Roots of Nick Cave

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  • Release Date: 03/24/2009
  • Sales Rank: 88,123
  • Label: SNAPPER UK
  • UPC: 636551006422

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Roots of Nick Cave

1LISTENBlue Suede Shoes / Carl Perkins 2:17
2LISTENShake, Rattle and Roll / Big Joe Turner 3:00
3LISTENKeep a Knockin' / Little Richard 2:22
4LISTENCat Man / Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps 2:19
5LISTENI Put a Spell on You / Screamin' Jay Hawkins 2:26
6LISTENI'm Gonna Kill That Woman / John Lee Hooker 3:02
7LISTENBottle Up and Go / Leadbelly 1:52
8LISTENWade in the Water / Ella Jenkins 4:02
9LISTENJesus Met the Woman at the Well / Alabama Singers 2:10
10LISTENAnother Man Done Gone / Odetta 2:10
11LISTENBlack Betty / Leadbelly 1:53
12LISTENMourning Song / Harry Belafonte 3:24
13LISTENFever / Little Willie John 2:42
14LISTEN99 Ways / Charlie Gracie 2:18
15LISTENLost Highway / Hank Williams 2:42
16LISTENThe Streets of Laredo / Roy Rogers 2:19
17LISTENDown in the Willow Garden / Hobard Smith 2:48
18LISTENShine on Me / Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers 3:02
19LISTENKing Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O / Chubby Parker 3:10
20LISTENStack O' Lee / Mississippi John Hurt 2:56
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A collection of 22 mostly blues tracks that either influenced or were covered by Nick Cave, this set works just fine as an anthology even without the Cave connection. And it isn't all blues, either, with songs like Screamin' Jay Hawkins' voodoo-tinged R&B masterpiece "I Put a Spell on You" and Hobart Smith's and Texas Gladden's string band and fiddle-based Appalachian murder ballad "Down in the Willow Garden" also included. Most of this set, though, is comprised of darkly themed vintage country blues and field hollers, and tracks like Blind Willie Johnson's urgent and harrowing "John the Revelator," Leadbelly's sparse field shout "Black Betty," and Mississippi John Hurt's gentle retold cautionary tale "Stack O'Lee" are classics by any definition and influenced a whole lot more folks than just Nick Cave. Cave took this material, and without changing much at all, brought its dark, desperate vision into a modern format. The original template is here. Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

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