Summary
As teenagers, most of us felt that the music our parents listened to simply wasn't cool. Then again, most of us didn't have one of the giants of American music -- and for many people, the epitome of cool -- for a father.
As the story goes, Rosanne Cash was 18 when her father, Johnny Cash, noticed that she was obsessed with the Beatles but didn't know much about the country music that ran through her blood. So he made her a list of the "100 Essential Country Songs" -- though it ran the gamut from folk to blues to rockabilly -- and gave it to her as a crash course in American music.See the full content of this document
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Legacy in a List
When she established her own career in the 1970s and 1980s, Cash never rode on the long, black coattails of her father. In fact, she went out of her way to make sure that no one could accuse her of nepotism by polishing her songwriting, penning songs in genres other than country, moving to New York City, and downplaying her lineage wherever possible. Nonethe...
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