{"id":19311,"date":"2016-01-22T08:05:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=19311"},"modified":"2016-01-21T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T02:25:08","slug":"tupelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2016\/01\/22\/tupelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Music: Tupelo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>We move on to “Tupelo” off the second Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, The Firstborn Is Dead<\/a><\/em>. It’s quite a good album. It’s even kind of a blues album, including a very odd song called, “Blind Lemon Jefferson,” but it’s not really a song I quite get, so we are going to skip it. But the whole thing sounds quite a lot like Tom Waits. This may explain why I have such a strangely ambivalent opinion of Cave. I love his music yet I don’t get that excited about it. It probably doesn’t help that I really have to work at understanding the lyrics.<\/p>\n

The perfect example of this album is Train Long-Suffering<\/a>. It’s got a real old folk feel to it. But as usual, with that distinct Nick Cave sound. That’s the thing about him. He’s so him. But as is often the case, I find myself gravitating toward the work that Cave himself didn’t write.<\/p>\n

“Tupelo” is a song by Barry Adamson and Mick Harvey. Nick Cave wrote the lyrics, but they don’t much matter. It just sounds so damned cool. Tupelo:<\/p>\n