Henry's Dream
by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Type: Album
- Released: 27 April 1992
- Label: Mute
- Country: Australia
- Length: 41:34
- Community rating: 3.96/5 from 13 ratings
Artists on this release: Conway Savage, Blixa Bargeld, Bruce Dukov, Barbra Porter, Thomas Wydler, Nick Cave, Dennis Karmazyn, Martyn P. Casey
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Produced by David Briggs, 'Henry's Dream' features a highly energetic, heavily acoustic-driven approach to Nick Cave's dark narrative songwriting. The Bad Seeds provide a driving, raw punk blues and folk-rock backing for his passionate, poetic tales of deeply somber tragedy and death.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, death, narrative, literary, biblical, male-vocals, storytelling, bluesy, loud
Tracklist
- Papa Won't Leave You, Henry (5:55)
- I Had a Dream, Joe (3:42)
- Straight to You (4:34)
- Brother, My Cup Is Empty (3:02)
- Christina the Astonishing (4:51)
- When I First Came to Town (5:21)
- John Finn's Wife (5:13)
- Loom of the Land (5:07)
- Jack the Ripper (3:45)
Credits
- Nick Cave - primary artist, backing vocals, co-producer, mixed by, vocals, written-by, organ, harmonica, piano
- David Blumberg - arranged by [strings]
- Mick Harvey - arranged by [strings], co-producer, mixed by, rhythm guitar, organ, drums, piano [extra], organ, vibraphone, percussion, organ, backing vocals
- Anton Corbijn - art direction, photography by
- Martyn P. Casey - bass
- Dennis Karmazyn - cello
- Area - design
- Thomas Wydler - drums, congas
- Chuck Johnson - engineer
- Dave Cook - engineer
- Tony Cohen - engineer, mixed by
- Brett Newman - engineer [assistant]
- Chris Kupper - engineer [assistant]
- Chris Thompson - engineer [assistant]
- Victor Van Vugt - engineer [assistant]
- Blixa Bargeld - guitar
- Conway Savage - piano, vocals [other], electric piano [fender rhodes]
- M - plated by
- David Briggs - producer, mixed by
- Barbra Porter - violin
- Bruce Dukov - violin