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Rosanne Cash: Family Ties

Simon Garfield, The Observer, 5 February 2006

PRECISELY FOUR-and-a-half hours after a film about her father, mother and stepmother was nominated for five Oscars, Rosanne Cash walks into the Nicole Farhi store near her home in Chelsea, New York City, and orders chicken soup and cornbread at the adjoining cafe. She is wearing a green velvet hat, which she keeps on for the duration of her lunch, and a thick dark coat which she discards. She comments on the cold as she eyes a black leather jacket on one of the racks.

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