Nick Cave/ David Rawlings and Gillian Welch joins host Raina Douris

World Cafe is playing back some favorite interviews of 2024, including Nick Cave. His album Wild God bursts with joy – a contrast to Cave’s last two albums which saw him grappling with the recent death of his son. Nick Cave discusses religion, death, life – and how devastation and grief helped him accept the possibility of a joyful relationship with the world. Plus in the second hour of World Cafe, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Their latest album Woodland is named after the pair’s Nashville studio, which was destroyed by the 2020 tornados. They talk about how rebuilding process resulted in this new set of songs, the first original material from them in many years.

Listen to the session here.

Today’s Playlist
Father John Misty “Goodbye Mr. Blue” Chloe and the Next 21st Century
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Wild God” Wild God
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Spinning Song” Ghosteen
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Song of the Lake” Wild God
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Frogs” Wild God
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Joy” Wild God
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Push the Sky Away” WC Recording
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Conversion” Wild God
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)” Wild God
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “As the Waters Cover the Sea” Wild god

Hour Two
Joan Baez “Elvis Presley Blues” Dark Chords On A Big Guitar
David Rawlings and Gillian Welch “Empty Trainload of Sky” Recorded Live for World Cafe
David Rawlings and Gillian Welch “Hashtag” Recorded Live for World Cafe
David Rawlings “Come On Over My House” WC Recording
David Rawlings and Gillian Welch “Lawman” Recorded Live for World Cafe
David Rawlings and Gillian Welch “Howdy Howdy” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Gillian Welch “Look At Miss Ohio” Soul Journey
David Rawlings and Gillian Welch “What We Had” Recorded Live for World Cafe