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Elvis Costello
Declan MacManus pumps it up for his motley crew, the Boss and a little known act by the name of Coldplay
Esquire
- Band Of The Year
The Imposters
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I'm not in the band, so I'm not just being boastful. We've been on the road since last September and they always know what to do with any song I throw at them. We've had terrific company: David Hidalgo from Los Lobos and Howlin' Wolf gutarist, Hubert Sumlin, both sat in on guitar and we're doing a number of dates with Emmylou Harris as guest vocalist — it doesn't get any better than singing harmony with Emmy.
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"The Knowing" by Lucinda Williams
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One of six new songs she played at a concert I attended, all of which were superb. The most fun was "Jailhouse Tears," which I learned while she was getting ready and we sang together as the final song. Now, that is spontaneous.
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For assembling Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan: "Cowboy" Jack Clement's Home Movies, a documentary about the maverick producer Jack Clement. Very funny and poignant. I'd also mention Peter Guralnick. I'm only a couple of chapters into Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, the long awaited biography but I can't wait to finish it and don't want it to end at the same time.
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I did run into an excellent singer and songwriter in Norway called Thomas Dybdahl, whose album One Day You'll Dance for Me in New York City I'd recommend. I really dig The Zutons, and I also like the Coldplay song, "Fix You".
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She cut the great "Let Me Down Easy" way back, and now Joe Henry — who produced Solomon Burke's Don't Give Up On Me — has done a great new record with her I've Got My Own Hell To Raise.
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More tragi-comic really — turning up at a circus in Konstanz, Germany and finding that we were sharing the bill with a puppet theatre was rather Spinal Tap.
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Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey
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A dead heat with my wife, Diana [Krall]'s swinging show in Shanghai. Singing about being a son and a father isn't easy rock 'n' roll territory, but Bruce really drew people in.
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Lifetime Achievement
Joe Bussard
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Check out the DVD, Desperate Man Blues. He's an eccentric record collector who's preserved all sorts of magcal corners of music — although be says things Ike, ‘There are no good jazz records made after 1927".
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Invent A Category You Would Have Won Hands Down
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Person Least Likely to Cut a Christina Aguilera Song. (Actually, I have..)
Elvis's new album The Delivery Man (Mercury) and DVD The Right Spectacle (Demon Vision) are both out now.
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Esquire (UK), October 2005
Esquire interviews Elvis Costello.
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Cover, contents and page scan.
Photo.
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