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"Rosanne Cash's new album, The River and the Thread, references a series of visits she recently made to the Deep South, where she and her husband John Levanthal, who produced the album, explored her family's roots and the region's history.\nMashable spoke with Cash \u2014 daughter of Johnny \u2014 last week about how those visits formed the spine of the record. \nSEE ALSO: Rosanne Cash Talks Songwriting, Twitter and How Streaming Hurts Musicians\n\n\"We started to go down to the South more often to see my friend Natalie, who was teaching me how to sew, and we\u2019d go to Memphis and then back to Arkansas,\" Cash said. \"We took this trip down Highway 61, which is where all the pieces fell into place. Highway 61 was mythic. We went to the Tallahatchie Bridge. We went to Robert Johnson\u2019s grave. We went to Money, Miss. Once we got away from it and started processing what we had seen and felt, we started writing songs.\" \nNow, she is releasing a lyric video for the album's leadoff song, \"A Feather's Not a Bird,\" which was prompted by a drive through Mississippi into Florence, Ala. \nYou can learn more about the song and the places it references on Cash's Pinterest board.\n\"I can\u2019t claim the idea for doing a lyric video,\" she said. \"Much bigger brains than mine have come up with these ideas. But I love it because I love lyrics. And I would hope people would want to actually read the lyrics by seeing these videos. They wanted to do something that was elegant and more artful than putting up Helvetica and the lyrics. I think it\u2019s quite beautiful. Maybe it\u2019s a way to get into the song via YouTube.\"\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments. \nBONUS: 5 Questions for Rosanne Cash\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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