Seattle Times, August 21, 2009: Difference between revisions
(,+US publications by state index) |
(formatting) |
||
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) | |||
Line 13: | Line 13: | ||
{{Bibliography text}} | {{Bibliography text}} | ||
"I've crossed the United States a number of times over the last 30 years," wrote Elvis Costello in production notes accompanying the June release of his new album, | "I've crossed the United States a number of times over the last 30 years," wrote Elvis Costello in production notes accompanying the June release of his new album, ''Secret, Profane & Sugarcane''. Costello appears at the Chateau Ste. Michelle Sunday. | ||
"There are towns I look forward to visiting again," he says. "I'm not going to say their names." | "There are towns I look forward to visiting again," he says. "I'm not going to say their names." | ||
Line 25: | Line 25: | ||
Costello's ambitions have led him to collaborate with Burt Bacharach, Paul McCartney, George Jones, jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and pianist Marian McPartland. Detractors express weariness at his genre-hopping, but Costello has always had a way of tying up loose ends in his career. | Costello's ambitions have led him to collaborate with Burt Bacharach, Paul McCartney, George Jones, jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and pianist Marian McPartland. Detractors express weariness at his genre-hopping, but Costello has always had a way of tying up loose ends in his career. | ||
''Secret, Profane & Sugarcane'' and Costello's current tour are perfect examples. The CD largely consists of songs repurposed from earlier projects, this time through the filter of a rootsy, folk-country sound that sometimes evokes a revival meeting, at other times a small-town dance. | |||
Reviews from other cities suggest Costello's show at the Chateau will sound much the same. Traveling with an all-acoustic sextet of Nashville session musicians billed as the Sugarcanes, Costello is performing most of the songs on ''Secret''. He's also reaching deep into older material, including "[[Alison]]" (from 1977's ''My Aim is True'') and "[[Brilliant Mistake]]" (from ''King of America'', a 1986, all-acoustic album produced, as with ''Secret'', by T-Bone Burnett). | Reviews from other cities suggest Costello's show at the Chateau will sound much the same. Traveling with an all-acoustic sextet of Nashville session musicians billed as the Sugarcanes, Costello is performing most of the songs on ''Secret''. He's also reaching deep into older material, including "[[Alison]]" (from 1977's ''My Aim is True'') and "[[Brilliant Mistake]]" (from ''King of America'', a 1986, all-acoustic album produced, as with ''Secret'', by T-Bone Burnett). | ||
Line 61: | Line 61: | ||
'''Seattle Times, August 21, 2009 | '''Seattle Times, August 21, 2009 | ||
---- | ---- | ||
[[Tom Keogh]] | [[Tom Keogh]] profiles Elvis Costello ahead of his concert with [[The Sugarcanes]], Sunday, [[Concert 2009-08-23 Woodinville|August 23, 2009]], Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville, Washington. | ||
{{Bibliography no images}} | {{Bibliography no images}} | ||
Line 78: | Line 78: | ||
[[Category:Seattle Times| Seattle Times 2009-08-21]] | [[Category:Seattle Times| Seattle Times 2009-08-21]] | ||
[[Category:Newspaper articles]] | [[Category:Newspaper articles]] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:57, 22 August 2020
|