Johnny Cash: Bitter Tears (180g) auf LP

Bitter Tears is a concept album released by Johnny Cash in 1964. It is one of several Americana records by Cash. As the title implies, the tracks on the album focus exclusively on the history of and problems facing Native Americans in the United States. And not without success: “The Ballad of Ira Hayes”, about the story of Ira Hayes, a young Marine of Pima, reached No. 3 on the Country charts. The album is a sensitive, clear-eyed take on the unfair treatment of the American Indian. It's stark and moving, his best Americana album of the 60s.

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»Der Sound ist und bleibt allerdings festes Country-Idiom mit etwas zu vielen Hintergrundchören. MOV hat dieses aufrichtige Album zum Glück nicht in künstlichem Stereo, sondern authentischem Mono wiederveröffentlicht. Hörenswert.«
(Good Times, Februar / März 2016)