“Simply to be clear – Johnny Money was my hero. I used to look at him as a baby. They performed The Johnny Money Present on TV in Australia. I obtained to sit down there as a baby and see this man with a voice – there was one thing about this voice that simply adopted me all my life,” Cave stated, explaining his historical past of admiring Money earlier than he ultimately went on to document a canopy of Cave’s monitor, “The Mercy Seat”, which was initially carried out by Nick Cave and the Unhealthy Seeds on the 1988 album Tender Prey.
Happening to recall the expertise of duetting with Johnny Money on the Hank Williams track, “I am So Lonesome I May Cry”, he stated he was afraid of singing alongside Money “due to gravitas of his voice”.
“After I obtained there fairly early on the studio and when he arrived – this was near when he truly died – and he was not effectively in any respect. After I noticed him, he was a form of terrifying apparition of a person so totally different to the person I assumed him to be,” Cave recalled. Describing the second he formally met Money, he stated: “He sat down with me and he stated, ‘Look, , I’ve had the flu, I’ve had laryngitis, I’ve no voice. I’ve by no means requested Jesus for something, however I needed to carry out with you at this time. Final night time I dropped down on my knees and I stated, ‘Jesus, I obtained to sing with Nick. Give me again my voice.”
He revealed Money stated that he awoke that very morning, “singing like a chicken”. “Then he sat down – this depleted man – and simply reworked from this form of struggling particular person into one thing actually extraordinary, actually earlier than my eyes.”
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