The Essential Collection [2xCD] - Rosanne Cash

Beginning in the 1970s and continuing to the present day, Rosanne Cash has staked out a distinctive place in American music. Her songs have drawn on rockabilly rhythms, the truth-telling of folk-rock songwriters, West Coast country-rock energy, new wave flash and deeply rooted country music. 

Throughout her career, she has maintained an unwavering artistic spirit and vision. In 2021, Cash became the first female composer to receive the MacDowell Medal, awarded since 1960 to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture. 

The Essential Collection creates a space, one in which Cash controls the stories she tells, the masks she wears, the light shed. These two discs represent over 40 years of work- of songwriting, singing, and collaboration, and of struggle, loss, renewal, insecurity, power, longing, and curiosity.

Disc 1

1. Seven Year Ache
2. Tennessee Flat Top Box
3. Blue Moon with Heartache
4. The Wheel
5. The Way We Make a Broken Heart
6. What We Really Want
7. Sleeping in Paris
8. Never Be You
9. Runaway Train
10. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
11. I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me
12. On the Surface
13. Seventh Avenue
14. On the Inside
15. You Won't Let Me in
16. Hold on
17. No Memories Hangin' 'Round (With Bobby Bare)
18. If You Change Your Mind
19. It Hasn't Happened Yet
20. My Baby Thinks He's a Train

Disc 2

1. A Feather's Not a Bird
2. Black Cadillac
3. Sea of Heartbreak (With Bruce Springsteen)
4. September When It Comes (With Johnny Cash)
5. When the Master Calls the Roll
6. The Only Thing Worth Fighting for
7. The Killing Fields
8. Western Wall
9. Heartaches By the Number (With Elvis Costello)
10. The World Unseen
11. The Long Way Home
12. She Remembers Everything
13. House on the Lake
14. List of Burdens
15. Long Black Veil (With Jeff Tweedy)
16. Modern Blue
17. God Is in the Roses
18. Girl from the North Country
19. Rules of Travel
20. The Sunken Lands