Saturday, May 30, 2020

Rosanne Cash - Live from Zone C - Living Room Concert, New York City, 11-2-2011

I've been posting lots of home concerts from lots of different musicians lately, with more to come. But one musician who I'm surprised has been missing so far is Rosanne Cash. She's done some songs here and there recorded from home during the coronavirus lockdown, but not enough for an album of music. Hopefully that'll change by and by. But in the meantime, here's something similar from her. She had the home concert thing down pat nine years in advance, back in 2011.

In that year, Cash's record company had released "The Essential Rosanne Cash," a double album compilation of her best songs from throughout her career. To help promote that, Cash performed a concert in the living room of her New York City apartment, with just her guitar plus her husband John Leventhal on another guitar. (Leventhal is also her longtime musical collaborator and frequent songwriting partner.) The concert was professionally recorded for both audio and video. However, the audio has never been released on record, and only the video for about eight of the songs came out on the Internet. This is the whole concert, which is a few minutes short of an hour long.

One thing that makes this concert special is that instead of playing her usual set list, she limited herself to playing the 13 most popular songs out of the 36 songs on "The Essential Rosanne Cash."  So she played a lot of songs that she hadn't played in years, or even in decades. And I'm especially a fan of the solo acoustic format, without the sound quality issues of having an audience. Weirdly, she'd never released a live album in her long career. But if I were to pick just one live concert to hear from her, I think it would be this one.

01 talk (Rosanne Cash)
02 Sea of Heartbreak (Rosanne Cash)
03 talk (Rosanne Cash)
04 September When It Comes (Rosanne Cash)
05 talk (Rosanne Cash)
06 Seven Year Ache (Rosanne Cash)
07 talk (Rosanne Cash)
08 500 Miles (Rosanne Cash)
09 talk (Rosanne Cash)
10 Never Be You (Rosanne Cash)
11 talk (Rosanne Cash)
12 The Good Intent (Rosanne Cash)
13 talk (Rosanne Cash)
14 Runaway Train (Rosanne Cash)
15 talk (Rosanne Cash)
16 Western Wall (Rosanne Cash)
17 The Way We Make a Broken Heart (Rosanne Cash)
18 talk (Rosanne Cash)
19 Blue Moon with Heartache (Rosanne Cash)
20 talk (Rosanne Cash)
21 Black Cadillac (Rosanne Cash)
22 talk (Rosanne Cash)
23 House on the Lake (Rosanne Cash)
24 talk (Rosanne Cash)
25 Sleeping in Paris (Rosanne Cash)
26 talk (Rosanne Cash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15285136/RosanneC_2011_LvefromZoneCLivngRoomConcertNewYorkC__11-2-2011_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is a photo from the exact concert in question.

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for this great show. I Lost my copy in a HD crash. Stay safe.

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  2. Really appreciate your attention to Rosanne's work. She's too often overlooked; The River and the Thread is on my short list of all-time favorite albums.

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    1. I totally think she's overlooked. I think she fell into a gap between genres, once she stopped being a pure country artist.

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  3. I was at Rosanne's house that evening -- even handled the live tweeting!

    http://www.kennethinthe212.com/2011/11/preview-rosanne-cash-live-from-zone-c.html

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