Tale of a Wooden War
1969 · Monument mn45-1107 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Kenny Jones
- Title
- Tale of a Wooden War
- Release
- Tale of a Wooden War / Is This the Way of the Free
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Monument # mn45-1107
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- Kenny & Danny Jones
- Genre
- Folk · Psychedelic Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song "Tale of a Wooden War" Kenny Jones (1952-1969), 16 year old son of Helen Carter (of the Carter Family) - Johnny Cash's nephew-in-law. Anti-war
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Kenny Jones (1952-1969), 16 year old son of Helen Carter (of the Carter Family) - Johnny Cash's nephew-in-law.
About the artist
Kenneth Burton Jones (1952 - 1969), American songwriter and singer; second son of Helen Carter of the Carter Family and Glenn Jones, grandson of Maybelle Carter and nephew-in-law of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Signed to Monument Records and considered destined for a major career, he was killed in an automobile accident at 16. Johnny Cash recorded his 'Sing a Traveling Song' ('Hello, I'm Johnny Cash', 1970) and performed it in tribute at Madison Square Garden (1969); the Carter Family later recorded his '2001 Ballad to the Future'. Buried beside his mother at Hendersonville Memory…