The Movie:
Antonino D’Ambrosio’s 2015 documentary We’re Still Here: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited takes a look at two related subjects. The first is the history and cultural importance of Johnny Cash’s 1964 album Bitter Tears: Ballads Of The American Indian and the second a 2014 effort to re-record the album with a host of current and classic country artists filling in where Cash, who passed away in 2003, could not. D’Ambrosio also wrote the book 2009 book, A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, which was clearly the inspiration for the documentary, so he knows the subject quite intimately.
Let’s start with the album. Bitter Tears, for those who haven’t heard it, was inspired by the Civil Rights movement that was gripping America at the time. Cash, who believed he had some Cherokee heritage, saw a lot of parallels to t…Read the entire review
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