101 strangest records on Spotify: Johnny Cash – Bitter Tears. - guardian The sleeve notes proclaim that Cash “sings well these tales of the Indian’s woe [and] Johnny is justified in the stand he takes [as he] is proud of his Cherokee blood”. It is worth remembering that in 1964 Cash was deep into his pills and whiskey trip. So while he may have convinced himself, and told many more, that he was of Native American stock, with both Cherokee and Mohawk blood in his veins, of course, he had neither. “The higher I got,” he told Penthouse magazine in 1975, “the more Indian blood I thought I had in me.” (excerpt) theguardian/music/2015/jan/21/the-101-strangest-records-on-spotify-johnny-cash-bitter-tears
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