Rosanne Cash visits MPR studios ahead of Friday performance

Rosanne Cash is out with her first album of original work in eight years, "The River and the Thread," a record recorded on the road.

"There's more vitality, space and texture to this album than on any of Cash's previous softer-edged recordings, and I hasten to clarify that those were no slouches either," wrote Carl Wilson for Slate. "The writing and production may not be as urgent as it was in her 20s and 30s, but she's mastered an ease and expansiveness she lacked back then."

From her interview with Time:

I had never written an album with so many songs in the third person, character or narrative driven, but there is still so much of me in this, even with poetic license. "A Feather Is Not A Bird," that's my story of the South. "Modern Blue," that's me and John traveling the world and finding our way back home, which is really each other. Memphis becoming a sign post for finding each other as well as for the real Memphis. John kept pushing me out of myself telling me not to write about myself, not to write about my feelings. He was pushing me to write even more in the third person, but I think we're both happy with the way the album turned out.

Cash joins The Daily Circuit along with her husband and musician John Leventhal in studio to talk about the album ahead of Cash's performance Friday at The O'Shaughnessy on St. Catherine University's campus.

She also performs at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University on Saturday.

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