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Wendy James does very little with Elvis Costello's writing
Rick Teverbaugh
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What happens when you put one of modern rock's most celebrated writers together with one of that genre's least appreciated vocalists?
Very little if Wendy James' Now Ain't The Time For Your Tears on Geffen Records is the answer to that query.
James' band, Transvision Vamp, has garnered very little critical acclaim or financial reward on this side of the Atlantic, and teaming her with a writing talent like Elvis Costello does very little except to bring up the painful reminder of how long it's been since the bespectacled one has penned anything either he or anyone else could turn into a memorable song.
The music that drove James into a solo venture came from people like Costello, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and the Waterboys. To that end she has hired guitarist Neil Taylor. who has worked with both Dylan and Morrison and drummer Pete Thomas, who was a member of Costello's Attractions.
But her effort falls far short of even the most mediocre of any of the aforementioned acts.
James does little to add anything to Costello's lyrics about the danger of the superegomaniac mentality. But then it doesn't sound like Costello blessed her with any of his A material either.
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