Rosanne Cash and John Wesley Harding: “Fact Versus Truth: Memoir and Song: A Conversation and Performance”

May 6, 2009. 4pm. The Mansion.

Fairleigh Dickinson University. Madison, NJ. 

Ms. Cash will read from her memoir, and then discuss the topic and play some songs with John Wesley Harding.

Rosanne Cash is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter. Her fourteen record albums, released over the last twenty five years, have charted eleven number-one singles. She has earned numerous accolades for songwriting and performance.

Cash recorded her first US album, Right Or Wrong, in 1979. In the following 10 years, Cash released Seven Year Ache, which yielded both country and crossover hits, Rhythm and Romance, a widely-acclaimed fusion of country and pop and King's Record Shop, which generated four number one singles. She was named Billboard's Top Singles Artist in 1988.

The early 1990s saw the release of the critically-acclaimed, highly personal albums Interiors and The Wheel. 10 Song Demo, a stark, minimally-produced "home" recording, was released in 1996. After a hiatus following the birth of her son Jake, a new album, Rules of Travel, was released in March 2003.

Her most recent album, Black Cadillac, was released in January 2006, and was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.

Her first book, "Bodies of Water" (Hyperion, 1995), received widespread critical acclaim, as did her children's book, "Penelope Jane: A Fairy's Tale" (HarperCollins, 2000). Her essays and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Oxford-American, New York Magazine, and various other periodicals and collections.

Rosanne Cash lives in New York City with her husband, John Leventhal, and her children. She is currently working on a book of non-fiction, to be published by Viking in 2009.