Books did this for me at one time in my life.

But when it comes to music – I am one of those people with a love for song – but no musical ability at all.

A few steps closer to Larry McMurtry than Ms. Cash…

Hard to imagine a view of music as the daughter of Johnny Cash…

The legacy and tradition of it reminds me of this.

Because my peripheral vision is more acute than my direct powers of observation, and my love of an A-minor chord is more charged and refined than my understanding of my own psyche, I have often attempted to explain my experiences to myself through songs: by writing them, singing them, listening to them, deconstructing them, and letting them fill me like food and water. I have charted my life through not only the songs I’ve composed, but the songs I’ve discovered, the songs that have been given to me, the songs that are a part of my legacy and ancestry.

-Rosanne Cash, Composed (Amazon)

Still one of my favorite videos of them: