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<center><h3> | <center><h3> Secret, Profane & Sugarcane </h3></center> | ||
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Elvis Costello albums seem to arrive with increasing frequency these days, their diversity appearing more like compensation for their patchiness. | Elvis Costello albums seem to arrive with increasing frequency these days, their diversity appearing more like compensation for their patchiness. | ||
If you didn't like him singing with a string quartet, maybe you'd care for him in a jazz suite? No? How about collaborations with Burt Bacharach? Allen Toussaint? Anne Sophie von Otter? Or, as here, hooking up with T | If you didn't like him singing with a string quartet, maybe you'd care for him in a jazz suite? No? How about collaborations with Burt Bacharach? Allen Toussaint? Anne Sophie von Otter? Or, as here, hooking up with T{{nb}}Bone Burnette for some of those rootsy string-band settings that proved popular for Plant & Krauss? | ||
Though far from the most daunting prospect in his sprawling catalogue, this proves no better in practice, partly because Costello's voice has a mean-spirited tone devoid of the siren lure of Plant & Krauss's harmonies, and it's a rag-bag of material that simply doesn't hang together. There's a bluegrass cover of "Complicated Shadows," from 1996's ''All This Useless Beauty''; a fast string-band shuffle of "Hidden Shame," written for Johnny Cash; several tedious, self-pitying romantic country pastiches, one ("I Felt The Chill") co-written with Loretta Lynn; and four tracks written for an abortive opera project about Hans Christian Andersen's love affair with singer Jenny Lind. But it's a shoddy set of barrel-scrapings overall, lacking both focus and impetus. | |||
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'''Download this: "Red Cotton," "The Crooked Line" | '''Download this: "Red Cotton," "The Crooked Line" | ||
{{tags}} [[Secret, Profane & Sugarcane]] {{-}} [[T{{nb}}Bone Burnett]] {{-}} [[Loretta Lynn]] {{-}} [[I Felt The Chill Before The Winter Came]] {{-}} [[Complicated Shadows]] {{-}} [[Hidden Shame]] {{-}} [[Johnny Cash]] {{-}} [[Red Cotton]] {{-}} [[The Crooked Line]] {{-}} [[The Secret Songs]] {{-}} [[Hans Christian Andersen]] {{-}} [[Jenny Lind]] {{-}} [[All This Useless Beauty]] {{-}} [[Anne Sofie von Otter]] {{-}} [[Burt Bacharach]] {{-}} [[Allen Toussaint]] {{-}} [[Robert Plant]] {{-}} [[Alison Krauss]] | |||
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