do we really need another bronxapostle recording with this one available doc??? or wait...do i hear an annoying rumbly sscscscsscscscsscs sound during JOSEPHINE vocals? eh, maybe the completist EC boot collector or a fan of the old analog ambient recordings i provide will dig mine also. i bet the guy sitting to my left last night might just like mine better...maybe E himself would like my work! DIRECT TO EAR!
Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
do we really need another bronxapostle recording with this one available doc??? or wait...do i hear an annoying rumbly sscscscsscscscsscs sound during JOSEPHINE vocals? eh, maybe the completist EC boot collector or a fan of the old analog ambient recordings i provide will dig mine also. i bet the guy sitting to my left last night might just like mine better...maybe E himself would like my work! DIRECT TO EAR!
Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
http://www.spinner.com/2010/11/02/elvis ... ner.com%29
Elvis Costello Previews 'National Ransom' at New York Radio Station
Nov 2nd 2010
by Kenneth Partridge
Seven strong and dressed in neo-homesteader gear, the band Elvis Costello brought Monday night to WNYC's Greene Space studio in New York City looked something like a posse.
Performing 'National Ransom,' the title track from an album due out the next day, Costello and the gang seemed ready to saddle the horses, load the rifles and ride two miles south from the public radio station to Wall Street, home of the villainous financiers the song takes to task.
"Around the time the killing stopped on Wall Street," Costello sang, expressing bemusement and rage as only he can, "you couldn't hold me, baby, with anything but contempt."
In one of the brief interview segments that, along with songs from 'National Ransom,' made up WNYC's hour-long live broadcast, host Leonard Lopate asked the legendary British rocker to what extent his new songs reflected the recent economic downturn.
"I think we're all a bit bewildered," Costello said, pointing a finger at the bankers he feels betrayed the public's trust. "Either they're liars or they're incompetent."
But Costello -- rock 'n' roll's erstwhile "angry young man" -- was in no mood to rant. He wants to be Mark Twain, not John Wayne, and he mostly talked music, explaining why his new group, an ensemble containing many of the same musicians he used on last year's 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane,' doesn't play straight-up bluegrass music, as some critics have suggested.
"If I could play bluegrass, I'd be a much better guitar player," Costello said, adding that his last two albums have incorporated various styles of music -- old-timey country, sure, but also rock 'n' roll.
The stomping, hollering likes of 'A Slow Drag With Josephine,' 'The Spell That You Cast' and 'National Ransom' underscored that point. The last of those, in particular, is a twanged-out, electric-fiddle-flecked reimagining of 'You Belong to Me,' from Costello's 1978 classic 'This Year's Model,' an album that, like his latest, he cut in just 11 days.
"I don't see why it necessarily takes longer than 11 days to make an album," Costello said.
Throughout the interview, Lopate referred to 'National Ransom' as a CD, and while it is being released in that format, Costello repeatedly teased the radio veteran, insisting he call it a "double LP," on account of the vinyl edition he prefers. Costello also had a habit of looking over Lopate's shoulder, reading his questions before he could ask them, and the two engaged in several rounds of playful sparring.
When Costello, responding to a question about his eclectic career, joked that his next project would involve puppetry, because he'd like to "try his hand at everything," Lopate shot back with a quip of his own.
"This is supposed to be Lopate and Costello," he said, "not Abbott and Costello."
http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/elvis/
Elvis Costello Lights up the Greene Space
November 2, 2010 - Posted by delarue
Last night, in his only New York performance this fall, Elvis Costello and his latest band the Sugarcanes treated a sold-out crowd at WNYC’s Greene Space in SoHo to a lush, often riveting mix of new material (the interview with host Leonard Lopate airs tomorrow, November 3). Costello’s politically charged new album National Ransom is just out, a tuneful, erudite, classy state-of-the-world address which would be the highlight of just about any other musician’s career. For Costello, it’s just another album (double vinyl album, to be precise, also available in the usual digital configurations). Looking wiry and wired, the greatest songwriter in the history of the English language bantered bitingly between songs with Lopate, who quickly sized up the situation and smartly backed off, letting his fellow chatshow host take over and entertain the crowd. At one point, Costello leaned over to look at Lopate’s cheat sheet: Lopate feigned umbrage, Costello graciously responding that his own guests always peek at the questions before they’re asked.
Given the new album’s vintage Americana flavor, Lopate remarked that the songs would be suited for a 78 RPM recording (which Costello has actually done recently). Costello replied that he’d be “utilizing all the available formats to the fullest extent possible…I’m trying to make as many records as possible before the whole thing shuts down.” He was quick to belittle the sonic limitations of an mp3: “They sound like hell – can I say ‘shite?””
Lopate reminded him that there was no going back since the cat was now out of the bag. “Direct to the ears is the best,” Costello grinned, playing to the crowd. He belittled his own guitar chops, as usual, but he played well, firing off a deft series of chromatics on his concluding solo out of a tense, potently evocative version of One Bell Rings, a chillingly allusive account of a torture victim inspired by the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. Lopate focused on the album’s social relevance: when prodded, Costello didn’t claim to have any answers, although he was quick to assert that, referring to the 2008 market crash, “In other times, if you could have a negative value as currency, they would have thought you were a witch!” The theme played to a murderous crescendo on a rousing version of the album’s title cut, accordionist Jeff Taylor imbuing it with a bit of a zydeco flavor as he would many of the other songs.
The rest of the show was equally gripping. They’d opened with a swinging version of a straight-up country song, I Lost You, following with Dr. Watson I Presume, which builds to an understatedly haunting, relentless, deathly countdown. Jimmie Standing in the Rain, a brooding chronicle of a 1930s performer who “picked the wrong time to do cowboy music – not that there’s a right time,” evoked the terse grimness of Richard Thompson’s Al Bowlly’s in Heaven. The upbeat R&B of The Spell That You Cast had the whole band doing a call-and-response with backing vocals; That’s Not the Part of Him You’re Leaving may be the best country song Costello’s ever written, a lushly successful mix of vintage countrypolitan and characteristically acerbic lyricism. They closed with a mysteriously lyrical spy story, All These Strangers. The album comes out today.
Elvis Costello Previews 'National Ransom' at New York Radio Station
Nov 2nd 2010
by Kenneth Partridge
Seven strong and dressed in neo-homesteader gear, the band Elvis Costello brought Monday night to WNYC's Greene Space studio in New York City looked something like a posse.
Performing 'National Ransom,' the title track from an album due out the next day, Costello and the gang seemed ready to saddle the horses, load the rifles and ride two miles south from the public radio station to Wall Street, home of the villainous financiers the song takes to task.
"Around the time the killing stopped on Wall Street," Costello sang, expressing bemusement and rage as only he can, "you couldn't hold me, baby, with anything but contempt."
In one of the brief interview segments that, along with songs from 'National Ransom,' made up WNYC's hour-long live broadcast, host Leonard Lopate asked the legendary British rocker to what extent his new songs reflected the recent economic downturn.
"I think we're all a bit bewildered," Costello said, pointing a finger at the bankers he feels betrayed the public's trust. "Either they're liars or they're incompetent."
But Costello -- rock 'n' roll's erstwhile "angry young man" -- was in no mood to rant. He wants to be Mark Twain, not John Wayne, and he mostly talked music, explaining why his new group, an ensemble containing many of the same musicians he used on last year's 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane,' doesn't play straight-up bluegrass music, as some critics have suggested.
"If I could play bluegrass, I'd be a much better guitar player," Costello said, adding that his last two albums have incorporated various styles of music -- old-timey country, sure, but also rock 'n' roll.
The stomping, hollering likes of 'A Slow Drag With Josephine,' 'The Spell That You Cast' and 'National Ransom' underscored that point. The last of those, in particular, is a twanged-out, electric-fiddle-flecked reimagining of 'You Belong to Me,' from Costello's 1978 classic 'This Year's Model,' an album that, like his latest, he cut in just 11 days.
"I don't see why it necessarily takes longer than 11 days to make an album," Costello said.
Throughout the interview, Lopate referred to 'National Ransom' as a CD, and while it is being released in that format, Costello repeatedly teased the radio veteran, insisting he call it a "double LP," on account of the vinyl edition he prefers. Costello also had a habit of looking over Lopate's shoulder, reading his questions before he could ask them, and the two engaged in several rounds of playful sparring.
When Costello, responding to a question about his eclectic career, joked that his next project would involve puppetry, because he'd like to "try his hand at everything," Lopate shot back with a quip of his own.
"This is supposed to be Lopate and Costello," he said, "not Abbott and Costello."
http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/elvis/
Elvis Costello Lights up the Greene Space
November 2, 2010 - Posted by delarue
Last night, in his only New York performance this fall, Elvis Costello and his latest band the Sugarcanes treated a sold-out crowd at WNYC’s Greene Space in SoHo to a lush, often riveting mix of new material (the interview with host Leonard Lopate airs tomorrow, November 3). Costello’s politically charged new album National Ransom is just out, a tuneful, erudite, classy state-of-the-world address which would be the highlight of just about any other musician’s career. For Costello, it’s just another album (double vinyl album, to be precise, also available in the usual digital configurations). Looking wiry and wired, the greatest songwriter in the history of the English language bantered bitingly between songs with Lopate, who quickly sized up the situation and smartly backed off, letting his fellow chatshow host take over and entertain the crowd. At one point, Costello leaned over to look at Lopate’s cheat sheet: Lopate feigned umbrage, Costello graciously responding that his own guests always peek at the questions before they’re asked.
Given the new album’s vintage Americana flavor, Lopate remarked that the songs would be suited for a 78 RPM recording (which Costello has actually done recently). Costello replied that he’d be “utilizing all the available formats to the fullest extent possible…I’m trying to make as many records as possible before the whole thing shuts down.” He was quick to belittle the sonic limitations of an mp3: “They sound like hell – can I say ‘shite?””
Lopate reminded him that there was no going back since the cat was now out of the bag. “Direct to the ears is the best,” Costello grinned, playing to the crowd. He belittled his own guitar chops, as usual, but he played well, firing off a deft series of chromatics on his concluding solo out of a tense, potently evocative version of One Bell Rings, a chillingly allusive account of a torture victim inspired by the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. Lopate focused on the album’s social relevance: when prodded, Costello didn’t claim to have any answers, although he was quick to assert that, referring to the 2008 market crash, “In other times, if you could have a negative value as currency, they would have thought you were a witch!” The theme played to a murderous crescendo on a rousing version of the album’s title cut, accordionist Jeff Taylor imbuing it with a bit of a zydeco flavor as he would many of the other songs.
The rest of the show was equally gripping. They’d opened with a swinging version of a straight-up country song, I Lost You, following with Dr. Watson I Presume, which builds to an understatedly haunting, relentless, deathly countdown. Jimmie Standing in the Rain, a brooding chronicle of a 1930s performer who “picked the wrong time to do cowboy music – not that there’s a right time,” evoked the terse grimness of Richard Thompson’s Al Bowlly’s in Heaven. The upbeat R&B of The Spell That You Cast had the whole band doing a call-and-response with backing vocals; That’s Not the Part of Him You’re Leaving may be the best country song Costello’s ever written, a lushly successful mix of vintage countrypolitan and characteristically acerbic lyricism. They closed with a mysteriously lyrical spy story, All These Strangers. The album comes out today.
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
I think you answered your own question, ba. Alternate sources are always welcome. So bring it, dude.bronxapostle wrote:
do we really need another bronxapostle recording with this one available doc??? or wait...do i hear an annoying rumbly sscscscsscscscsscs sound during JOSEPHINE vocals? eh, maybe the completist EC boot collector or a fan of the old analog ambient recordings i provide will dig mine also. i bet the guy sitting to my left last night might just like mine better...maybe E himself would like my work! DIRECT TO EAR!
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
hey Doc...are these mp3's the same source as what WNYC has available in mp3 here?...http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3 ... 10cpod.mp3
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
My mp3's (on MediaFire) are audio captured from the live internet stream. I can only assume this is the same source as what WNYC is offering in their podcast, but I could be wrong.bronxapostle wrote:hey Doc...are these mp3's the same source as what WNYC has available in mp3 here?...http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3 ... 10cpod.mp3
Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
The WNYC mp3 doesn't include the entire set.
