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It starts with a touch of class. Before Elvis Costello and [[Rosanne Cash]] walk onstage at the [[BAM Howard Gilman Opera House]] last night, the room goes dark and a screen above the stage lights up with a video of the late, great [[Allen Toussaint]] on the piano and Costello singing. “[[The Greatest Love]]” from “[[The River In Reverse]]”. It won’t be the only New Orleans’ tang to tonight’s event. | It starts with a touch of class. Before Elvis Costello and [[Rosanne Cash]] walk onstage at the [[BAM Howard Gilman Opera House]] last night, the room goes dark and a screen above the stage lights up with a video of the late, great [[Allen Toussaint]] on the piano and Costello singing. “[[The Greatest Love]]” from “[[The River In Reverse]]”. It won’t be the only New Orleans’ tang to tonight’s event. | ||
Costello is here to talk to Cash about his new book [[Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink|Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink]]. There’s much conversation about fathers, as you’d expect, but Cash proves herself to be a thorough interviewer when she goes elsewhere on the emotional range too. There are times when musicians talking to musicians can fall asunder under peer pressure, but Cash has done her research and the questions probe and prod and poke Costello into going a little deeper than you might expect from two | Costello is here to talk to Cash about his new book [[Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink|Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink]]. There’s much conversation about fathers, as you’d expect, but Cash proves herself to be a thorough interviewer when she goes elsewhere on the emotional range too. There are times when musicians talking to musicians can fall asunder under peer pressure, but Cash has done her research and the questions probe and prod and poke Costello into going a little deeper than you might expect from two musicians who know the rounds and rambles of each other at this stage. | ||
Costello knows the value of a good anecdote, be it talking about his first encounter with Touissant in New Orleans or a very funny reading from the book of how the Desmond Dekker “Israelites” karaoke show in a London venue | Costello knows the value of a good anecdote, be it talking about his first encounter with Touissant in New Orleans or a very funny reading from the book of how the Desmond Dekker “Israelites” karaoke show in a London venue upstaging a young Costello and his band. He also talks about [[Paul McCartney|Paul MacCartney]] and the shiver about a Beatle working with a Beatles’ fan. | ||
But the stories about [[Ross MacManus]] are what you really come away with it from this evening. When I interviewed Costello in [[Irish Times, September 14, 2013|2013]] about “''Wake Up Ghost''”, his collaboration with [[The Roots]], he talked then about a book prompted by conversations with his father. It’s clear there was much affection in the relationship – Costello has great comments on his father’s rig-out for going to school meetings – but it’s also obvious that there was an element of healthy competition in the mix too. | But the stories about [[Ross MacManus]] are what you really come away with it from this evening. When I interviewed Costello in [[Irish Times, September 14, 2013|2013]] about “''Wake Up Ghost''”, his collaboration with [[The Roots]], he talked then about a book prompted by conversations with his father. It’s clear there was much affection in the relationship – Costello has great comments on his father’s rig-out for going to school meetings – but it’s also obvious that there was an element of healthy competition in the mix too. |
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