Rosanne Cash: The List

"In a backstage room a couple of hours prior to showtime, [Cash and husband John Leventhal] are poking at a container of warm chicken and a bowl of limp salad. 'These shouldn’t be in here,' Cash says. 'It’s in my rider: No cucumbers.' She laughs, then adds, 'I’m serious. I hate cucumbers.' Sitting down to eat, Cash says she wants to start tonight’s show with 'What We Really Want,' a song from the highly personal Interiors. Leventhal is against the idea, preferring to go with their usual opener, 'I’m Movin’ On,' a jaunty Hank Snow number that appears on Cash’s 2009 album, The List, a collection culled from a handwritten list of 100 great American songs that Johnny Cash gave his daughter when she was an 18-year-old neophyte. Leventhal, who produced The List and came up with its impeccable arrangements, makes his case: 'I’m serious, sweetie. Why would you mess with a good thing?' Speaking of 'I’m Movin’ On,' he says, 'it always goes over, it’s fun, it’s not all that serious'" (Jim Windolf, "Country in the City," New York, 8/9/10).

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