Nick Cave - John the Revelator

Nick Cave singing 'John the Revelator' by Blind Willie Johnson. This is from one of the classic Hal Willner concerts that took place in 1999 and 2001. This can be found on The Harry Smith Project: The Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited box set that just came out.

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• Revelator
• Hal
• Willner

[evgad87]

yes jack white and nick cave are "white boys" but who the hell in popular black music is keeping this tradition alive today? good thing someone is. i never realized how much nick was indebted to the blues masters, i used to just think it was boring old man music kept alive by eric clapton...then i got into nick cave and he led me to go back and learn about son house, j lee hooker, blind lemon jefferson, blind willie mctell, skip james etc.

[chrisnouvelle41]

wooo hoooo...low down raw soul rifffs and nicks damn gorgeous strong voice!!

[dzdzenis]

Cave Nick -10 Depeche mode + 10 Amen

[drivebymessiah]

@flamekat2002 maybe. Then again Nick Cave was never a great singer: far from it, and I still seem to like his stuff better than a 101 excellent singers. I'd call it it kind of good and terrible. Either way, I contend it has character and conviction which may be the most important qualities to have.

Or maybe just being a miserable alcoholic helps the appreciation along.

Raise a glass if you have one.

[mangouldbarrington1]

@flamekat2002 word. I agree, nick didn't sing too well on this one this time!

[Zaturnity]

OMG! GENIUS! I FREAKIN' LOVE Nick Cave.

[eduardtoth]

This is amazing

[clcnoize]

Please listen the Cover by ''clitoris less cunt '' :) Son house - John The Revelator

[tibs2403]

@AddictedToTheStones

I doubt it's not... non - intentional. I'm sure they sing that way on purpose. Most of Cave's work is like that... sort of fucked up on every level, even musically. It adds to the eeriness ( how do you spell that? ).

[texnroxy]

ok this is fuckn great. it cant get any cooler but so much cool hurts my hea

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[waterfallsandrain]

This song, in all incarnations, fascinates me.

[AddictedToTheStones]

I have never heard such off key singing by back up singers.....fuckin tone deaf!! brutal I can't even listen to this....