An often omitted gem in Johnny Cash's discography.

Complete your Johnny Cash collection. This album is more relevant now than ever. Thank You Johnny Cash for standing in solidarity and helping give Native Americans and Native American issues a voice.

Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian is a 1964 concept album, the twentieth album released by singer Johnny Cash on Columbia Records. It is one of several Americana records by Cash. This one focuses on the history of Native Americans in the United States and their problems. Cash believed that his ancestry included Cherokee, which partly inspired his work on this recording.

Custer is told from the American Indian view point and questions how the battle would have been viewed if the outcome was reversed (a slaughter or a victory). The song does not hold back it's contempt for General Custer. White Girl is the story of an Indian man who is used as a "toy" by a white woman who never intended the relationship to be serious. After Peter's death, and after "Bitter Tears" showed there was a market for Indian protest ballads, Buffy St. Marie hit it big during the final years of the so-called "Folk Revival". But first was Pete LaFarge, and then Johnny. If the subject interests you at all, owning this CD would be wise.

Bitter Tears is the twentieth album that has been released by Johnny Cash. The album focuses on the problems the Native Americans had to deal with. In 2014, Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited released. This tribute album contains covers by Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris. Bitter Tears: Ballads Of The American Indian Q&A. Producers Don Law & Frank Jones. Writers Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton & Peter LaFarge. More Johnny Cash albums. The Legend of Johnny Cash.

More albums from Johnny Cash. 7 tabs The Essential Johnny Cash (2013). 9 tabs The Greatest: Country Songs (2012). 1 tab The Greatest: Duets (2012). 1 tab American VI: Ain't No Grave (2010). 1 tab American V: A Hundred Highways (2006). 4 tabs The Legend (2005). 4 tabs My Mother's Hymn Book (2004). 1 tab Unearthed (2003). 21 tabs American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002). 5 tabs 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Johnny Cash (2002). 1 tab American III: Solitary Man (2000). 7 tabs American Recordings (1994). 4 tabs The Mystery Of Life (1991)

Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West is a conceptual double album and the 22nd overall album released by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1965 (see 1965 in music).

Johnny Cash (born . Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. View full artist profile. Play all. The Highwaymen.