TIPPETT: And then, you know, I think it’s… CASH: She experienced all of that, right, that was… TIPPETT: Yeah, what - what she had - she experienced that right? I mean my mother’s version of things was that if you, um, were a musician or performer, you were away from home all the time and you didn’t have a private life and you got on drugs and you got divorced and had affairs and, you know, it didn’t sound very appealing. I didn’t think I would become a musician because I thought that meant that you would have a public life and get famous, and I didn’t want to do that. CASH: You know, I just would hole up with a book forever. I was a kid who asked my mother to drop me at the library on Saturdays. I mean I loved language from the beginning. TIPPETT: … before - then you became a writer, um, of music and a musician as well. And it seems like you’ve really experienced yourself to be a writer… So I said well that’s good enough for me. The source of all creativity, light, enlightenment, beauty, revelation, inspiration, all those things were in art and music.
And to realize that art and music was the kind of deity I was looking for. And then it took me well into my 20s and early 30s to really find something that was mine. And it took me a long time to first start shedding the way I had felt restricted by it and the punitive aspects of it. Sin, original sin - all of these concepts weighed really heavily on me. CASH: Well, I was really oppressed by what I thought what spirituality was, you know. TIPPETT: There’s this phrase in your memoir: “A life circumscribed by music.” So, you know, what was the shape of that growing up? How did that look like to have a life circumscribed by music?
And then the element, which I also think of as a spiritual element of your life was music, right? And when I was about 15, I said, “I don’t want to do this anymore.” And he said, “But, you know, I promised your mother.” I said, “I won’t tell her, if you won’t.” And I could see it was a moral dilemma for him, but he let me stop. He would sit in the back row and wait for us. He was very dutiful about that, you know. My mother made him promise that he would take us to Mass on Sundays. And then when we - my parents split up and we visited my dad in summer. But my father had to sign a paper when he married my mom, saying that he - the children could be raised Catholic. You know, he really looked for the mystical and religion and in all of life. My father, even though he was a Southern Baptist, had - he was a mystic. CASH: Well, both of my parents were very religious. I just want to hear a little bit about the religious and spiritual background that was there in your childhood. TIPPETT: I want to start where I start with everybody. L ” and he’ll pick up his guitar for us in a little while. He’s known to her Twitter followers as the mysterious “Mr. She arrived with her longtime manager Danny Kahn and her husband, the musician and producer John Leventhal. TIPPETT: I sat down with Rosanne Cash in 2011, backstage at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis.
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The songs that emerged, like all of her music these days, are full of life in the raw and of some form of “time travel.” That’s a phrase Rosanne Cash likes and gives new meaning. So does his death in 2003, and the “Black Cadillac” album she created from that same period in which she also lost her mother and her stepmother June Carter Cash. The legacy of Johnny Cash weaves throughout a conversation with her. She’s lost her voice for a stretch of years and had brain surgery. TIPPETT: She’s a mother of five a lover of language and of physics who surprised herself by becoming a performer.
But it also applies to this daughter’s mind and spirit. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: “Mystical” is one of the unexpected words the singer/writer Rosanne Cash uses to describe her father Johnny Cash. ROSANNE CASH: I want so much to touch those things in my life and in my work, and I just keep looking for the veil to be lifted even in a fraction of a moment you know.
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