Nearly eight years after Rosanne Cash last released a set of original songs, 2014´s The River and the Thread finds her in a reflective mood, and just as 2009´s The List saw her looking back with a set of classic songs recommended by her father, the late country legend Johnny Cash, The River and the Thread is dominated by thoughts and emotions that occurred to her as she was involved in a project to restore Johnny´s boyhood home. This doesn´t mean that Cash has returned to the spunky, country-accented sound of her most popular work -- this is still Rosanne Cash the mature and thoughtful singer/songwriter we´ve come to know since the late ´90s, and the tone of this album is unfailingly literate. But though this music isn´t country