Comments on: A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Antonino D'Ambrosio on Johnny Cash

By: ewalden

ewalden — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:46:50 +0000

I’m sorry that on the show a great number of names of so-called famous performers were mentioned, however, you didn’t mention that the song – The Ballad of Ira Hayes – was written by Peter LaFarge. I noticed that you included that fact on the web page but annoyingly under the trivializing preface of a “now forgotten song writer, Peter LaFarge.” Forgotten by whom? Not by those of us still alive who knew him! Forgotten by the music Biz who can no longer make money on his songs? Don’t help them promote their exploitive agenda, Please.
Eleanor Walden
Coordinator,
Committee to Nominate Pete Seeger for the Noble Peace Prize
http://www.nobelprize4pete.org

By: gordsd

gordsd — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:37:54 +0000

Yeh, I didn’t know about Bitter Tears–although I’ve always liked the Ballad of Ira Hayes off his Greatest Hits album. So now I’m gonna git the whole Bitter Tears album and the Book too. Easy to get wealthy if a nation takes free land, enslaves people, and goes and continues to plunder natural and cultivated resources of other peoples. No wonder the radio stations wouldn’t play it!

By: winston99

winston99 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:53:24 +0000

Great interview – big fan of Johnny Cash, but didn’t know much about Bitter Tears. I loved the performance – beautiful song…