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The Bad Seeds’ Jim Sclavunos shares charity Bob Dylan cover: “It’s a tribute to a fan”

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Jim Sclavunos, the drummer from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, has shared a solo cover of Bob Dylan‘s ‘Lay Down Your Weary Tune’ with The National‘s Scott Devendorf.

Check out the charity single below, along with our interview with the musician.The Bad Seeds drummer’s second solo release, following from last year’s ‘Holiday Song’ to benefit the Music Venue Trust, sees Sclavunos team up with Devendorf on bass and Dave Sherman (Valerie June, Nicole Atkins) on piano – with all money raised from the BandCamp sales going to the DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal and Ellis Park Wildlife Sanctuary.

Fans have until May 13 to download the song, but it will be deleted and no longer be available.The choice of track came about after the drummer heard about the terminal illness of dedicated Bad Seeds fan Kathy McCoy, who has since passed away.“I first met Kathy with The Bad Seeds,” Sclavunos told NME. “Nick used to go wondering out into the crowd at shows and on this one occasion he dropped his watch.

Kathy retrieved it. She was a Facebook follower and she reached out to me to get it back to Nick. That was a nice gesture from a fan – she didn’t pocket it!”He continued: “Some of our fans go to multiple gigs, and she showed up at a few, and she was on stage at one point.

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