Pop/Country - In 1973 Johnny Cash gave his young daughter Rosanne a list of 100 "essential country songs" and told her that to learn them all. She couldn't, after all, subsist totally on a musical diet of The Beatles and southern California rock -- this was going to be her "education." Thirty-five years and eleven excellent albums of her own later, Rosanne Cash pays tribute not only to her father's wishes and memory but to the classic, uniquely American music of her upbringing with her new album The List. Featuring some impressive guests - Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Rufus Wainwright - Cash resurrects twelve songs from her father's recommended songbook and, with husband/producer/guitarist John Leventhal, creates a disc that is at once classic and uniquely modern.

"This album enables me to validate the connection to my heritage rather than run away from it," she observes, "and to tie all the threads together: past and future, legacy and youth, tradition the timelessness." The collection of songs, she says, came from Johnny's "intuitive understanding of each critical juncture in the evolution of country music." From early pioneers such as Jimmy Rodgers and Woody Guthrie to the roots of rockabilly and the beginnings of modern country music with Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and Hank Snow to critical influences from "outsiders" like Bob Dylan, Cash's list was, and is, a "standard of excellence." See the full track listing after the jump...

Rosanne Cash - "Take These Chains From My Heart" (from the album The List)

Rosanne Cash - "Sea of Heartbreak" (with Bruce Springsteen, from the album The List)