Originally Posted by milomom

Rosanne Cash - The List

I bought this CD because Bruce sings on one track. It's been a long time since I'd listened to Rosanne Cash, although I always loved her voice. I had no idea about how this CD came to be. She wrote this for the CD booklet:

"The day after I graduated from high school in Ventura, California, I went on the road with my dad. We were riding on the tour bus one day in that summer of 1973, and we started talking about songs. My dad mentioned a song, and I said 'I don't know that one.' He mentioned another, and then another. I didn't know any of them. He became alarmed that I was so steeped in the rock and pop music of my time that I did not understand the vital importance of the songs that were my musical genealogy, the songs that had informed him and would eventually inform me. He spent the afternoon making a list of songs for me. I can still see him, pensive, with his pencil raised above his legal pad, considering which songs would make the List. It was a list to educate me, to tell me about my Southern roots and my American history, about my legacy. He called the list '100 Essential Country Songs' but he could have called it '100 Essential American Songs,' because he included history songs, protest songs, early folk songs, Delta Blues, gospel, Texas swing, and standards that simply defy genre. I have held onto this List for 35 years."

The CD includes 13 songs from the List. I'd love to know the other songs on that List.