In the Mix

Rosanne Cash posted a message on her web site yesterday stating that she's cancelling her tour schedule for the rest of the year to undergo brain surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital for "a rare but benign condition." The language makes it seem not all that serious - she's "expected to make a full recovery and will return to the studio to complete the recording of her debut for Manhattan Records" and plans to be back on the road in March -- though the words "brain surgery" sound pretty serious to me. Here's hoping all goes smoothly for Cash, an exquisite singer who's gone through plenty of heartache of late with the deaths of her father Johnny and step-mother June in 2003 and her mother Vivian in 2005. This song, from a Craig Ferguson show last year, is from Black Cadillac, her 2006 album that processed that pain.