The songs that Nick Cave would take on a desert island

Nick Cave He was a guest at Desert Island Discs, the historic BBC radio program that requires his guests to appoint the eight songs that they would choose to keep with them if they were exiled to a desert island.

During the program Nick Cavewho released the album last year “Wild God” (Read the review here), spoke to the presenter Lauren Laverne of many topics, among these his education in Australia, the death of his children, Arthur and Jethro, and the influence he had on him

Johnny Cash When Nick saw him for the first time on television when he was just a boy.

The 67 -year -old Australian musician said: “There was something in Johnny Cash who really captured me. It was the first time I saw the potential of the music of being evil, outlawed and dangerous. He seemed like a dangerous type. It was Dressed in black and started the program by saying, ‘hello, I’m Johnny Cash’ and turned around.

Nick Cave
he would then record a cover of
“The Singer”
Of
Johnny Cash
In his 1986 cover album
“Kicking Against
The Pricks “
and then he sang together with Cash in a version of the classic of
Hank Williams
“I’m So Lonesome i couuld cry”
Included in the latest studio album of the Man in Black in 2002
“American IV: The Man Comes Around”
(
Read the review here
). Another duet between Cave and Cash, a version of the Traditional Folk
“Cindy”
was published posthumously in the box
“Unearthed”
(
Read the review here
) in 2003.