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Film: Documentary The Ballad of Peter LaFarge

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Peter LaFarge could've been one of those unsung souls that people write sad tunes about. Instead, he wrote the songs himself. Among them was "The Ballad of Ira Hayes," which Johnny Cash rode all the way up to number three in 1964. Cash was pals with LaFarge — as were Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, all of whom swung alongside the half-Indian cowboy crooner throughout the early part of NY's folk heyday. Yet unlike his cohorts, LaFarge never made it out; he was found dead in his apartment at 34. Here, director Sandra Schulman assembles the arcana of a tragic life.

– John Hood