Rosanne Cash Expands Tour, Will Receive American Ingenuity Award

Johnny Cash's daughter, Rosanne Cash, who has become a prominent Americana performer in her own right, tacked on a few more shows to her recent run of fall dates in support of her album The River & The Thread.

Cash's new gigs, intermixed with some previously scheduled performances with husband/producer John Levanthal, will take place in Los Angeles at Royce Hall (Oct. 2) and New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (Feb. 14), Rolling Stone Country reports. In addition to the expanded tour, Cash will be receiving Smithsonian magazine's American Ingenuity Award next month, which will be presented by T Bone Burnett. Nine other winners will be announced in the future. Last year, St. Vincent and David Byrne were honored, among others.

"I'm greatly honored to receive the prestigious Ingenuity award," Cash said, "and the fact that it is being presented by my old friend T Bone Burnett is a tremendous thrill."

The singer has been on quite a hot streak lately. She was nominated for three awards earlier this month for the Americana Honors and Awards where she performed "A Feather's Not a Bird" from her 2013 release that climbed to the top of Billboard's Country Albums chart. Cash admits that she finds joy in the simpler pleasures though, like shopping with her husband. "I grew up in a chaotic world," she told RS at the beginning of the year, "and things like going out with John to buy a refrigerator and knowing where the post office is, those things are really important to me. I know that some people think that to expand as an artist you have to get away from that. Those things make me feel safe."