Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Johnny Cash’s landmark album ‘Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian,’ this compilation features Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Bill Miller and many more.
Of all the dozens of albums released by Johnny Cash during his nearly half-century career, 1964’s Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian is among the closest to the artist’s heart. A concept album focusing on the mistreatment and marginalisation of the Native American people throughout the history of the United States.
Now, 50 years after it was recorded, a collective of top Americana artists has come together to re-imagine and update these songs that meant so much to Cash.
For Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited, creative leader and album producer Joe Henry (Bonnie Raitt, Aaron Neville) realised that the Bitter Tears album held a special place in Cash’s canon, and that in many ways the issues it raised still resonate today.
The album features American music giants Kris Kirstofferson, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Bill Miller, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and Norman Blake (the guitarist and only surviving member from the original recording sessions), interpreting the music of Bitter Tears for a new generation.