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Fact #103395

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Short story:

Johnny Cash spends the first of two days of recording sessions in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, working on tracks for the album Bitter Tears : Ballads Of The American Indian. The completed album will include six songs by Greenwich Village songwriter Peter La Farge.

Full article:

Peter La Farge (songwriter) : I was with Johnny Cash at Nashville when he cut Bitter Tears. That album grew out of Ira Hayes, the song he sang at Newport. And a beautiful thing happened: Johnny's records were suddenly recognised as folk music by record dealers across the nation and are now sold as such. He's my blood brother and I even know what's wrong with him. He cares too much