And the Welcome one and all to So the Jaker on song rating episode 136. This is Brian, here as always with Simon, and

joining us today is a Grammy-winning American singer, songwriter, author, activist, and member

of the Nashville Songwriterwriters Hall of Fame.

She's also bona fide music royalty

as she's the daughter of the legendary Johnny Cash.

In early November 2018, on the very day we recorded the interview in fact,

she released an excellent new studio album,

her second on Blue Note Records entitled She Remembers Everything.

It's the follow-up to 2014's rapturously received triple Grammy winning, The River and The Thread.

We're delighted to welcome the wonderful Rose and Cash to the show.

Our guest was born in 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee.

She and I share of birthday, in fact, 24th of May. Small world.

And she was raised in California. She began writing her own poetry aged around 8 or 9 and

caught the songwriting bug as a teenager influenced by the likes of Buffalo,

Crosby Stals and Nash, Joanie Mitchell and of course the Beatles.

She was initially resistant to follow her dad into music but after graduating high school she joined him out on

tour working as a wardrobe assistant and occasional backing singer. Johnny went on to record

her song Love Has Lost Again in 1976, her first professionally recorded work as a composer.

That same year, Roseanne worked briefly in London for CBS before returning to Nashville to

study English and Drama at Vanderbilt University. She recorded their first album in 1978, which was never released in America and is now something of a collector's item.

However, it did come to the attention of Columbia, who duly offered their record deal.

Her first Columbia album, Right or

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