Rosanne Cash: Romance, rock and realism in the new Country
Geoffrey Himes, Musician, October 1982
THE ENDURING appeal of country music has been its ability to describe the messy problems between men and women with accuracy and poignancy. For years, country has offered clean cut moral answers to these problems for its rural, Bible Belt audience. But now a new generation of country listeners has grown up in a world in which relationships between men and women have changed drastically — in which the conclusions are not so obvious, not so certain. Songs that can accurately describe this generation's experiences will have to be couched in complexity as never before.
Total word count of piece: 2777
