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<center><h3> Deep Emotional Reservoirs Amid the Fetid Summer Stew </h3></center> | <center><h3> Deep Emotional Reservoirs Amid the Fetid Summer Stew </h3></center> | ||
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It seems slightly ridiculous now, but Elvis Costello's 1981 ''[[Almost Blue]]'' came with a sticker warning: "This album contains country & Western music & may produce radical reaction in narrow minded people." An alt-country movement, Americana format, and ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' soundtrack later, the most radical reaction Costello's epic country-punk jamboree with [[Emmylou Harris]] and [[the Imposters]] induced was a certain amount of awe at the ass-kicking audacity of a 50-year-old rock star performing 33 songs over two and a half breakless | It seems slightly ridiculous now, but Elvis Costello's 1981 ''[[Almost Blue]]'' came with a sticker warning: "This album contains country & Western music & may produce radical reaction in narrow minded people." An alt-country movement, Americana format, and ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' soundtrack later, the most radical reaction Costello's epic country-punk jamboree with [[Emmylou Harris]] and [[the Imposters]] induced was a certain amount of awe at the ass-kicking audacity of a 50-year-old rock star performing 33 songs over two and a half breakless hours — particularly in last week's fetid summer stew, and while sporting a finely tailored dark two-piece suit. | ||
A handful of tunes in, Costello introduced former and longtime Bob Dylan guitarist [[Larry Campbell]], who joined the blazing Imposters for "Waiting for the End of the World" (a young-Elvis nod to Bob) and then stuck around for the rest of the show on mandolin, fiddle, and pedal steel guitar. Emmylou Harris's arrival, however, sparked a quantum leap in historical resonance. Both Costello's and Harris's voices are massive vibrato generators fueled by deep emotional reservoirs. The pair played out a vast domestic encyclopedia of hookups, put-downs, breakups, and mornings-after, originally written in tears by Johnny Cash ("I Still Miss Someone"), Harris's first duet partner Gram Parsons ("Sleepless Nights"), and George Jones ("One of These Days"); eventually, they landed on Costello's metaphorically baroque "Indoor Fireworks." Harris sang "Red Dirt Girl" and joined Costello in a bunch of Parsons tunes, and the hits just kept on coming. | A handful of tunes in, Costello introduced former and longtime Bob Dylan guitarist [[Larry Campbell]], who joined the blazing Imposters for "Waiting for the End of the World" (a young-Elvis nod to Bob) and then stuck around for the rest of the show on mandolin, fiddle, and pedal steel guitar. Emmylou Harris's arrival, however, sparked a quantum leap in historical resonance. Both Costello's and Harris's voices are massive vibrato generators fueled by deep emotional reservoirs. The pair played out a vast domestic encyclopedia of hookups, put-downs, breakups, and mornings-after, originally written in tears by Johnny Cash ("I Still Miss Someone"), Harris's first duet partner Gram Parsons ("Sleepless Nights"), and George Jones ("One of These Days"); eventually, they landed on Costello's metaphorically baroque "Indoor Fireworks." Harris sang "Red Dirt Girl" and joined Costello in a bunch of Parsons tunes, and the hits just kept on coming. | ||
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