Rosanne Cash To Release 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Of ‘The Wheel’

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Rosanne Cash is celebrating the 30th anniversary of her album The Wheel with the release of an expanded, remastered deluxe edition on Nov. 17.

The Wheel 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes the original, remastered album, along with a second live LP, featuring Cash’s 1993 Austin City Limits appearance and a rare broadcast of the Columbia Records Radio Hour. This is the first-ever vinyl release for The Wheel, and the inaugural release for RumbleStrip Records, the label founded by Cash and husband John Leventhal. RumbleStrip Records works in partnership with Thirty Tigers for distribution.

Recorded in the early ’90s when Cash first moved to New York City, The Wheel sparked a reinvention of her sound and career. The Wheel sessions included Benmont Tench, Bruce Cockburn, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Marc Cohn and Steuart Smith, among others.

Co-produced by Cash and Leventhal, the album was the beginning of a lifelong creative partnership, and together, they have made seven albums including The River & the Thread, Black Cadillac, The List, 10 Song Demo, Rules of Travel and She Remembers Everything, alongside dozens of side projects and thousands of live performances. Cash and Leventhal have also written the music and lyrics for the upcoming Broadway musical Norma Rae.

“John and I grew closer with every session, and by the end of the record we were a couple. The music was both a revelation and the revelator. It’s satisfying and sweet to reintroduce The Wheel in this 30th anniversary year. I can’t look back at that time and separate the music from love. What was true then has become more true and more alive every day since,” recalls Cash.

Cash and Leventhal will continue to revisit the music and stories behind The Wheel on a special run of shows in November. For more information, click here.

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