Elvis Costello has introduced the discharge of The Songs of Bacharach & Costello, which options music he created with legendary composer Burt Bacharach.
Accessible on March 3, the gathering contains highlights from the songwriters’ decades-long partnership, which stretches again to 1995 when Costello penned “God Give Me Power” for the film Grace of My Coronary heart. Speaking between Dublin and Los Angeles through fax, Costello and Bacharach workshopped the track collectively, which led them to jot down and file the 1998 album Painted From Reminiscence.
As Costello famous in his 2015 autobiography, Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, “To have written a track like ‘God Give Me Power’ and easily stopped would have been ridiculous.”
A proposed theatrical manufacturing was later developed by Chuck Lorre and Steven Sater utilizing Painted From Reminiscence songs, which prompted Costello and Bacharach to jot down greater than a dozen extra songs. “Of their musical type,” Costello defined of the newer songs in a press launch, “they’re totally different sorts of darkish love songs that anybody would possibly sing in the event that they occurred to be an artist, his mannequin, a spouse, a fantasist, a lover, a philanderer or disillusioned daughter. , enjoyable for all of the household.”
These songs make up one other album on the field, Taken From Life, which contains two tracks (“You Can Have Her” and “Look Up Once more”) organized by Vince Mendoza and recorded in Hollywood in September 2021 below the course of Bacharach. Its title monitor comes from a 2022 recording with Costello’s Imposters and was produced by Sebastian Krys.
The Tremendous Deluxe version of The Songs of Bacharach & Costello will embrace a newly remastered model of Painted From Reminiscence, together with the most recent assortment, Taken From Life, which options unreleased songs from the proposed Painted From Reminiscence musical rating, plus numerous reside performances from the late ’90s, a booklet of images and a ten,000-word essay by Costello.
You possibly can see a whole monitor itemizing beneath.
Costello is presently gearing up for a 10-night residency on the Gramercy Theatre in New York Metropolis, the place he’ll carry out greater than 200 totally different songs all through the nights. He is additionally revealed that whereas a number of the units might be solo, he’ll be joined by some unnamed visitors, too.
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, ‘The Songs of Bacharach & Costello’ Observe Itemizing
CD1 – Painted From Reminiscence
1. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – In The Darkest Place (2023 Remaster)
2. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – Toledo (2023 Remaster)
3. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – I Nonetheless Have That Different Lady (2023 Remaster)
4. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – This Home Is Empty Now (2023 Remaster)
5. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – Tears At The Birthday Occasion (2023 Remaster)
6. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – Such Unlikely Lovers (2023 Remaster)
7. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – My Thief (2023 Remaster)
8. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – The Lengthy Division (2023 Remaster)
9. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – Painted From Reminiscence (2023 Remaster)
10. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – The Sweetest Punch (2023 Remaster)
11. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – What’s Her Identify In the present day? (2023 Remaster)
12. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – God Give Me Power (2023 Remaster)
CD2 – Taken From Life
1. Elvis Costello – You Can Have Her *
2. Cassandra Wilson & Invoice Frisell – Painted From Reminiscence
3. Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Do not Look Now
4. Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Everybody’s Taking part in Home
5. Audra Mae – I Seemed Away *
6. Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Taken From Life *
7. Don Byron & Invoice Frisell – My Thief
8. Jenni Muldaur – Shameless *
9. Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Pictures Can Lie
10. Audra Mae – In The Darkest Place *
11. Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Why Will not Heaven Assist Me?
12. Jenni Muldaur – Stripping Paper *
13. Elvis Costello & The Imposters – He is Given Me Issues
14. Audra Mae – What’s Her Identify In the present day? *
15. Elvis Costello – Look Up Once more *
16. Burt Bacharach – Lie Again & Assume Of England *
CD3 – As a result of It is A Lonely World – Dwell
1. Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve – Toledo (Dwell In Tokyo, Japan, Nakano Sunplaza Corridor – February 8, 1999) *
2. Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve – In The Darkest Place (Dwell In Melbourne, Australia, Athenaeum Theatre – February 16, 1999)
3. Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve – My Thief (Dwell In Tokyo, Japan, Shibuya Corridor – February 10, 1999) *
4. Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve – I Nonetheless Have The Different Lady (Dwell In Tokyo, Japan, Shibuya Corridor – February 10, 1999)
5. Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve – I am going to By no means Fall In Love Once more (Dwell In Toronto, Ontario, Massey Corridor – June 16, 1999) *
6. Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve – God Give Me Power (Dwell In Toronto, Ontario, Massey Corridor – June 16, 1999) *
7. Elvis Costello, Steve Nieve & The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Painted From Reminiscence (Dwell In Stockholm, Sweden, Berwaldhallen – January 5, 1999) *
8. Elvis Costello, Steve Nieve & The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – What’s Her Identify In the present day? (Dwell In Stockholm, Sweden, Berwaldhallen – January 5, 1999) *
9. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – This Home Is Empty Now (Dwell In New York Metropolis, Late Night time with Conan O’Brien – Nov. 27, 1998) *
CD4 – Costello Sings Bacharach & David
1. Elvis Costello & The Points of interest – I Simply Do not Know What To Do With Myself (Dwell in Norwich, UK, College of East Anglia – October 17, 1977)
2. Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe – Child It is You
3. Elvis Costello – Please Keep
4. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – I am going to By no means Fall In Love Once more
5. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – Make It Straightforward On Your self (Dwell in London, UK, Royal Pageant Corridor – October 29, 1998) *
6. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – My Little Purple E book (Dwell in London, UK, Royal Pageant Corridor – October 29, 1998) *
7. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – Anybody Who Had A Coronary heart (Dwell in London, UK, Royal Pageant Corridor – October 29, 1998) *
8. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – I Simply Do not Know What To Do With Myself (Dwell In New York Metropolis, Classes at West 54th – October 18, 1998) *
*Beforehand Unreleased
Elvis Costello Albums Ranked
Even with a profession spanning greater than 4 many years, many collaborators and several other file labels, his discography has had far more hits than misses.
