One musical release of 2010 I should have mentioned in my retrospective was Rosanne Cash's memoir Composed. It's not music but it's musical and should be considered along with the CDs as a musical event. Open the cover not, those looking for a blow by blow account of Nashville Babylon, her own or her father's (actually I don't think she had one of her own) or even any messy domestic details surrounding marriage/divorce to Rodney Crowell- it's mentioned more than once of course, this being an account of a life, but in a ... mature way that speaks of lessons learnt and growth and whatnot. I do not mean to make it sound precious, for Cash is wickedly funny although for a full exposure to that side of her I recommend her Twitter feed; she's a riot. Rodney Crowell himself has an autobio coming out and at the time of its launch she tweeted something about hoping he was as nice to her in his book as she was to him in hers. LOL.

Composed is very much about an artist, the winding road to knowing you want to be one, to becoming one and living as one.