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Johnny Cash's album, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, was recorded in 1964, in collaboration with folk musician/activist Peter La Farge, just one year after Cash's hit, Ring of Fire. Journalist and filmmaker Antonino D'Ambrosio tells the story of the making of the album, its historical context, and the social justice movements that inspired it in his new book, A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears (Nation Books). Antonino D'Ambrosio is also the author of Let the Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Politics of Joe Strummer, the film version of which, directed by D'Ambrosio, is due to be released in early 2010. "A rich history, not only of Johnny Cash's life, but of the Indian struggle for justice, which inspired Peter La Farge to write the song, 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes' and Cash to sing it. The book is full of fascinating character sketches of the great folk singers of the Sixties, and their part in the social movements of that exciting era." - Howard Zinn. Joining us this evening to perform some of the songs is Seattle musician/songwriter Rocky Votolato. Formerly frontman of Waxman, he now performs music influenced by that which shaped his early life in Texas.
