Rosanne Cash

You might get the mistaken idea that Rosanne Cash is male-defined. Aside from the obvious
reasons–father Johnny made country music her birthright, husband-producer Rodney
Crowell lets her borrow his backup band–there's the music itself. On her fine, hard-edged
second album, Seven Year Ache, Cash does a cunning variation on a trick that female rock &
rollers have been pulling for a long time (but few as obsessively or wittily). She t... More >

It's a tribute to persistence of something-or-other that somebody should still be getting decent music out of the sterile studio-rock formula. What that something-or-other might be is perhaps indicated by the identity of the somebody, who is second-generation pro rather than a punk revoloo. (Grade: B+)