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Track Listing
1. Wheel, The
2. Seventh Avenue
3. Change Partners
4. Sleeping in Paris
5. You Won't Let Me In
6. From the Ashes
7. Truth About You, The
8. Tears Falling Down
9. Roses in the Fire
10. Fire of the Newly Alive
11. If There's a God on My Side
Album Notes
Personnel: Rosanne Cash (vocals, acoustic guitar); John Leventhal (vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica, piano, organ, harmonium, keyboards, bass, percussion); Steuart Smith (guitar); Charlie Giordano (accordion); Benmont Tench (piano, keyboards); Steve Gaboury (piano, organ); Zev Katz (acoustic bass, bass); Lincoln Schleifer (bass); Frank Vilardi, Dennis McDermott (drums, percussion); Bruce Cockburn, Marc Cohn, Patty Larkin, Tommy Malone, Catherine Russell (background vocals); Mary-Chapin Carpenter.
Engineers: Roger Moutenot, Scott Ansell, Alan Silverman, Ted Spencer.
On THE WHEEL, Rosanne Cash takes a further step toward broadening the confines of her career. Leaving Nashville (physically and musically) to move to New York City, this album reflects Rosanne's urbanization. It would be safe to say that a song about New York's "Seventh Avenue" is a rarity on Music Row. "If there is a God on my side, could she show me her face" is a lyric, one can be sure, she needed to leave Nashville to express.
Liberated and confessional ("I throw your roses on the fire/To make the flames a little higher/I watch your roses turn to dust/I know no man that I can trust"), this album offers a lot to savor. Richly textured musically and potent lyrically, Roseanne brings out an intellectually feminist perspective through her complex vision. Uncompromising, THE WHEEL keeps turning through pain and triumph. Not as unsettling and dark as INTERIORS, her superb 1990 release, it is equally intense in its reflective soul searching.
The instrumentation is not complex, but the music is dense. Her vocals are soft, yet driven by the strength of her lyrical intent. There is powerful therapy going on here, and whether it's addressing the pain or releasing the past, the spirituality deepens the aural scenery.
Industry Reviews
3.5 Stars - Very Good - ...Most remarkable about these tightly scripted songs is Cash's resilience....The pain is palpable, and so is the doubt, and in these things lie the raw matter of Cash's art...
Rolling Stone (03/18/1993)
Highly Recommended - ...explores the hungry heart with an obsessiveness that John Lennon would have admired...
Spin (04/01/1993)
Ranked #36 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Village Voice (03/01/1994)
...an intensely spiritual and ultimately uplifting album....THE WHEEL is as intimate as a coffeehouse concert... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (03/12/1993)
Ranked #7 on Entertainment Weekly's list of `The Best & Worst Recordings Of 1993' - ...This crystal-clear, intensely sung record rings startlingly true as it details the end of a marriage--and the renewal that can follow....
Entertainment Weekly (12/31/1993)
Ranked # 40 in Rolling Stone's Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums
Rolling Stone (10/31/2002)
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