LISTEN: Rosanne Cash's 'The Killing Fields'
Rosanne Cash's new song "The Killing Fields" grapples with a dark part of southern United States history: lynchings. The singer-songwriter wrote the song, she shares, during the summer of 2020. "A few years of my own personal reckoning with painful issues of race, racism, privilege, reconciliation and individual responsibility led up to the moment in the summer of 2020, when finally no one could avert their eyes from the truth of white privilege in America, and the damage and sorrow caused by systemic racism," says Cash, who is the daughter of country legend Johnny Cash, himself known for sev...