ROSANNE CASH NOMINATED FOR THREE AMERICANA HONORS &
AWARDS – ALBUM OF THE YEAR (THE RIVER & THE THREAD),
ARTIST OF THE YEAR AND SONG OF THE YEAR (“A FEATHER’S
NOT A BIRD”)
THE GRAMMY®-WINNING ARTIST IS ALSO NOMINATED FOR
NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME
CASH MAKES HER RETURN TO MEMPHIS WITH FREE JUNE 14
CONCERT AT HISTORIC LEVITT SHELL
TOUR INCLUDES AUGUST 9 HEADLINE SHOW AT
AMERICANAFEST NYC, PART OF LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS
FREE SUMMER FESTIVAL, OCTOBER 2 CONCERT AT UCLA’S
ROYCE HALL AND OCTOBER 5 PERFORMANCE AT SAN
FRANCISCO’S HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL
CASH GUESTS ON “PARK BENCH,” THE NEW AOL ORIGINALS WEB
SERIES WITH STEVE BUSCEMI, NPR’S “MOUNTAIN STAGE,”
WBEZ’S “SOUND OPINIONS” AND “WTF WITH MARC MARON”
PODCAST
May 13, 2014 - New York, NY – Rosanne
Cash has received a trio of Americana Honors
& Awards 2014 nominations: Album of the
Year (for The River & The Thread), Artist of
the Year and Song of the Year (for “A
Feather’s Not A Bird”). The nominations
were announced yesterday by the Americana
Music Association. Presented by Nissan, the
Americana Honors & Awards will be held at historic Ryman Auditorium in
Nashville, TN on September 17, 2014 (as part of the Americana Music Festival September 17-21, 2014 at venues throughout Music City). Cash was the
recipient of the Album of the Year award at the 2010 Americana Honors &
Awards for 2009’s The List. Rosanne was also recently nominated for the
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Her new album, The River & The Thread (Blue Note Records), debuted in
January 2014 at No. 11 on The Billboard 200 (becoming Cash’s highestcharting album yet) and at No. 1 on the Folk Albums chart. Cash wrote the
album’s 11 original songs with John Leventhal, who also served as producer,
arranger and guitarist. The River & The Thread topped the Americana radio
chart for 11 weeks and was hailed as “the work of a lifetime” by Newsweek. “It’s
an album we’ll be looking at in December when it’s time to single out the most
powerful works of 2014,” said the Los Angeles Times and The Oxford American
pronounced it “the best music of her career.” TIME observed, “[The River & The
Thread] paints a beautiful and complex portrait of the American South, seen
through the eyes of a prodigal daughter come home.”
Cash was born in Memphis, TN, raised in Southern California and is a longtime
New York City resident. On June 14, she’ll return to Memphis for a special free
concert celebrating The River & The Thread (and the connection many of the
songs have to the city) at the historic Levitt Shell. The venue – formerly known
as the Overton Park Shell – was the site of Elvis Presley’s first professional
public performance in 1954. It was also where Rosanne’s father, Johnny Cash,
played his first big Memphis show, coinciding with the release of his Sun
Records debut in 1955. The Mike Curb Institute for Music at Rhodes College is
co-presenting her concert and will host a series of educational events in
conjunction with Rosanne’s visit.
Rosanne Cash with Steve Buscemi on new AOL web series, “Park Bench”
Photo Courtesy of Olive Productions and RadicalMedia
She will be one of the first guests on the AOL Originals web series “Park
Bench” parkbenchtheshow.com <http://parkbenchtheshow.com/>, a new kind of
"talking show" straight from the mind of born and bred New Yorker and host,
Steve Buscemi. Featuring a mix of surprise celebrity appearances and
spontaneous interviews with people on the street, “Park Bench” will convey
Steve’s unique relationship with New York and its array of one-of-a-kind
characters. It debuts with four episodes this Thursday, May 15, and can be seen
HERE. Cash will also appear the podcast “WTF With Marc Maron” and WBEZ’s
“Sound Opinions.” View her recent appearance on PBS’ “Tavis Smiley” HERE.
Cash will be touring the U.S. and Europe this summer and has also added a
series of fall dates. She will give a special one-hour performance at Chuck
Mathena Center in Princeton, WV on July 20, which will air on a future episode
of NPR’s “Mountain Stage.” The episode will also feature Chuck Mead & His
Grassy Knoll Boys, Willie Watson and Hurray for the Riff Raff. For additional
information, visit http://www.mountainstage.org/mtnstagelive.aspx.
