Perfect Secrets: Supposed Upcoming Coward Bros. Album
lazu...@webtv.net
pass..People's Limousine & They'll Never Take Her Love From Me were
terrific, and their voices blended really well.
Sal Video
Perfect Secrets
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Perfect Secrets, 2009
Perfect Secrets is an upcoming album by Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett -
or perhaps their alter egos The Coward Brothers - recorded in Nashville
between March 31 and April 2, 2008. It is expected to be released in 2009 on
the Hear Music label.
It is unclear how much of the little that has been revealed about the album
is accurate, since some of Elvis' remarks are obviously tongue in cheek.
Background
2008-03-20 - A "temporary news update" appeared on the official Elvis
Costello website. The list of upcoming events included some preposterous
details:
March 31st: New Coward Brothers session. Live studio recording of the
soundtrack for a stop-frame animation feature adapted from the James Ensor
painting, "Christ's Last Entry Into Brussels".
April 1st: Formal announcement of the release of "Henry and Howard's Last
Entry Into Brussels". U.S. edition of record will be released on a
state-by-state basis, in alphabetical order.
Due to problems with piracy, only one copy will be manufactured for issue
in each state or international territory.
Individual copies will be encoded with the new, KNARP discriminators and
secreted in the racks of selected stockists.
Those discovering each unique disc will be free to do with it as their
conscience deems fit.
2008-03-28 - A MarketWatch profile of T Bone Burnett was more
straighforward:
The Coward Brothers, 2006
When we talked about music, Burnett was cheerful and relaxed, even though
he must've been somewhat preoccupied by the massive workload awaiting him.
He was a few weeks shy of relocating to Nashville, where he and his old
friend Costello planned to complete work on an album in only three days...
2008-04-22 - In a post on his official website Elvis added:
"On Monday morning [March 31], I was in Sound Emporium with my brother
Henry Coward and an incredible group of musicians including, Jerry Douglas,
Stuart Duncan, Mike Compton, Dennis Crouch and Jim Lauderdale.
We successfully recorded the more than 35 pieces of "Henry and Howard's
Last Entry Into Brussels" in three days and about which I'm sure you've
already heard quite enough. The release of this soundtrack will be announced
at this location in due course.
2008-05-20 - An article on Rolling Stone's website about Burnett's new Code
format - a higher-fidelity audio-only DVD packaged with a standard CD -
mentioned that Burnett "expects Elvis Costello to release his next album
with Code."
2008-08-30 - An article about Code in the Los Angeles Times said Costello's
next album would be released by Hear Music in 2009.
2008-09-15 - A post on Variety's website described a demonstration of the
Code format in which Burnett "played two cuts from the next Elvis Costello
album. Both tunes were dominated by acoustic instruments with Costello on
acoustic guitar and bluegrass star Stuart Duncan on mandolin; it's a
significantly different sound for Costello, a dramatic departure from the
last several discs."
2008-09-28 - An article in the San Francisco Chronicle suggested the album's
title is Perfect Secrets.
Retrieved from
"http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Perfect_Secrets"
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lazu...@webtv.net
Elvis would do some of their old songs with new arrangements &
accompaniment..but hell I'd be plenty satisfied if they could put outa
album of new songs that could come close to the outtakes and b-sides of
KOA.
Arnold Gallagher
eh? That should be good for a 12-song CD and then 6 or 8 expanded
editions, depending on whether they want to add 3 or 4 cuts at a time.
The 6 or 8 re-releases could be spread out over anywhere between 5 and
15 years, depending on marketing decisions and whims, but the first
should be no more than 6 months after the original in order to inflict
"I'm such an idiot AGAIN" pain on the maximum number of loyal fans.
"Sal Video" <svi...@socal.rr.com> wrote in
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> Good, I see they recorded "more than 35 pieces." So, at least 36 songs,
> eh? That should be good for a 12-song CD and then 6 or 8 expanded
> editions, depending on whether they want to add 3 or 4 cuts at a time.
>
> The 6 or 8 re-releases could be spread out over anywhere between 5 and
> 15 years, depending on marketing decisions and whims, but the first
> should be no more than 6 months after the original in order to inflict
> "I'm such an idiot AGAIN" pain on the maximum number of loyal fans.
>
> >news:23311-495...@storefull-3231.bay.webtv.net...
> >> Anyone know about this? I'd be might interested, if it comes to
> >> pass..People's Limousine & They'll Never Take Her Love From Me were
> >> terrific, and their voices blended really well.
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Sounds good. What year will 3CD the super-duper deluxe ultimate
better than them all edition be out? And how many editions will be out
before this one?
lazu...@webtv.net
Arnold Gallagher
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lazu...@webtv.net
think the 2 of them could make a solid CD.
I wish in retrospect Elvis & Paul could have made an album produced by
T. Bone...