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 Rhythm & Romance Aug 07, 2009
Cash's first foray into a total non-country album had mixed results - with radio and Sony/CBS. Neither knew exactly what to do with it - so not much happened.
It was also Cash's first foray at a record no helmed by Rodney Crowell. It was an experiment that needed to happen and though she did another record with Crowell, 'Rhythm & Romance' really set the tone of where she'd branch out in her career.
The song selection, overall is spotty, yet fine - though the sequencing is not. Leading off with one of its weakest tracks, "Hold On", I think was there to quell the country-buying public.
One of Cash's most accessible tracks "I Don't You Why You Don't Want Me" follows and is pretty fun to this day - and still her only Grammy win. And I am partial to Cash's cover of Maria McKee's "Never Be You" over the original.
Few can reach the depth of emotion that Cash seems to pull from her own songwriting the way she does with certain tracks, including "Second to No One".
After that it is a little more hit and miss. She always scores when covering a John Haitt song ("Pink Bedroom"), but I could never get into the final two tracks. Oddly, I've always held a soft spot for "Halfway House" even though it if you break it down, it is just kind of marginal - I still like it a lot.
'Rhythm & Romance' isn't a classic disk, nor a classic Cash disk. It's just an vital launching point to 'Interiors' and 'The Wheel'.
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 I Don't Know Why They Don't Re-Release This Apr 05, 2006
RHYTHM AND ROMANCE still ranks as Roseanne Cash's masterwork fully twenty years after its original 1985 release.
Although widely ignored by traditional country enthusiasts Cash's electric guitar-based country presaged such monster acts as Shania Twain and Faith Hill in the 1990s. The overtly sexual, Barbie-pink album jacket was a feminine gauntlet thrown down amidst a male-dominated musical form that was fossilized in its own tracks. Roseanne, the daughter of the original "Man In Black" came to us in full female color.
"I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" was the chartbreaker, but RHYTHM AND ROMANCE had four hit singles and a Grammy. And unlike Twain and Hill (and their many imitators), Roseanne is truly wistful, painfully honest, and aggressive by turns, able to wring real tears out of most of the songs on this album. In short, it works as both traditional country and crossover material.
Still the piece de resistance amongst female country music albums, RHYTHM AND ROMANCE is as fresh today as it was when the needle first met the platter.
Never mind the compilation version. If you can find the original, get it.
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Strong and Vulnerable Mar 20, 2003
One thing I have always loved about Rosanne Cash is the fact that she was not afraid to bare her soul in her songs, and yet we could all relate to them on some level. I love Rosanne because she is a strong, powerful woman, yet sensitive at the same time. The first thing out of her mouth on this CD is "If you want to keep a woman like me, you gotta hold on!" Wow!! The first 4 songs were the singles and they are not only very catchy, but have so much to say. Even though these songs were released in the mid 80's, I still listen to this CD here in 2003 and love it just the same. Aside from the singles, I really enjoy the heart-felt tune dedicated to her father, Johnny Cash, "My Old Man". I love the totally rockin' "Never Gonna Hurt" - a song many of us who have had bad relationships could relate to. I even love the acoustical closing song, "Closing Time". I remember this release being very controversial at the time; partly because of the album cover, because her music was 'too loud' for country radio, and also by the song "Second to No One" because of a certain word she used in it - some radio stations banned the song. But, this disc went on to garner 4 Top Ten Hits (2 went to #1) and she earned a Grammy for the song "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me". I always knew who Rosanne Cash was before this release, but this was the disc that sold me as a huge fan of hers and she has yet to disappoint me. When I think back to the best of the 80's, this CD is definitely one that comes to mind.
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