Here's a link to an interview with the angry young man on NPR:
Interview on NPR
Here's a link to an interview with the angry young man on NPR:
Interview on NPR
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I too pine for the good ol' days of an Armed Forces or a Get Happy recording with The Attractions. Elvis sure has gone through a lot a phases in his long career and some I liked and others not so much.
My jury is kind of out on this one. I need to hear the recording a bit more, but what I've heard so far didn't thrill me too much. I like the Hank Williams tune he did on the recording with Charlie Haden.
Anyone here been watching his T.V. interview show called "Spectacle"? I less than thrilled by that one as well. Seems like he sort of answers his own questions.
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Good review of said show...
I have been a fan of Elvis Costello since I saw him on his first American tour and he issued "My Aim is True."
This is a really fine album (oops, I mean CD!). However, despite my appreciation for Jerry Douglas, I wish Elvis had mixed Mike Compton further up, Jerry Douglas a bit further back, and had given Mike a couple of solo breaks. Jerry is featured and Mike is only given the task of providing mandolin "color."
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Elvis Costello is on the tonight show along with a mandolin player.
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Well, Mike was there, as promised, but he didn't get to do much. Most of the fill work and the lead were provided by Stuart Duncan on fiddle. Jim Lauderdale played guitar and sang, as he had when EC was on Letterman June 4th - that appearance also featured some nice slide work on a National steel guitar instead of fiddle. Anyway, nice to see such a fine mandolin on TV, a rare occurrence.
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"Secret, Profane & Sugarcane," Elvis Costello's most recent release, includes the following artists:
(FYI)
* Elvis Costello - vocals, acoustic guitar
* Dennis Crouch - double bass
* Stuart Duncan - fiddle
* Jerry Douglas - dobro
* Jeff Taylor - accordion
* Mike Compton - mandolin
* Jim Lauderdale - harmony & background vocals
* T Bone Burnett - electric guitar
* Emylou Harris - harmony vocal
My history with Elvis Costello goes back to "The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes" and "Alison" and other songs from those years. Lately, (the last 15 years or so), he's gone in a TON of different directions, some that I've liked, and some that I haven't cared for.
The songs on the afore mentioned latest CD are full of bizzare key changes, (not in all the songs, but in a number of them) and the tempo of the lyrics in some of the songs is confusing. Typical Elvis C. adaptations, IMHO.
I picked up a CD not long ago, of a famous Jazz Bass player, who as a child, had done a lot of family "old country" music, (I'll see if I can find his CD today, for the sake of specificity, should someone want to know who it was), who was re-visiting the music again, at the behest of friends. He was joined by his lovely daughters on the CD, and other musicians, including Elvis C.. I remember hearing E.C.'s contribution to it, and not liking it. There's just something "Leon Redbone" about E.C. that doesn't (IMHO) lend itself to Bluegrass well.
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I've come to the realization that EC will always just sound like EC, no matter WHAT genre of music he may be playing. Be that good or bad. I really like him, but sometimes he gets a real "square peg/round hole" thing going.
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Well, I think his voice spoils most things he does. I agree wholeheartedly that Alison, etc. were really beautiful but a lot of some really lovely songs of his are ruined because ...he happens to be singing them.
Picked up this album the other day and I'm really enjoying it..
The liner notes credit Lou Reed for "Femme Fatale" - am I missing something? Is there a hidden track somewhere that my CD player is skipping? Or does he reference a line or two in a song that I missed?
I downloaded it from iTunes and Femme Fatale is listed as a bonus track. Maybe it's a hidden track at the end of the CD? Maybe it's only available on the downloads?
Ya know, I listened to the samples and didn't really care for it. The local FYE music store had a sale the other weekend and all cds were $9.99, so I broke down and bought it. I mean, it has Mike Compton on it afterall. After listening to the whole recording, it's much better than I thought. My only complaint is that they could have showcased the mandolin a little more. Still a cool project!
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It grows on you. "I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came" (that he wrote with Loretta Lynn) is about as fine a song that's ever been written IMHO and the recording captures a stellar performance of it.
I look forward to seeing them in Vancouver.
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