6/25/2023 0 Comments Leonard cohen nick cave![]() As Cave would later celebrate: “It doesn’t matter what anyone says, Johnny Cash recorded my song.” In the songs that flowed from Cave in later years, a lot of that same cloaked ether can be found, particularly in tracks like ‘Mercy Seat’ which Cash would go on to lend a searing cover of. I watched him and from that point, I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.” At that stage, I had really no idea about rock ‘n’ roll. “I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about nine or ten years old. “I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash,” Cave wrote in a Guardian obituary. Growing up in the 1960s, the Johnny Cash Show was a ubiquitous presence in newly modernised lounges around the world, and for many, his man in black ways proved quite daunting, including a young Cave. Prior to the aforementioned life-changing wallop of that first band or artist who seems to turn the black and white world of your youth into bohemian technicolour, there is always that first daring artist who somewhat scares you. ![]()
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