Daughter of the late Johnny Cash, she is one of the most compelling figures in popular music, with experience in country, rock, roots and pop influences, according to an IU Auditorium ?release.
She holds a lineage connected to the origin of American country music, with its cultural and historical links to the South.
The tour is designed to bring audiences on a “multimedia tour of the American South,” according to the ?release.
“We are thrilled to host Rosanne Cash at the auditorium,” said Doug Booher, director of the IU Auditorium, in the release. “Cash is a musical innovator, and this performance is the perfect opportunity to witness how she uses her great musical heritage to create an unforgettable concert experience.”
In her three-decade career, Cash released 15 albums of Grammy award-winning songs and nominations for 12 more in Americana Honors’ Album of the Year Award.
In “The River and the Thread” tour, Cash evokes the “bittersweet stories of people and places of the South” in an audio representation of its geographic, emotional and historic landscape, according to the ?release.
Cash, according to her website, has charted 21 Top-40 country singles, including 11 that were No. 1.
She wrote all of the new songs, from the album also titled “The River and the Thread,” with her longtime collaborator and husband John Leventhal. He served as producer, arranger and guitarist on the album.
“When we started forming the idea for this record,” Cash said on her website, “It felt like it was going to be the third part of a trilogy — with ‘Black Cadillac’ mapping out a territory of mourning and loss and then ‘The List,’ celebrating my family’s musical legacy. I feel this record ties past and present together through all those people and places in the South I knew and thought I had left ?behind.”
According to her website, Cash’s initial push to create the album was when Arkansas State University contacted her about their interest in purchasing her father’s childhood home in Dyess, Ark.
It was through this house that Cash was able to visit the South and, as a result, capture the influence of the album. It is these feelings which are represented in her physical album and her tour.
“I went back to where I was born, and these songs started arriving in me,” Cash said in the release. “All these things happened that made me feel a deeper connection to the South than I ever had. We started finding these great stories and the melodies that went with those experiences.”
Tickets to Cash’s performance can be bought at the IU Auditorium box office.
Audrey Perkins
