After the death of her mother, father and stepmother, all within a two-year period, we could have been excused for thinking Rosanne Cash was going to give us a bleak look inside her thoughts in song. On The List, it is clear that she has instead found a more measured, lovely and redemptive outing that looks back to go forward.

When Cash turned 18, her father gave her a list of what he considered 100 essential American songs. Cash kept that list, and now she’s drawn on it for this recording, which brims with a kind of redemptive timelessness. The List is a renewal and a testament to life, and it belongs to her father as much as it belongs to her; a beautiful restatement of her father’s passions, only now, they’ve become his daughter’s treasures, as well.

Songs include Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country, Harlan Howard’s Heartaches by the Number (with Elvis Costello), a spooky duet with Jeff Tweedy on Long Black Veil, and a duet with Bruce Springsteen on Hal David and Paul Hampton’s Sea of Heartbreak.