R CASH: And then when I was old enough to discover the songs on the radio for myself, then it was the Beatles. PATSY CLINE: (Singing) Well I guess that I was just your puppet you held on a string. R CASH: But then when my dad was on the road, what my mother played was also incredibly influential. SISTER ROSETTA THARPE: (Singing) Up above my head. It was in the house all the time - and not just what my father was playing - you know, Jimmie Rodgers and Woody Guthrie and, you know, Hank Williams and all of the older country stars and Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the gospel and blues. JOHNNY CASH: (Singing) I wasted my time when I would try, try, try 'cause when the lights have lost their glow, you'll cry, cry, cry. Was it something that was just everywhere? I mean, I know that your dad had his first single put out just a couple months after you were born. ZOMORODI: So, Rosanne, I have to imagine that as the daughter of Johnny Cash, there was probably a good amount of music in your life as a child. Rosanne Cash, hello, and thank you so much for being here. R CASH: (Singing) A stone is not a mountain, but a river runs through me. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, 'A FEATHER'S NOT A BIRD') and we're both recording and ready to go. ZOMORODI: On this episode, we explore the links between memory and music with singer, songwriter and musician Rosanne Cash, who is incredibly cool and funny and punctual.

And I don't know what I want until I write about it. R CASH: I often don't know what I feel or think. It also, she says, helped her accept the scrutiny that came with being the legendary Johnny Cash's daughter and, more recently, confront America's painful past, including her family's own role in that history. ZOMORODI: That creative source has led her to record 15 albums over the past four decades and win four Grammy Awards. And when you touch that, you're touching something of the divine. ROSANNE CASH: There's a mystery and a magic at the center of this process that's really undefinable and unexplainable. And she says it's the force behind her songwriting.

Musician Rosanne Cash calls this the rhythm and rhyme of memory. I'm a Manoush Zomorodi.Īnd if you've ever heard a song and instantly been transported back in time, you know the power of music to punctuate an event in your life or distill a moment in history.

I love the thrill lyrics and chords