S2 E5: Rosanne Cash on "Night Life"

Published: March 23, 2021, 9 a.m.

b'Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, a four-time Grammy winner and certified roots music royalty, examines \\u201cNight Life,\\u201d one of Willie\\u2019s first compositions to earn its way into the American musical canon. It\\u2019s a song that makes her nostalgic for the clean-cut, smooth-crooning Willie of the early \\u201860s, but also brings up the effect of a Depression-era upbringing on artists like Willie and her dad, Johnny Cash. Oh, and she also breaks out her cell phone to play one of her favorite covers of \\u201cNight Life\\u201d\\u2014by none other than Aretha Franklin.'