The following is from the South Orange Performing Arts Center
Grammy Award-winning Americana singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash will play a concert at the South Orange Performing Arts Center on February 3rd at 8 p.m. featuring music from her multiple Grammy Award-winning album The River & the Thread. John Leventhal, Cash’s co-writer, producer and husband will play alongside her.
Tickets are $55-70 and can be purchased online at SOPACnow.org, or by calling the box office at (973) 313-2787.
Rosanne Cash’s debut album, Right or Wrong, came out in 1979. Since then, she released several classic albums such as Seven Year Itch, The Wheel, Black Cadillac and the emotionally charged Interiors. Rosanne Cash won three Grammy awards in 2015 – Best Americana Album for The River & the Thread and for “A Feather’s Not A Bird,” Best American Roots Song and Best American Roots Performance.
The River & the Thread includes eleven original songs written by Rosanne Cash and her longtime collaborator—and husband—John Leventhal, who also served as producer, arranger, and guitarist. The recording evokes the American South’s rich landscape—physical, musical, and emotional—and examines the indelible impressions it’s made on our collective culture and on Rosanne Cash, who was born in Memphis, Tennessee. The songs portray a multi-generational cast of characters—from a Civil War soldier off to fight in Virginia, to a New Deal-era farmer in Arkansas, to a present-day couple in Alabama.
While Cash and Leventhal were inspired by the many musical styles associated with the South—Delta Blues, Gospel, Appalachian Folk, Country, Rock, and others—the resulting collection of songs is Contemporary. Cash, who has just been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, has recorded 15 albums and has charted 21 Top Forty Country singles, eleven of which reached number one. A Chicago Tribune reviewer describes Composed, her 2010 memoir, as “one of the best accounts of an American life you will likely ever read.”
SOPAC programs are made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. The South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) is a 501(c)(3)charitable organization. SOPAC received funding through a grant from the NJ Department of State, Division of Travel and Tourism, visitnj.org.
