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It’s a rare thing to see an artist’s worldview change overnight. For decades, Nick Cave has been goth rock’s hyperliterate poet laureate, famous for his intricately molded stories about rogues and “badlanders” all in the throes of anguish. (He has also always written beautiful love songs.) But where writing about …

Nick Cave paid tribute to the late Daniel Johnston during his Conversations With Nick Cave tour, which features the artist candidly fielding questions from the audience alongside him performing songs solo on piano. As Pitchfork points out, Cave paid homage to Johnston during his recent New York and Washington, D.C., …