Crowell that made them the city's power couple, and her eventual break from country music's establishment. Moving to New York marked a new chapter in both her sound and personal life. Cash explores motherhood, grieving her parents' deaths, and finding creative partnership with her current husband John Leventhal. She structures the book as connected pieces rather than straight chronology, weaving together stories of songwriting, family legacy, and artistic growth. The result captures both the weight of carrying a famous name and the work of forging an independent creative path.
Genres: family, autobiography, non-fiction, biography-memoir, music
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family
Setting: Southern California, Nashville, New York
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
256 pages · Hardcover · Viking