{"id":22303,"date":"2014-09-18T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=22303"},"modified":"2014-09-19T09:36:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:36:50","slug":"listen-to-gillian-welch-and-david-rawlings-cover-johnny-cashs-as-long-as-the-grass-grows-for-new-cash-tribute-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-09\/listen-to-gillian-welch-and-david-rawlings-cover-johnny-cashs-as-long-as-the-grass-grows-for-new-cash-tribute-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Cover Johnny Cash’s “As Long As The Grass Grows” for New Cash Tribute Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Music<\/a><\/p>\n

One month from now will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Johnny Cash’s<\/strong> release of Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 At the height of the Civil Rights era in 1964, the album was released by Cash<\/strong> to add to the human rights spotlight the injustices done to Native Americans.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, producer\/artist Joe Henry<\/strong> gathered together a cast of superb Americana artists (Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Steve Earle, and Norman and Nancy Blake<\/strong>, amongst others) to pay tribute to the album and the anniversary by recording a new album entitled Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited<\/em><\/strong> on SonyMasterworks<\/strong>.\u00a0 The album is out now.<\/p>\n

To get a feel for the depth and quality on the tribute album, check out below (via Rolling Stone<\/a>) Welch’s<\/strong> and Rawlings’<\/strong> melodic modulation of (a la Bragg\/Wilco<\/strong> to Guthrie’s<\/strong> poetry) Cash’s<\/strong> originally spoken-word cut As Long As the Grass Grows. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Cash’s <\/strong>winning way with words (“Cornplanter can you swim?”) is on display in the telling of the Seneca<\/strong> tribe’s broken treaty and the dam that broke their hearts.\u00a0 Lake Perfidy<\/strong> indeed.<\/p>\n

After listening to Welch<\/strong> and Rawlings<\/strong>, you can watch the Man in Black<\/strong> perform the original live with June Cash<\/strong> and Pete Seeger <\/strong>in , and the song’s lyrics are at bottom.<\/p>\n

You can pick up this worthy album HERE<\/strong><\/a> and HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n