What the World Needs Now Is Love (album) What the World Needs Now Is Love (album) What the World Needs Now Is Love is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Wynonna Judd, released in 2003 as her first album for Curb / Asylum Records. It produced four chart singles; the first of these, which was the title track, reached #14 on the "Billboard" country charts. It was followed by "Heaven Help Me" at #37 and "Flies on the Butter" (a duet with her mother and one half of The Judds, Naomi Judd) at #33. The fourth and final single, a cover of Foreigner's "I Want
The Folk Singer in 1970, the song reached a wider audience from these versions. "The Folk Singer" was recorded by Australian post-punk group Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 1985, with a slightly altered lyric, under the title "The Singer." First released as a single in June 1986, the song later appeared on the band's third studio album, "Kicking Against the Pricks", which was composed entirely of cover versions. "The Singer" was performed live on all of the band's following tour dates throughout 1986—1989 and on a number of other occasions up until 2005. The Folk Singer "The Folk Singer" is a