Rosanne Cash is putting her musical legacy on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The singer recently donated several items to the institution, including a custom acoustic guitar that was gifted to her by her father, Johnny Cash, as a birthday present in 1979. The personalized item has her name inscribed in a pearl plaque on the fretboard and boasts a mushroom emblem next to the sound hole.
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Her family’s legacy is also enshrined in a collection of jackets worn by Cash, her father, and stepmother June Carter Cash on the Seven Year Ache Tour in 1981 that was in support of the younger Cash’s third album of the same name. The black and blue jackets display each of their names, along with a patch of the Cherry Bombs logo, the backing band on the tour consisting of Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, and others.
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“My Seven Year Ache tour jacket from 1981 is going into the Country Music Hall of Fame today. I’m so proud and also a little emotional, and happy it will be forever preserved in their archives and available to see at some point,” Cash wrote on Instagram about her jacket, asserting that “it has magic in it.”
Cash recently teamed up with The National on “Crumble” off the band’s new surprise album, Laugh Track. “I’m absolutely thrilled to guest on the new @TheNational album,” Cash said on X (formerly known as Twitter). “Singing with @Mattberninger is a dream.” Laugh Track follows First Two Pages of Frankenstein released in April 2023.
“‘Laugh Track’ is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years,” as described in a press release. “If ‘Frankenstein’ represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20-plus years together, the vibrant, exploratory ‘Laugh Track’ is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent.”
On November 17, Cash will release a remastered deluxe edition of her album, The Wheel, in honor of its 30th anniversary.
Photo Courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
