Question One: Rosanne Cash, during her 28 year recording career, has recorded two of her father's songs and has sung one duet with the "Man in Black." What were those recordings?

Answer: On her first album, Right or Wrong, released in 1979, she recorded "Big River," a song written by her famous father in 1958. On King's Record Shop (1987), she recorded "Tennessee Flat Top Box." While her 2006 release, Black Cadillac, celebrated the lives of her parents (father, John; mother Vivian Liberto; stepmother, June Carter Cash) and memories of her childhood, it was on her 2003 release, Rules of Travel, that she recorded "September When It Comes" as a duet with her father. The song was written by Rosanne and husband John Leventhal. Rosanne has also written two critically acclaimed books and is working on a third.

Question Two: Carlene Carter's 1979 album, Two Sides To Every Woman, featured guest musicians Paul Schafer, Clarence Clemons, and John McFee of the Doobie Brothers. Her boundaries have always been movable, both musically and in her personal life. Who was her famous father? What British rocker did she marry? What Doobie Brothers' song did she co-author?

Answer: Carlene Carter was born Rebeca Carlene Smith, to June Carter and country legend Carl Smith. When she left Nashville at 22 to record with Graham Parker's band, the Rumour, she met Nick Lowe, whom she eventually married. Living in a world somewhere between rock 'n' roll and country (Tom Petty bassist Howie Epstein – long-time boyfriend who passed away in 2003 – produced two of her records), she co-wrote "One Step Closer," a hit for the Doobie Brothers. Carlene has had several country-tinged hits and continues to record and cross boundaries.

Question Three: The term used for popular "black" music before the 1950s was "race music." Eventually, the term "rhythm and blues" took its place. Who is responsible for the new definition? When was the phrase first coined?

Answer: Ahmet Ertegun's partner Jerry Wexler invented the phrase 'rhythm and blues' in 1949 (when he was working at Billboard Magazine). He used it to replace the word 'race' as the formula descriptive term for the popular black music of the day. He wanted it to encompass two coexisting postwar trends in black music, the jump song and the blues song. By 1953 the term 'rhythm and blues' was being used to describe all black popular music.

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