Red Cotton: Difference between revisions
(update design, add quote) |
(+2024 last known performance) |
||
(11 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown) | |||
Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
{{song lyrics | {{song lyrics | ||
|lyrics = | |lyrics = {{Red Cotton}} | ||
}} | }} | ||
Line 11: | Line 11: | ||
|writer = [[Elvis Costello]] | |writer = [[Elvis Costello]] | ||
|performer = [[Elvis Costello]] | |performer = [[Elvis Costello]] | ||
|musicians = | |musicians = [[Elvis Costello]] - vocal, Gibson J-50 acoustic guitar<br>[[Dennis Crouch]] - double bass<br>[[Stuart Duncan]] - banjo, fiddle<br>[[Jeff Taylor]] - accordion<br>[[Mike Compton]] - mandolin<br>[[Jim Lauderdale]] - harmony vocal | ||
|producer = [[T Bone Burnett]] | |producer = [[T Bone Burnett]] | ||
|record_info = March 31-April 2, 2008, Sound Emporium Studio, Nashville | |record_info = March 31-April 2, 2008, Sound Emporium Studio, Nashville | ||
Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
|albums = [[Secret, Profane & Sugarcane]], 2009 | |albums = [[Secret, Profane & Sugarcane]], 2009 | ||
|singles = | |singles = | ||
|collections = | |collections = [[Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album]], 2015 | ||
|soundtracks = | |soundtracks = | ||
|various_artists = | |various_artists = | ||
Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
|background = Written for Elvis' unfinished chamber opera [[The Secret Songs]]. | |background = Written for Elvis' unfinished chamber opera [[The Secret Songs]]. | ||
|first = [[Concert 2005-10-08 Copenhagen|October 8, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark]] | |first = [[Concert 2005-10-08 Copenhagen|October 8, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark]] | ||
|last = | |last = {{2024}} | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{song quote | {{song quote | ||
| quote = | | quote = 'Red Cotton' imagines [P.T. Barnum] reading an Abolitionist pamphlet while sewing red-dyed scraps of Lind's garment, even as he confronts the burden of guilt attached to its very threads. | ||
| source = [http://elviscostello.com/news/journal.php?uid=60 elviscostello.com], March 23, 2009. | | source = [http://elviscostello.com/news/journal.php?uid=60 elviscostello.com], March 23, 2009. | ||
}} | }} | ||
Line 37: | Line 37: | ||
{{thumbs header}} | {{thumbs header}} | ||
{{thumb: Secret, Profane & Sugarcane}} | {{thumb: Secret, Profane & Sugarcane}} | ||
---- | |||
{{thumb: Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album}} | |||
|} | |} | ||
{{song covers | {{song covers | ||
|covers = | |covers = {{:Red Cotton covers}} | ||
}} | }} | ||
==Internal | ==Internal links== | ||
*[[Template:Red Cotton|Lyrics]] {{-}} [[Red Cotton covers|Covers]] | |||
[[Category:2009]] | [[Category:2009]] |
Latest revision as of 03:49, 11 January 2024
I'm cutting up her pure white dress |
Background:
“'Red Cotton' imagines [P.T. Barnum] reading an Abolitionist pamphlet while sewing red-dyed scraps of Lind's garment, even as he confronts the burden of guilt attached to its very threads.” — elviscostello.com, March 23, 2009.
|
|