Henry's Dream by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Album cover for Henry's Dream - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1. Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
5:55
2. I Had a Dream, Joe
3:43
3. Straight to You
4:35
4. Brother, My Cup Is Empty
3:02
5. Christina the Astonishing
4:51
6. When I First Came to Town
5:22
7. John Finn's Wife
5:13
8. Loom of the Land
5:08
9. Jack the Ripper
3:46

Henry's Dream is the seventh album released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, in spring 1992. This album remains a big favourite amongst Bad Seeds fans, although Nick Cave himself was reportedly unhappy with the production by David Briggs. Briggs preferred a "live-in-the-studio" method he had used with Neil Young. This led to Cave and Mick Harvey re-mixing the album, and ultimately to the Live Seeds recordings, as Cave wanted the songs "done justice". It was the first album to feature long-standing members Martyn P. Casey (bass) and Conway Savage (piano, organ), both Australian. The latter is a singer-songwriter in his own right and has contributed distinctive backing vocals to a handful of Bad Seeds songs; here he and Cave deliver a rousing duet in the chorus of 'When I First Came To Town'. The album is considered by some to have a vague "concept", i.e. song narratives overlapping and/or sharing characters.