Rosanne Cash - The Wheel (30th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1993/2023) [CD-Rip]

Rosanne Cash left Nashville in the early 90's. The first album she recorded in New York with John Leventhal, The Wheel, celebrates 30 years with an exclusive 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition that features a 2023 Remastered version of the original album and an additional 11 tracks from the 1993 Live from Austin City Limits and Live from The Columbia House Records Radio Hour sessions, making their digital debut. Rosanne says of the album, "It’s satisfying and sweet to re-introduce The Wheel in this thirtieth 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. We listen to this record now, and wish we had mixed the vocal a little louder on this track, or had a different guitar sound on that track, but honestly, it’s perfect for its time and place. I have a friend who doesn’t believe that artists evolve, but that there are only different stages and expressions. I’m not sure about that, but in either case, I’m so grateful for The Wheel. It turns out I can’t orchestrate the movement of the stars. They do that all on their own."

Like the dark, cathartic Interiors, The Wheel is an introspective, soul-searching set of confessional songs revolving around love and relationships. While many of the themes and emotions of Interiors are repeated on The Wheel, Rosanne Cash hasn't repeated herself, either lyrically or musically. Working from the same combination of folk and country that has fueled her songwriting throughout her career, she has created an album of subtle, melodic grace that helps convey the deep feelings of her lyrics. It's an immaculately produced album, but that never detracts from the emotional core of Cash's music. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

AllMusic Review by Mark Deming
Rosanne Cash's 1993 album The Wheel came at a time of great personal and professional change for the celebrated singer and songwriter. Her marriage to Rodney Crowell, who was her closest musical collaborator as well as her husband, was in its death throes while she was recording 1990's Interiors, and after Columbia Records dropped the ball on promoting it, the newly single Cash left Nashville for New York City, where she wrote and recorded The Wheel. The recording also took place while she found herself falling in love with multi-instrumentalist John Leventhal, who co-produced the album with Cash. The Wheel is a remarkable set of songs that reconciles the pain of the past with the heady energy of starting a new life. While the record does indulge in a few of the tropes of the classic "breakup album" – "Roses in the Fire" is an artfully bitter kiss-off to Crowell – Cash seems more interested in the changes that fate has put in front of her as she revels in the adventure of her new surroundings in "Seventh Avenue," ponders the stakes of ending one relationship and beginning another on "Change Partners," and gives herself some much needed affirmation on "From the Ashes." Cash was never a cookie-cutter country artist, always a bit more literate and sophisticated than her peers without looking down on her audience, and with The Wheel, she essentially broke her ties with Nashville and its ways of doing things. The album is grown-up pop music that's beautifully crafted and rich with nuance, matching the emotions of Cash's lyrics and giving the melodies an uncluttered beauty that's as fearlessly honest as her past work, even as she explores new ways to tell her stories. While Cash was always a fine vocalist, The Wheel features some of the finest performances of her career, achingly affecting and expressive without stooping to histrionics. Rosanne Cash had been steadily evolving as an artist throughout the 1980s; on The Wheel she gave herself the space to become the artist she truly wanted to be, and it's a subtly dazzling experience.

Tracklist
01. The Wheel (2023 Remaster)
02. Seventh Avenue (2023 Remaster)
03. Change Partners (2023 Remaster)
04. Sleeping In Paris (2023 Remaster)
05. You Won't Let Me In (2023 Remaster)
06. From The Ashes (2023 Remaster)
07. The Truth About You (2023 Remaster)
08. Tears Falling Down (2023 Remaster)
09. Roses In The Fire (2023 Remaster)
10. Fire Of The Newly Alive (2023 Remaster)
11. If There's A God On My Side (2023 Remaster)
12. The Wheel (Live From Austin City Limits 7/26/1993)
13. Seventh Avenue (Live From Austin City Limits 7/26/1993)
14. I'll Change For You (Live From Austin City Limits 7/26/1993)
15. Crescent City (Live From Austin City Limits 7/26/1993)
16. Sleeping In Paris (Live From Austin City Limits 7/26/1993)
17. Seventh Avenue (Live From The Columbia Records Radio Hour 5/16/1993)
18. Roses In The Fire (Live From The Columbia Records Radio Hour 5/16/1993)
19. The Truth About You (Live From The Columbia Records Radio Hour 5/16/1993)
20. What We Really Want (Live From The Columbia Records Radio Hour 5/16/1993)
21. Wouldn't It Be Loverly (Live From The Columbia Records Radio Hour 5/16/1993)
22. The Wheel (Live From The Columbia Records Radio Hour 5/16/1993)