NICK CAVE: ANTHOLOGY - PIANO@@ CHANT ET GUITARE

by Nick Cave

Since the late seventies, Nick Cave has continually reaffirmed his position as one of the greatest Australian songwriters, rock musicians and authors of all time. This terrific anthology represents some of his his best moments including his time with the Bad Seeds as well as solo collaborations.

This volume contains Piano, Vocal and Guitar arrangements of eighteen classic songs by Nick Cave, with full lyrics. Songs include As I Sat Sadly By Her Side, Do You Love Me?, Where the Wild Roses Grow and many more.

Genres: Music

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 2001

About the author

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and his fascination with American music and its roots. He has a reputation, which he disowns, for singing dark, brooding songs which some listeners regard as depressing. His music is characterised by intensity, high energy and a wide variety of influences. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove in England.

Cave released his first book King Ink, in 1988. It is a collection of lyrics and plays, including collaborations with American enfant terrible Lydia Lunch.

While he was based in West Berlin, Cave started working on what was to become his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). Significant crossover is evident between the themes in the book and the lyrics Cave wrote in the late stages of the Birthday Party and the early stage of his solo career. "Swampland", from Mutiny, in particular, uses the same linguistic stylings ('mah' for 'my', for instance) and some of the same themes (the narrator being haunted by the memory of a girl called Lucy, being hunted like an animal, approaching death and execution). A collectors' limited edition of the book appeared in 2007.

Cave wrote the foreword to a Canongate publication of the Gospel according to Mark, published in the UK in 1998. The American publication of the same book contains a foreword by a different author.