Cash, Rosanne
Seven Year Ache
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

1981 Original in shrink. “Blame whomever you want to for Garth Brooks and Shania Twain, but the bottom line is that Rosanne Cash's masterpiece "Seven Year Ache" paved the way for all of those folks as well as for Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, and then some. Proclaimed by Cash and her husband/producer/collaborator, Rodney Crowell, as "punktry," the album adds an entirely new twist on the Nashville sound. Perhaps it is because this is l.A. Country and reflects the cocaine bliss sound of the era as well as Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" does. Utilizing everything from synthesizers and rock arrangements to pop ballad-styled charts and plenty of attitude, "Seven Year Ache" yielded three number one singles and songs by rock musicians such as Tom Petty and singer/songwriters like Keith Sykes and Steve Forbert. Of the singles, Cash penned two; the title track, which is a sorrowful indictment of her husband's philandering ways, and the shattering ballad "Blue Moon With Heartache." the third, the smash "My Baby Thinks He's A Train," was written by Asleep At The Wheel's Leroy Preston. Musically, the band included many of the same players from the right or wrong sessions, with the emerging vocal talent of former Pure Prairie League member Vince Gill. Forbert's "what kinda girl" is almost rockabilly in its shuffling intensity and punk bravado. It dares the listener to define the protagonist just to shatter the preconception.” AMG – Thom Jurek