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Black Cadillac |  | Artist: Rosanne Cash
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 29832
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 009463487380
EAN: 0009463487380
ASIN: B000CETWOY
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Black Cadillac | | • | Radio Operator | | • | I Was Watching You | | • | Burn Down This Town | | • | God Is In The Roses | | • | House On The Lake | | • | The World Unseen | | • | Like Fugitives | | • | Dreams Are Not My Home | | • | Like A Wave | | • | World Without Sound | | • | Good Intent | | • | 0:71 |
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flexfield5
Amazon.com
Her father called her "The Brain," and while it's always been apparent why, Rosanne Cash will likely astonish listeners with the new level of writing and depth of feeling she brings to Black Cadillac, her aural memoir of loss, ancestry, and negotiating ongoing relationships with the dead. Cash--who lost her father, Johnny; her stepmother, June Carter Cash; and her mother, Vivian Cash Distin, within a span of two years--makes it clear throughout this rootsy exploration of her past that while grief is unavoidable, faith and salvation eventually become its companion. And as the rockabilly "Radio Operator" points out ("I am calling like a friend / from my future / from your memory / and it never has to end"), the departed seldom really leave the living. Cash's first album since 2003's Rules of Travel, Black Cadillac is darker than its predecessor, but with melodies often more complex and lyrics more stunningly poetic than anything its creator has conjured before, the album is more transforming than depressing, and exquisitely beautiful. In the achingly mournful, yet redemptive "I Was Watching You," she writes of waiting in heaven as her parents meet and wed, and of eventually joining them on earth, only to realize her parents now view life's events from her first vantage point. Other songs ("House on the Lake," "Burn Down This Town") frame more tangible real-life events, i.e., the Cash compound in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and the Man in Black's firebug tendencies. Producers John Leventhal and Bill Bottrell dot the lean, atmospheric, and genre-blending production with instrumental hallmarks that recall both the Appalachian sound of the Carter Family and the work of J.R. Cash (the horns in the title cut pay homage to those in "Ring of Fire"). But while elegiac, Black Cadillac never turns maudlin or morphs into a tribute record to a fallen icon (the lawyers get skewered in one particularly clear-eyed passage). Instead, this extraordinary, intensely moving work is made up of dreamy and deeply personal pages from a psychic scrapbook, delivered on the cashmere-and-corduroy voice of one of music's purest and most visionary artists. --Alanna Nash Recommended Rosanne Cash
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 88
 Superb album April 29, 2010
David B. Spalding (Chromejob-dot-com)
I loved this album from the first spin, but I'm disappointed the MP3 download version doesn't come with the booklet in PDF (or other) form. The photos are marvelous, and a touching counterpoint to the songs.
My suggestion: get the CD version.
 A wonderfully personal statement February 15, 2010
J. Carroll (Island Heights,NJ)
With a somber bass line leading the way and Roseanne Cash's emotionally resonant voice filled with pain and longing following shortly after, the title track opens this wistful and poignant meditation on love and loss with an appropriate emotional impact. Each song has its roots in emotion, ensnaring the listener with compassion on cuts like "I was Watching You" and "God is in the Roses," nostalgia ("House on the Lake") and even anger. ("Burn Down This Town") There's not a wasted track here as Cash moves thoughtfully from one idea to the next; each song supported admirably by a very solid musical setting, but the focus always remains her incredible vocals. This is a wonderful example of an artist making a very personal statement accessibly to all who'll listen.
Excellent August 2, 2008
B. Bates (Santa Fe, NM USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of my all time favorite CDs. Music to express the loss of her father, just great music throughout.
The Critics Are Right June 26, 2008
Bradley Jacobson
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this album because on a lark I started looking up Rosanne Cash on allmusic.com and the critics loved this album so Black Cadillac intriqued me, not only cuz a critic called it her crowned acheivement but because it was written and recorded during a 22 month period where first her father Johnny Cash died, then her step mother June and then in May of that year her own mother.
Despite the fact that she was eventually left an orphan at 50, and her family isn't your typical Mom & Pop situation, the album delves into pain, remorse, anger and regression; all universal themes and not a single one done with a hint of self pity - you won't find any "I wish we had more time together" type of songs; in fact Rosanne questions and ponders and leaves everything so matter of factly, it's almost ingenius.
Opening the set with a taped vocal of Johnny calling for "C'mon Rosanne" before breaking into the title track, "It was a black cadillac that took you away..." the song doesn't hide any emotion as she calmly and clearly realizes her father is walking in Heaven and this place is lonely, but it was always was. The song jumps in with guitars and drums and ever so slightly background of the melody to "Ring Of Fire" - a very clever little add I think.
In other songs, there are questions and conversions of religion on "God Is In The Roses" (and in the thorns), "World Without Sound" (I wish I was a Christian/ but I can't believe/ cause no one in the Bible craves my company) and in the excellant "Like Fugitives" with a chorus that touches on many feelings I have, and could be argued (at least by me) has a sentiment that could defend gay rights - "it's a strange new world where the church leads us to Hell/ and the lawyers get the money for the lives they buy and sell/ and the only dreams we believe in are up on the screen/ so we live lives as fugitives/ when we were meant to live as queens" - okay, I'm stretching the gay thing but it makes me laugh to think she could be putting that in there... as for the music, like most of Rosanne Cash's stuff this isn't easily classible, part Mary Chapin-Carpenter (though time line would show Mary would've been influenced by Rosanne herself), part pop/ part blues.
As I have discovered, Rosanne has always made very intriguing albums both lyrically and musically and I have to agree this has got to be one of her best - her second according to the masses is Interiors, which I also recently purchased and while Black Cadillac deals with loss and the realization that one has to and will live through it, Interiors is a ten song opus into the deterioration of a marriage, so you can bet that will be reviewed sometime soon.
As for this album, the songs are great including "Dreams Are Not My Home" and "Radio Operator" both very upbeat little odes - in fact the sequencing is great as there are not all ballads, she can convey all her emotions in any format and does it quite well. As a very striking tribute the 13th track titled "0:71" is actually 71 seconds of silence - Johnny Cash died at the age of 71.
Excellent CD February 9, 2008
MM (CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great CD. I like both the music and the lyrics all the way through. I'd recommend it to anybody. It's a truly heartfelt piece of work.
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