Nick Cave - Covers With Others (2011)

For my second collection of Nick Cave's cover versions I've selected a number of songs which he performed either as a duet with another artist, or as guest vocalist on a friend's album. Once again, the sheer variety of songs on here shows his eclectic taste in music, from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's 'Bedazzled' at one end of the spectrum, via country music on Hank Williams' 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry', to his superlative reading of the Leonard Cohen classic 'Suzanne'. A couple of these artists aren't that well-known, so Anita Lane was a former girlfriend of Cave's, and was briefly a member of The Bad Seeds, co-writing a number of songs with Cave while with the band. Chris Coco is a pseudonym of DJ Christopher Mellor, who, as well as being was one of the first house music resident DJs also makes downtempo, ambient albums. His 2002 release 'Next Wave' not only features Nick Cave, but also author Iain Banks and guitarist Peter Green. Die Haut were an experimental German post-punk and post-rock band, who enjoyed some local success in Berlin during the 1980's and 1990's, and hopefully the rest of the artists are well-known enough to need no introduction.
The songs on this album come from the following sources:
'All The Pretty Little Horses' is Nick's vocal contribution to the title track of Current 93's 'All The Pretty Little Horses (TheInmostLightItself)' album from 1996 
'I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)' is Nick helping out on Die Haut's 1988 album 'Headless Body In Topless Bar'
'Sunday Morning' is taken from Chris Coco's 2002 album 'Next Wave'
'Bedazzled' is from Anita Lane's 1995 single 'The World's A Girl'
'Cindy' is taken from the 2006 Johnny Cash album 'Cash Unearthed'
'She's Not There' is from the 2011 soundtrack album to the TV series 'True Blood'
'I Love You...Nor Do I' is also from Anita Lane's 1995 single 'The World's A Girl'
'Kiss Of Love' is a Jools Holland/Sam Brown song from Holland's 2003 album 'Friends 3'
'Suzanne' is taken from the soundtrack of the 2005 film 'I'm Your Man'
'The Big Hurt' is from the soundtrack of the 1997 film 'Mojo'
'What A Wonderful World' was a 1992 single by Cave and Shane McGowan
'Free To Walk' is from the 2009 Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute album 'We Are Only Riders'
'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' is from the 2002 Johnny Cash album 'American IV: The Man Comes Around', and
'The X Files Theme' is from the 1996 'Songs In The Key Of X' compilation album
The cover is based on Reinhard Kleist's graphic novel 'Mercy On Me'.   

Track listing 

01 All The Pretty Little Horses (with Current 93) (Trad./Current 93)   
02 I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (with Die Haut) 
                                                                                                                        (Mickey Newbury)
03 Sunday Morning (with Chris Coco) (Lou Reed/John Cale)         
04 Bedazzled (with Anita Lane) (Peter Cook/Dudley Moore)  
05 Cindy (with Johnny Cash) (Trad.)     
06 She's Not There (with Neko Case) (Rod Argent)
07 I Love You... Nor Do It (with Anita Lane) (Serge Gainsbourg/Mick Harvey)   
08 Kiss Of Love (with Sam Brown) (Sam Brown/Jools Holland)   
09 Suzanne (with Perla Batalla & Julie Christensen) (Leonard Cohen)                      
10 The Big Hurt (with Gallon Drunk) (Wayne Shanklin)                                  
11 What A Wonderful World (with Shane McGowan) (Weiss/Douglas)      
12 Free To Walk (with Debbie Harry) (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)       
13 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (with Johnny Cash) (Hank Williams)
14 The X-Files Theme (with The Dirty Three) (Mark Snow)