The Essential Rosanne Cash

Trying to nail down Rosanne Cash to any one genre is a fool\'s game. But by including cuts from each step of her artistic journey, this collection lets you follow Cash\'s musical evolution phase by fascinating phase. From the start, she set out to show she was more than just her daddy Johnny\'s little girl, with everything from the smoldering, bluesy \"Baby, Better Start Turnin\' \'Em Down\" to the worldly wise pop smarts of \"Seven Year Ache.\" By the mid-\'80s, she was delivering big, bold, elaborately produced pop-rock hits like \"I Don\'t Know Why You Don\'t Want Me\" and \"Never Be You.\" But she never really lost touch with her roots—in 1987 she scored a smash with her take on Johnny\'s \"Tennessee Flat Top Box.\" By the time Rosanne graduated to the intense, melancholy tunes of *Interiors* and the lush, lambent feel of *The Wheel*, she had nothing to prove to anyone. This anthology makes it obvious that her claim to her own corner of the Cash legacy is an undeniable one.