The daughter of Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian Liberto, Rosanne Cash carved out a musical path all her own.  She charted twenty-two country singles under her own name while at Columbia Records between 1979 and 1995, embracing contemporary textures while never forgetting her roots and her role in the distinguished lineage of country music.  On December 15, one of her most acclaimed and personal albums, 1993's The Wheel, will return in a remastered deluxe edition from RumbleStrip Records.

Cash's eighth studio album, The Wheel marked a new beginning for the singer-songwriter.  She had broken up with husband and collaborator Rodney Crowell, moved from Nashville to New York, and begun a creative and personal affiliation with songwriter-producer John Leventhal, whom she would later marry.  Many of the introspective, intimate compositions (four of which were co-written by the couple) ruminated on the numerous changes in her life, and while neither of the singles from The Wheel charted, that was no reflection on their quality.  As a songwriter, singer, and musician, Cash was at the revealing top of her game, whether tackling commitment, betrayal, love, or sex (or all of the above).  She welcomed Mary Chapin Carpenter, Marc Cohn, Patty Larkin, and Bruce Cockburn as guest vocalists, and the Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench and Eagles' Steuart Smith among the musicians.  Leventhal played numerous instruments on the record including guitar, bass, mandolin, piano, organ, keyboards, harmonica, and percussion. "John and I grew closer with every session," Rosanne shares in the press release for this reissue, "and by the end of the record we were a couple.  The music was both a revelation and the revelator."

The Wheel was well-received upon its debut on the Columbia label.  Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Rosanne Cash sounds as if she's lived every word she sings on The Wheel - and she probably has."  Rolling Stone observed that the album "makes her singer-songwriter shorthand a cathartic outlet, not merely a blunt weapon."  Now, its reputation only having grown over the past three decades, Cash is returning to The Wheel on her own RumbleStrip Records.

The deluxe anniversary edition has the remastered original album on the first CD, while the second disc contains Rosanne's performance from Austin City Limits on July 26, 1993 as well as six rare tracks originally from the Columbia Records Radio Hour program.  These include renditions of The Wheel's songs (the title track, "The Truth About You," "Roses in the Fire," and "Seventh Avenue"), the Interiors track "What We Really Want," and a reinterpretation of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" from My Fair Lady.  (Cash and Leventhal are currently co-writing a long-in-development musical adaptation of the film Norma Rae; they premiered some of its songs on a New York stage back in 2018.)

Various vinyl editions of the album will also be available on December 15 including 1LP and 2LP versions.  Look for The Wheel: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition at the links below!

Rosanne Cash, The Wheel: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (RumbleStrip, 2023)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1LP (Vinyl Me, Please Exclusive: Clear with Black Swirl): Vinyl Me, Please
2LP Marble Swirl and Other Exclusive/Signed Editions: Rosanne Cash Shop

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CD 1: Original Album (Columbia CK 52729, 1993)

1. The Wheel
2. Seventh Avenue
3. Change Partners
4. Sleeping in Paris
5. You Won't Let Me In
6. From the Ashes
7. The Truth About You
8. Tears Falling Down
9. Roses in the Fire
10. Fire of the Newly Alive
11. If There's a God on My Side

CD 2:

Austin City Limits, July 26, 1993

1. The Wheel
2. Seventh Avenue
3. I'll Change for You
4. Crescent City
5. Sleeping in Paris

Live for The Columbia Records Radio Hour

6. Seventh Avenue
7. Roses in the Fire
8. The Truth About You
9. What We Really Want (issued on Columbia CK 66466, 1995)
10. Wouldn't It Be Loverly (issued on Columbia CK 66466, 1995)
11. The Wheel