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This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross.

This week we're featuring some of our favorite music interviews from our archive.

Today we'll hear an interview with singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash.

She started out recording country music, had several number one hits and won a Grammy,

but then left Nashville and established herself as a singer-songwriter in the world of Indie Rock.

Since then, Cash has worked across many musical genres, including country rock, folk, pop, and American roots.

She has won four Grammys and was nominated for 12 others. In 1973 when she was 18, her father, Johnny Cash,

gave her a list of 100 essential country songs he thought she needed to know.

At the time, she was more interested in writing her own songs than interpreting the songs of others.

But in 2009, she returned to her father's list and recorded 12 of the songs on it.

I spoke with her when that album, called the list, was released.

We started with a song from the album, a song called Sea of Heartbreak, Bruce Springsteen sings on this one.

The lights in the harbor don't shine for me, now I'm back all the ship, but drift on the sea.

Sea of Heartbreak lost the loneliness, memories of your presence, so divine, I wish you would lie in again my dear.

All the sea of tears, sea of heartbreak.

Roseanne Cash, welcome back to Fresh Air.

Well, thank you, Terry.

Tell me why you wanted to record this record. We'll get to the whole list in a second, but of all those songs on the list.

Why Sea of Heartbreak?

It's kind of a perfectly constructed country song, and it was on the list, so that gave me permission.

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