Seven Year Ache by Rosanne Cash

Seven Year Ache, Rosanne Cash's third album and her second for Columbia, came out on February 27, 1981, with Rodney Crowell producing, and it's the record that made Johnny Cash's eldest daughter a star in her own right. It went to number one on Billboard's country album chart, and the title track was her breakthrough, topping the country singles chart and crossing over to the pop top 30.

This is country with its doors thrown wide open, rock and pop drifting in, Cash singing with a cool, knowing edge. "My Baby Thinks He's a Train" and "Blue Moon with Heartache" followed the title song as singles, and she worked the talk shows to push it, starting with Merv Griffin. The album was mastered days after John Lennon was murdered, and Cash had the engineer scratch a farewell to him into the run-out groove of the first 25,000 copies.

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