I recommend you give "Interiors" a close listen, if you haven't already. (As I often do when mixing in live tracks with studio ones, I edited out the clapping at the end of those songs to make them sound like studio tracks too.) In fact, a handful of them are still unreleased, but I luckily found soundboard quality bootlegs of them being performed in concert. A few of them have made it on various retrospectives, but most of them remain surprisingly obscure, even though she wrote the vast majority of them. I've gathered a bunch of tracks from her "Interiors" era. I've noticed that when an artist is hitting a creative high point, even their stray tracks from around that time are usually excellent. I don't mean to oversell it by comparing it to one of the greatest albums of all time, but it reminds me some of "Plastic Ono Band" by John Lennon in that she clearly was going through some troubled emotional times and expressing that through her music. That's a shame, because "Interiors" is my favorite album by her. She's never been a big seller ever since.
As a result, the country music industry and her own record company basically dropped her like a hot potato, and her sales plummeted. But then for her next album, "Interiors" in 1990, she basically abandoned country music for more of a confessional singer songwriter style, and she seemingly followed her artistic muse with little concern about getting more hits. 1 country hits, and she sold the most of any country artist that year. In the 1980s, Cash became a country music star. I hope to post a fair amount of her (non-official album) stuff here to hopefully turn some people on to her music. She's so much more than just Johnny Cash's daughter. Rosanne Cash is a very underappreciated artist, in my opinion.
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