Peter La Farge was a shooting star -- an unsung hero at the crossroads of folk, protest music, country, blues and love songs. He was a rodeo cowboy, an actor, a singer and songwriter. He was a husband, a father, and a drug user. He was a pioneering folk singer in 1960s Greenwich Village and the first to gain national prominence singing about the plight of Native Americans. He knew the admiration and friendship of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. But that wasn't enough to sustain him. His story is a hard one and a sad one -- a ballad worthy of the traditions he revered. Rare Breed: The Songs of Peter La Farge with music from Johnny Cash, new covers from Hank Williams III, Sarah Lee Guthrie, John Densmore (The Doors), Blackfire, John Trudell and other folk, country, and Native artists will be released in 2010 in conjunction with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian's exhibit on La Farge.