Johnny Cash and that rebel album on the side of the Indians

Rebel songs, born by attending the reserves, listening to the stories and singer for thirst for justice. And then become, over time, of the hymns. Came out in 1964 and shocked the country scene of the time, linked to the imagination of the white man cowboy. Johnny Cash, country music legend and beyond, He made a revolutionary album totally on the side of the American Indians, inspired by their stories. An album that, for his political and social chargegenre radios tried to censor, with Cash who at first had to pay the media spaces in his fist to try to make his songs known as many people as possible. The work in question is “Bitter Tears: Ballad of American Indian”.

In fact, throughout the Cash album, it focuses on hard and unfair treatment inflicted on the indigenous population American, raising Tradition and history of the Roomsa. The songs are written in part by Cash and partly from the Folksinger Half Peter La Farge. In “Custer” the popular veneration for General George Custer is picked and ridiculedbecame an icon for his battles against the Indians. In “The Talking Leaves” The theme of the invention of written words by SequoyahNative American that He advanced the literacy of the country. The real masterpiece remains “The Ballad of Ira Hayes”then also sung by Bob Dylan.

The piece focuses on the story of the Indian soldier Ira Hamilton Hayes: He had been among the Marines immortalized in the act of hoising the stars and stripes flag after the historic battle of Iwo Jima during the Second World War. Except that on the return home, marginalized as Indian, he had reduced himself to poverty and had died of hardships at just over thirty years also due to the drought he suffered from the territory assigned to his tribe. The song dedicated to him, who does not want to forget his story, today is considered among the 100 best western songs of all time.