Arena, 1995-06-01 (Summer issue)


Interviewer (Mark Edwards):
The songs you've written for other people to cover - from Johnny Cash to
Wendy James. Are we ever going to hear your versions of those?

EC:
Funny you should say that. You're not related to Mystic Meg are you? The
next record I'm going to make is exactly the opposite of "Kojak Variety". I
realised that if I don't address the volume of songs I've written for other
people fairly soon, it'll become an unwieldy repertoire. It's already
something like 40 songs.
The shows I did with Bob Dylan recently were the beginning of the process.
I was doing 12 songs a night. We're (Elvis & the Attractions) going to play
them during a week of shows at the Beacon Theatre in New York, which we're
going to record. If we feel we can improve upon them in the studio , we
will, but we might get lucky and get something in the heat of the 
moment......