In his book And the Ass Saw the Angel, Crow Jane is the nickname of the protagonist Euchrid's mother, who would wait drunkenly for her dead husband to come home-- certainly a more passive character of the same name. It really makes me wonder...
If I were to interview Nick Cave, these are the kinds of things I would ask him about.
@feel me loud No one knows who wrote the original folk/blues standard, Crow Jane, that Nick's song is based on, but it has it's origins in the 1920s blues scene in Virginia and South Carolina. It was first recorded in 1927 by blues guitarist Julius Daniels, and often performed by Mississippi bluesman Skip James in the '20s and '30s, was a regular song in his repertoire. James didn't record his version of Crow Jane until 1964 when his '30s blues recordings were discovered by '60s musicians who helped revive James' career. James was a big misogynist, both...
@feel me loud No one knows who wrote the original folk/blues standard, Crow Jane, that Nick's song is based on, but it has it's origins in the 1920s blues scene in Virginia and South Carolina. It was first recorded in 1927 by blues guitarist Julius Daniels, and often performed by Mississippi bluesman Skip James in the '20s and '30s, was a regular song in his repertoire. James didn't record his version of Crow Jane until 1964 when his '30s blues recordings were discovered by '60s musicians who helped revive James' career. James was a big misogynist, both personally and in his song lyrics, so his version of Crow Jane is about a man who kills his partner because he feels she's "too prideful," has too much self-confidence, and then has the audacity to complain that he misses her after he's taken her life. I like Nick's version better, his decision to turn the song into a female empowerment murder ballad, his Crow Jane taking out the 20 coal miners who raped her, not letting them get away with it.
In his book And the Ass Saw the Angel, Crow Jane is the nickname of the protagonist Euchrid's mother, who would wait drunkenly for her dead husband to come home-- certainly a more passive character of the same name. It really makes me wonder... If I were to interview Nick Cave, these are the kinds of things I would ask him about.
@feel me loud No one knows who wrote the original folk/blues standard, Crow Jane, that Nick's song is based on, but it has it's origins in the 1920s blues scene in Virginia and South Carolina. It was first recorded in 1927 by blues guitarist Julius Daniels, and often performed by Mississippi bluesman Skip James in the '20s and '30s, was a regular song in his repertoire. James didn't record his version of Crow Jane until 1964 when his '30s blues recordings were discovered by '60s musicians who helped revive James' career. James was a big misogynist, both...
@feel me loud No one knows who wrote the original folk/blues standard, Crow Jane, that Nick's song is based on, but it has it's origins in the 1920s blues scene in Virginia and South Carolina. It was first recorded in 1927 by blues guitarist Julius Daniels, and often performed by Mississippi bluesman Skip James in the '20s and '30s, was a regular song in his repertoire. James didn't record his version of Crow Jane until 1964 when his '30s blues recordings were discovered by '60s musicians who helped revive James' career. James was a big misogynist, both personally and in his song lyrics, so his version of Crow Jane is about a man who kills his partner because he feels she's "too prideful," has too much self-confidence, and then has the audacity to complain that he misses her after he's taken her life. I like Nick's version better, his decision to turn the song into a female empowerment murder ballad, his Crow Jane taking out the 20 coal miners who raped her, not letting them get away with it.