Music in her past, present, and future

August 12, 2010|By Steven Rea, Inquirer Staff Writer
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"There were things that I had to leave out," she explains, "because I didn't want to hurt people. I didn't want to lose my dignity by doing any score-settling, and I wasn't interested in . . . telling the details of why I got divorced, out of respect for my children. But the things I left out don't fundamentally change the story. They're just out of respect."

Cash has plans afoot to collaborate on a recording with Billy Bragg and Joe Henry. And she has her book to promote - she was on Good Morning America the other day, and she's heading south and then west after her reading at the Free Library.

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"I'm a little nervous," she says, wondering how Composed will be received. "In songwriting there's always poetic license, and you can obscure details. And this is, by definition, naked. So this is the first time for me. I feel like I'm a beginner again."

 


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