Johnny Cash - Bitter Tears: Johnny Cash Sings Ballads of the American Indian (1964)

Our guest today is a longtime friend of the podcast, David Lebovitz. He brought us two album choices and while it's always an enticing idea to discuss Warren Zevon, we tabled that and begged for him to talk about a really weird Johnny Cash album with us instead. Thankfully, he bent to our will. If you've never heard of this particular Johnny Cash album, you're in for quite a ride. We dig into why it's such an intriguing and mystifying entry in his catalog of work -- and David came prepared with quite a bit of material.

Big thanks to him for putting this album in front of us! David's all over the place on socials -- here are his many links in the form of a good old-fashioned link dump, as the kids call it.

https://twitter.com/leboism

https://bsky.app/profile/leboism.bsky.social

https://letterboxd.com/leboism/

https://ko-fi.com/leboism

https://thedavidbugle.substack.com/

David also suggested the following Salon article for further reading about this album.

Here also is the documentary that he references during the conversation, plus the book about Bitter Tears.

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