{"id":1102,"date":"2010-08-17T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2010-08-17T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T22:00:10","slug":"rosanne-cash-composed-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/rosanne-cash-composed-a-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"ROSANNE CASH + Composed: A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Composed:<\/a>BOOK REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n

R<\/strong>OSANNE CASH<\/strong><\/p>\n

Composed: A Memoir<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Viking Press]<\/p>\n

First and foremost, Rosanne Cash wanted to write. It wasn\u2019t a call to the stage that inspired the eldest daughter of Johnny Cash to make her first record in the late 1970s at age 23. Performing was simply a medium for songwriting, a craft that fascinated Cash and that she pursued with a fierce intellectualism. Her third book and first memoir, Composed<\/em> is long on such procedural details about Cash\u2019s evolution as an artist and short on gossip. Pages are devoted to the nuts and bolts of her professional partnership with singer-songwriter and producer Rodney Crowell\u2014but little is said of their romance, which produced three children and ended with an amicable divorce in 1991. It\u2019s as if, having grown up in the spotlight, Cash has little patience for the notion that we\u2019re entitled to any details about her personal life. But that doesn\u2019t mean Composed<\/em> isn\u2019t intimate. Cash writes candidly about her complicated relationship with her father, and eloquently about personal tragedies such as miscarriage, brain surgery and losing her parents. Her evocative prose elevates the book far beyond the standard celebrity autobiography. \u201cWith time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad and finally becomes poignant,\u201d she writes. \u201cOr maybe poignancy isn\u2019t the conclusion to grief. Maybe there is something beyond poignant that I haven\u2019t experienced yet.\u201d Long ago, Rosanne Cash established herself as a singer-songwriter in her own right. With Composed<\/em>, she reveals another layer of her artistry, one that takes the next step in establishing her singular legacy. \u2014KD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BOOK REVIEW ROSANNE CASH Composed: A Memoir [Viking Press] First and foremost, Rosanne Cash wanted to write. It wasn\u2019t a call to the stage that inspired the eldest daughter of Johnny Cash to make her first record in the late 1970s at age 23. Performing was simply a medium for songwriting, a craft that fascinated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,227,676,623,675,677],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}