hurt :: more amazing covers

Hi there,

Well, in our little house we’ve all gone crazy for the ship song cover. So, you know how it goes when you start you tube-ing. I started by showing the junior squad live videos of Nick Cave, trying [in vain] to explain to 10, 8,and 5 year olds what a live Nick Cave concert was like. Well, they thought I was  nuts. More horrified were they that he was smoking on stage [god forbid, i didn't have the heart to tell them about what else he got up to].

Anyway, then we found Johnny Cash’s cover of the Mercy Seat. That gravelly, old mans voice is just perfect. I remember when he made the cover, reading an interview with Nick Cave. Apparrently Mr. Cash became quite ill as he was about to do the cover, and Nick Cave is sending him ‘Get Well Soon’ cards, praying that he wouldn’t die before he made the song. Could there be anyone cooler to cover your song?

And then we found Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt. The lament of an old man, deep in regret with shreds of love and hope or perhaps redemption. I’m clearly late to the Johnny Cash party, but could there be a better epitaph for the man in black?

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