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'''In Cary, Elvis Costello will make disparate ideas work in harmony. Again. | '''In Cary, Elvis Costello will make disparate ideas work in harmony. Again. | ||
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Elvis Costello recorded his new album in Nashville with producer T | Elvis Costello recorded his new album in Nashville with producer T{{nb}}Bone Burnett, mastermind behind the ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' soundtrack. Two of the album's songs were originally written for Johnny Cash, and Costello co-wrote another with Loretta Lynn. | ||
At the same time, a clutch of other songs on ''Secret, Profane & Sugarcane'' (Hear Music) were commissioned by the Royal Danish Opera about 19th century children's author Hans Christian Andersen and his obsession with Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. Throw in the album's closing track, a cover of a 1950s-vintage Bing Crosby song, and you have two quite different and even clashing sets of expectations. | At the same time, a clutch of other songs on ''Secret, Profane & Sugarcane'' (Hear Music) were commissioned by the Royal Danish Opera about 19th century children's author Hans Christian Andersen and his obsession with Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. Throw in the album's closing track, a cover of a 1950s-vintage Bing Crosby song, and you have two quite different and even clashing sets of expectations. | ||
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Well, if you have in your head an idea what opera music sounds like, maybe. But it hasn't changed so much. It's just folk music. Andersen came out of abject poverty, and Jenny Lind came from a modest background. My version was about Andersen being in love with this woman who goes to America to make her fame and fortune with P.T. Barnum in the 1850s, and you can imagine the actual musical landscape of that time suggesting something that is not exclusive to what one might think of as "opera" — a woman with a viking helmet and a big dress. | Well, if you have in your head an idea what opera music sounds like, maybe. But it hasn't changed so much. It's just folk music. Andersen came out of abject poverty, and Jenny Lind came from a modest background. My version was about Andersen being in love with this woman who goes to America to make her fame and fortune with P.T. Barnum in the 1850s, and you can imagine the actual musical landscape of that time suggesting something that is not exclusive to what one might think of as "opera" — a woman with a viking helmet and a big dress. | ||
So I had the opportunity to do this acoustic album with T | So I had the opportunity to do this acoustic album with T{{nb}}Bone. And as it developed, I found a lot of connections. "Hidden Shame" and the song I co-wrote with Loretta Lynn ["I Felt The Chill Before The Winter Came"] had a sense of foreboding that didn't seem so distant from "She Handed Me A Mirror," one of the songs about Andersen. "Red Cotton" is a serious, considered argument for the abolition of slavery, and it made sense in this context. | ||
''What was it like doing your recent ''30 Rock'' cameo, as part of the all-star band performing the quasi-anthem "Kidney Now"? | ''What was it like doing your recent ''30 Rock'' cameo, as part of the all-star band performing the quasi-anthem "Kidney Now"? | ||
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'''Who:''' Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes<br> | '''Who:''' Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes<br> | ||
'''When:''' 7:30 p.m. Sunday<br> | '''When:''' 7:30 p.m. Sunday<br> | ||
'''Where:''' Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park, 8003 Regency Parkway, Cary<br> | '''Where:''' Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park, 8003 Regency Parkway, Cary<br> | ||
'''Tickets:''' $39.50-$59.50 at Ticketmaster outlets or box office | |||
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