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The blues had long been a potent undercurrent in the Birthday Party's music, so it wasn't all that surprising that Nick Cave embraced the sound and feeling of rural blues on his second album with the Bad Seeds, The Firstborn Is Dead. What was startling was how well Cave and his bandmates -- Barry Adamson, Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld -- were able to absorb and honor the influences of artists like Skip James and Charley Patton while creating a sound that was unmistakably their own. The moody obsessions of rural blues -- trains, floods, imprisonment, sin, fear, and death -- seemed made to order for Cave, and he was able to tap into the doomy iconography of this music with potent emotional force.
Tracklist
1 Tupelo (2009 Digital Remaster)
2 Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree (2009 Digital Remaster)
3 Train Long Suffering (2009 Digital Remaster)
4 Black Crow King (2009 Digital Remaster)
5 Knockin' On Joe (2009 Digital Remaster)
6 Wanted Man (2009 Digital Remaster)
7 Blind Lemon Jefferson (2009 Digital Remaster)