No explanation necessary. This is just great stuff.
As it turns out, an explanation is necessary.
In response to this post, I received the following anonymous response:
"This song is
written by Nick Cave, with music by him
and Mick Harvey. It was released by
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on the 1988 album Tender Prey. Johnny Cash covered
Cave's song on his album American III: Solitary Man, released in 2000. The
confusion arises because a YouTube user named Fabiano Lapola credited the words
to Bukowski, the music to Johnny Cash, and uploaded a slideshow of Bukowski
photographs in 2007. I have no idea why he did that."
As for my part in perpetrating this dastardly hoax, I searched
several times for the actual text of the poem using Bukowski's name and thought
it curious when I could not find it. Rather
than sniff a trickster, I ascribed it to the sheer volume of writing that Buk produced
and the possibility, however remote, that not everything is on the internet.
This post has been edited and credited appropriately and another devoted
exclusively to the poet forthcoming.
Nick Cave's version of his own, "Mercy Seat" appears below and let it be said, Nick Cave is a bad man and natural child of the Bukowski Tree.
Johnny Cash sings Nick Cave's Mercy Seat
2 comments:
This song is written by Nick Cave, with music by him and Mick Harvey. It was released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on the 1988 album Tender Prey.
Johnny Cash covered Cave's song on his album American III: Solitary Man, released in 2000.
The confusion arises because a YouTube user named Fabiano Lapola credited the words to Bukowski, the music to Johnny Cash, and uploaded a slideshow of Bukowski photographs in 2007. I have no idea why he did that.
For the original version search Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "The Mercy Seat" on YouTube.
Thank you for clarifying this. I have searched several times for the actual text of the poem using Bukowski's name and thought it curious when I could not find it. Rather than sniff a trickster, I ascribed it to the sheer volume of writing that he produced and the likelihood that not everything is on the internet. This post will be edited and credited appropriately and another devoted exclusively to the poet forthcoming. (Nice intro to Nick Cave for me, though). Thanks again for the heads up.
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