"Atheism is very very bad for the business of songwriting". At 3 minutes 25 seconds, on writing from the atheist basis that everything ends with empirical truth, Nick Cave says that his writing reaches beyond that. It is abundantly clear to me, since the first time I heard him sing, at Cambridge Folk Festival in 1999, that his writing comes from somewhere beyond that.
Here's another interview with Austin City Limits. On his musical influences: watching The Johhny Cash Show on TV in a small town in Australia, ...
Johnny Cash cover of Nick Cave's The Mercy Seat:
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds 1985 cover of Wanted Man:
They have a new album being released in a week or so, called Ghosteen 💀👀
See For Greta and Helen for another angle on this curious psycho-geological phenomenon we are witnessing. Making a whole new world out of the most abundant human resource in the Universe: pain.
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