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Amazon.com

Black Cadillac is darker than its predecessor, but with melodies often more complex and lyrics more stunningly poetic than anything its creator has conjured before, the album is more transforming than depressing, and exquisitely beautiful.

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NOW Magazine

At times, Cash nails the knife-edge of hurt and love so adeptly, you feel like you're intruding on too-personal confessions.

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All Music Guide

This album is extraordinary. It is brave, difficult, and honest. It is utterly moving and beautiful. Because it so successfully marries all of her strengths as a songwriter, singer, and musician, Black Cadillac may be the crowning achievement of her career thus far.

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Entertainment Weekly

The best of Cash's nuanced compositions... turns her healing process into great art. [27 Jan 2006, p.84]

Billboard

As personal as the album is, there is a universal quality to Cash's songwriting that will make listeners embrace the intimate feelings here as their own. [18 Feb 2006]

Mojo

A tear-stained, yet tasteful, requiem. [Feb 2006, p.93]

The Guardian

There's no over-personalising and, God Is in the Roses aside, no easy sentimentality.

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Uncut

The most intense record of Cash's career. [Feb 2006, p.68]

PopMatters

Cash is an expert detailer who doesn’t pander to navel gazing, and was somehow able to produce a detached, yet emotional response to her grief.

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Rolling Stone

At every turn -- high-mountain balladry, brassy R&B, near-metallic blues rock -- Rosanne sings of coming through loss with a poise and confessional will that are utterly country and absolutely in the family tradition.

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Neumu.net

Lyrically Black Cadillac is exquisite. Musically it's far more than a country record, expanding into those mighty rooms of roots music and pop-rock where Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind and Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road shine and burn against their own dark palettes.

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Village Voice

She emerges with her genius for genre-bending intact.

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Stylus Magazine

Cash takes time to recapture these relationships through simple, detailed moments; at times with grief, and other times with the joy of their memory.

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Los Angeles Times

It's a lot for anyone to get their hands around, but Cash grips tightly to the aspects of loss she has been able to process, even if the enormity of that task escapes her grasp at times. [21 Jan 2006]

Q Magazine

Morbid, maybe, but she handles it all with dignity. [Mar 2006, p.106]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 21 User Votes

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Todd W gave it a6:
I saw this tour recently and I was non-plussed to say the least. It's sad that Rosanne lost her dad, arguably one of the true giants of our culture, but trying to translate her loss into music is taking Joe Fanatic Rosanne Fan into the realm of discomfort. Her showcase featuring this album is a mess. Something about water, stark landscapes, dead leaves, and blurry automobiles. She's right when she said it's not a summer party album. It's not even fit for the Addams Family. For all of you lapdogs who gave this a perfect score, you hearby have your reviewing credentials permanently revoked. If you want to hear a truly flawless album by Rosanne, pick up "Interiors." Which leads me to another bone to pick, this one with her handlers. You're representing one of the best female artists on the planet, and you idiots didn't even have half of her records on sale during the "Rules of Travel" tour. You all should be banned to a lifetime of listening to the Opry cows.

Hugo Chavez gave it a10:
I recently had the honor of watching her perform at Carnegie Hall and meeting her afterward. I consider myself a HUGE fan now. Black Cadillac is to me, about journeys of the soul, heart and coming up stronger, wiser and more at peace. She's even greater live - a true artist!

Jyotirmaya D gave it an8:
This album is very personal. Like listening in to Johhny's daughter's bedside chat to herself, confidential but she is bearing it all and it is a beautiful listen. But the phrase "Westward leading, still proceeding?" Where have I heard that before? Some one tell me?

Dave A gave it a0:
No good.

sylvio m gave it a4:
Rosanne is good, always does, but in this album, she's just average... with a few good songs and many poor, hushed, boring songs.

ks ks gave it a10:
The best Rosanne has done yet.

Hari S gave it a9:
Absolutely Brilliant. It's one of my favourite albums this year. I think everyone should get this album, even if you dont normally listen tp this kind of music, you will love this album

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