Conway Savage
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Conway Savage (born 27 July 1960) is an Australian rock musician best known as pianist/organist/backing vocalist for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. He joined the group in 1990 for their Good Son tour of that year.
Savage has now been a key member of the Bad Seeds for over 15 years featuring on such celebrated albums as Henry's Dream, Let Love In, Murder Ballads, The Boatman's Call, No More Shall We Part and Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. Due to the overall minimal piano parts onthe band's 14th release, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Conway was imple featured on backing vocals and hand claps. It is unknown if he will be accompanying the band on their tour for the album.
He began playing piano in his early teens in the dining room of one of the pubs his parents owned in country Victoria. In the 1980s he played in the Melbourne-based country-rock band Dust On The Bible, with his sister-in-law Jane (wife of rock cabaret performer/builder Frank Savage) as lead vocalist, and in the rock band The Feral Dinosaurs.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he also guested on numerous albums and singles for various leading Australian musicians, including Kim Salmon, Dave Graney, Robert Forster, Spencer P. Jones, and David McComb.
Savage has also produced his own critically acclaimed solo material. In 1993 he released a self-titled mini-album. In 1998 he linked up with singer/songwriter Suzie Higgie for the collaborative album, Soon Will Be Tomorrow.
In 2000 Conway Savage released his debut full-length album Nothing Broken on his own label Beheaded Communications, featuring fellow Bad Seeds Mick Harvey, Martyn P. Casey, together with Charlie Owen. In 2004, Conway Savage's third solo release Wrong Man's Hands, was recorded in Australia on an 8-track in a room above the Union Club Hotel, Fitzroy, with members of Melbourne band The Stream, Amanda Fox and Robert Tickner. Conway Savage's most recent release was 2005's Rare Songs & Performances 1989-2004, which traced his various studio and live material recorded in Australia and Europe. Guest musicians include Mick Harvey, Martyn P Casey, Jim White, Spencer P Jones, Amanda Fox and Robert Tickner.
[edit] Solo discography
- 1993 Conway Savage (mini-album)
- 1998 Soon Will Be Tomorrow (with Suzie Higgie)
- 2000 Nothing Broken
- 2004 Wrong Man's Hands
- 2005 Rare Songs & Performances 1989-2004
- 2007 Quickie For Ducky (with Amanda Fox & Robert Tickner)
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