June Carter Cash

June Carter Cash's posthumous album is many things. It is an Appalachian epitaph rising through wild mountain thyme. It is the shaky soundtrack to a harvest barn dance where ghosts of the Carter family join hands and sing. And it is also an acoustic reflection of the life and love that the Carter/Cash family shared.

The daughter of mother Maybelle Carter and wife to Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash was an
extraordinary entertainer in her own right; fittingly, she says goodbye with a lovely
bouquet of songs, recorded a few months before her death at seventy-three in May. Cash
spent her life in music, traveling as a child with her mother's pioneering trio, the Carter
Family, then alongside her sisters and mom and, finally, for the last forty years w... More >