Thanks to doc for capturing it all!
Thanks to doc for capturing it all!
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
yeh, i downloaded the mp3's from WNYC and then threw DOC's all these strangers into the same folder. is it my imagination or does that last song from doc sound better than the wnyc dl????
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
The whole show can be seen here: http://www.wnyc.org/thegreenespace/even ... -costello/
And you can easily download too!!!
And you can easily download too!!!
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
Sorry for sounding a bit dim but how would you download this?sweetest punch wrote:The whole show can be seen here: http://www.wnyc.org/thegreenespace/even ... -costello/
And you can easily download too!!!
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
Great thanks,sweetest punch wrote:The whole show can be seen here: http://www.wnyc.org/thegreenespace/even ... -costello/
EC is in great form here
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
I have downloaded the free version of "RealPlayer". This programme asks "Download this video?" when you move your mouse across the video.John wrote:Sorry for sounding a bit dim but how would you download this?sweetest punch wrote:The whole show can be seen here: http://www.wnyc.org/thegreenespace/even ... -costello/
And you can easily download too!!!
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
verbal gymnastics wrote:So hands up all those who think Elvis actually Twitters.
It's good to see Elvis getting proper promotion.
A) Thanks Jeremy. You're right. I looked it up on the world wide inter web net.Jeremy Dylan wrote:A) It's tweets.
B) He probably has as much personal involvement in his twitter account as Tom Waits does in his.
B) True. And the same can probably be said for many a celebrity.
The interview sounds great fun. I can't wait to give it a listen.
Who’s this kid with his mumbo jumbo?
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
The FM broadcast is up on Dime: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=330338
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
Thanks for this SP. It's downloading at the moment.sweetest punch wrote:I have downloaded the free version of "RealPlayer". This programme asks "Download this video?" when you move your mouse across the video.John wrote:Sorry for sounding a bit dim but how would you download this?sweetest punch wrote:The whole show can be seen here: http://www.wnyc.org/thegreenespace/even ... -costello/
And you can easily download too!!!
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
Enjoy the show on YouTube
Intro
I Lost You
Dr. Watson, I Presume
Band Intros
Poor Borrowed Dress
Elvis Interview Part 1
One Bell Ringing
A Slow Drag With Josephine
Jimmie Standing In The Rain
Elvis Interview Part 2
The Spell That You Cast
That's Not The Part Of Him You're Leaving
National Ransom
All These Strangers
Credits
Intro
I Lost You
Dr. Watson, I Presume
Band Intros
Poor Borrowed Dress
Elvis Interview Part 1
One Bell Ringing
A Slow Drag With Josephine
Jimmie Standing In The Rain
Elvis Interview Part 2
The Spell That You Cast
That's Not The Part Of Him You're Leaving
National Ransom
All These Strangers
Credits
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
Authored DVD with menu and chapters by song now on HungerCity:
http://www.hungercity.org/details.php?id=11999
I'm working on the compilation DVD's now.
http://www.hungercity.org/details.php?id=11999
I'm working on the compilation DVD's now.
Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
Thanks for the endless efforts once again!!!!docinwestchester wrote:Authored DVD with menu and chapters by song now on HungerCity:
http://www.hungercity.org/details.php?id=11999
I'm working on the compilation DVD's now.
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
Thanks for all your work!docinwestchester wrote:Authored DVD with menu and chapters by song now on HungerCity:
http://www.hungercity.org/details.php?id=11999
I'm working on the compilation DVD's now.
But I have no Hungercity account. Will this also become avalaible through Dime?
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Re: Elvis & The Sugarcanes, New York City, Nov. 1, 2010
Dime rejected it. I gave them first dibs, but they don't allow webcast captures without complete infomation about the source's video and audio specs, which I couldn't obtain.sweetest punch wrote:Thanks for all your work!docinwestchester wrote:Authored DVD with menu and chapters by song now on HungerCity:
http://www.hungercity.org/details.php?id=11999
I'm working on the compilation DVD's now.
But I have no Hungercity account. Will this also become avalaible through Dime?
It's easy to get a HungerCity account. Just register for free. Let me know if you have any trouble.
http://www.hungercity.org/index.php