Rosanne Cash Plays Kingsbury Hall Tonight

Singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash's current tour celebrates the release of her Grammy-nominated new album, The River and the Thread. Rosanne and her band will perform at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus tonight, February 21 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 to $49, with a $5 ticket for U of U students, and are available at www.kingtix.com or by calling 801-581-7100.

One of the most compelling figures in popular music, with a body of work encompassing country, rock, roots and pop influences, Rosanne Cash inherited a reverence for song and profound artistry - and an equal duty to find insights of her own. The oldest daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash and stepdaughter of June Carter Cash of the legendary Carter Family, she holds a lineage rooted in the very beginning of American country music, with its deep cultural and historical connections to the South. Over a three-decade career she has responded to this heritage with 15 albums of extraordinary songs that have earned a GRAMMY Award and nominations for 12 more, the Americana Honors and Awards' Album of the Year Award, and 21 top-40 hits, including 11 No. 1 singles.

Her current album, The River and the Thread (January 2014, Blue Note Records), is a collection of new original songs that connect and re-connect Rosanne to the American South, the place of her birth and the home of her ancestors. In the album, Cash evokes the "bittersweet stories of people and places of the South," in a kaleidoscopic examination of its geographic, emotional and historic landscape.

Written with her longtime collaborator, producer, guitarist and husband John Leventhal, the album reflects journeys through the Southern states, with stops at William Faulkner's house; Dockery Farms, the plantation where Howlin' Wolf and Charley Patton worked and sang; her father's boyhood home in Dyess, Arkansas; the Sun Records Studio in Memphis; and the Mississippi Delta, with its memories of the birth of the Civil Rights era and the haunting gravesite of the great bluesman Robert Johnson.

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