On August 9, she will headline a show at Americanafest NYC – presented as
part of Lincoln Center Out of Doors in partnership with the Americana Music
Association. The concert, which will be held at Damrosch Park Bandshell, will
also feature The Lone Bellow and Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale. Fall dates
include a performance at the Blues N Roots N BBQ festival in Columbia, MO on
September 27, where Avett Brothers, John Prine and Jason Isbell are also
performing, a Los Angeles show at UCLA’s Royce Hall on October 2 and a
return to San Francisco for the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival on October 5.
See below for itinerary or visit http://rosannecash.com/tour/.
“Whether on page or stage, Cash is a superb storyteller,” said the San
Francisco Chronicle in a review of her recent sold-out, four-night stand at the SF
JAZZ Center, adding, “Leventhal's guitar work is as much a star of the show as
Cash is.” “The music is understated; the ideas are large…Played as a group —
the way people used to listen to albums — the [new] songs became a larger
cycle: not a narrative but a collection of characters and inquiries, pondering how
the past lingers.” said The New York Times’ Jon Pareles in a live review.
“Rosanne continues to courageously blow her audiences away with true class
and skill,” observed The Guardian, covering her recent London show while The
Telegraph noted, “Her songs tackle wide-ranging aspects of the South: Civil
War; Depression-era poverty; religion; the Mississippi river; and a specific view
of the rest of the world. The spirits of William Faulkner and Robert Johnson
hang heavy over them.”
Rosanne will be participating in tributes to Kris Kristofferson, who is being
recognized at the PEN New England Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Awards
in Boston on June 2, and Donovan, who is being inducted into the Songwriters
Hall of Fame on June 12 in New York City. She is also honored to present
Andrew Solomon, author of Far From The Tree, with the inaugural Felix Award
in Writing at the Extreme Kids & Crew soiree in Brooklyn on May 14. Extreme
Kids & Crew combats the stress and isolation faced by children with disabilities
and their families through play, arts and movement programming, partnerships
with cultural and therapeutic institutions, parent meet-ups and more.
Cash has recorded 15 albums, including 1981’s Seven Year Ache and 1987’s
King’s Record Shop – both certified Gold. She has charted 21 Top 40 country
singles, 11 of which climbed to No. 1. She has received 12 GRAMMY
nominations, winning in 1985. Cash has also published four books, including
her 2010 bestselling memoir, Composed. Her essays and fiction have appeared
in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, New York magazine and the Oxford
American, among others.
The River & The Thread is available now on:
iTunes
Amazon.com
www.rosannecash.com
ROSANNE CASH – NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
5/16 – Lewisburg, PA – Bucknell University +
6/14 – Memphis, TN – Levitt Shell * FREE EVENT
6/28 – Katonah, NY – Venetian Theater – Caramoor Festival for the Arts *
6/30 – North Truro, MA – Payomet Performing Arts Center**
7/1 – Edgarton, MA – Flatbread (MV) Gay Head Lighthouse benefit **
7/3 – Nantucket, MA – Dreamland Film & PAC Nantucket New School benefit **
7/5 – Portsmouth, NH – Prescott Park Arts Festival ** 7/6 – Orillia, ON, CAN – Mariposa Folk Festival *
7/19 – Woodstock, VA – Shenandoah Valley Music Festival **
7/20 – Princeton, WV – Chuck Mathena Center – NPR’s “Mountain Stage” **
8/9 – New York, NY – Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Damrosch Park/Americanafest NYC * FREE EVENT
8/19 – Kennett Square, PA – Longwood Gardens *
8/21 – Geneva, NY – The Smith Center for the Arts +
9/ 3 – Winona, MN – Page Theater at St. Mary’s University**
9/5 – St. Paul, MN – O’Shaughnessy Auditorium at College of St. Catherine *
9/6 – St. Joseph, MN – Escher Auditorium at College of St. Benedict *
9/12 – South Bend, IN – DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at Notre Dame *
9/13 – Urbana, IL – Krannert Center at University of Illinois *
9/25 – Bloomington, IN – Indiana University Auditorium *
9/26 – Indianapolis, IN @ Clowes Memorial Hall at Butler University *
9/27 – Columbia, MO – Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival * 10/2 – Los Angeles, CA – UCLA – Royce Hall *
10/5 – San Francisco, CA – Hardly Strictly Bluegrass *
10/18 – Poughkeepsie, NY – Bardavon Theater *
11/
6 – Princeton, NJ – McCarter Theater **
11/8 – Hutchinson, KS – Historic Fox Theatre *
11/13 – Cambridge, MA – Sanders Theatre *
11/20 – St. Louis, MO – Sheldon Hall **
11/21 – Stoughton, WI – Stoughton Opera House **
* Rosanne Cash and Band
** Duo performance – Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
+ Trio performance – Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal and Zev Katz
For more information, please contact:
Tour Press
Renee Pfefer, On Tour PR
Renee@ontourpr.com
914-806-2834
JR Rich
Blue Note Records
jr.rich@umusic.com