Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Maybe you're just thinking of T-Bone Wolk, whose first name is Thomas, I think.

The beginning of his biographical entry in the All Music Guide: Despite critical acclaim as a performer, the rootsy singer/songwriter T-Bone Burnett earned his greatest renown as a producer, helming recording sessions for acts ranging from Roy Orbison and Elvis Costello to Counting Crows and Sam Phi...

Henry Burnett = T-Bone Burnett

Either Ms. Gardner doesn't know this, or she didn't think mentioning it was worth the space.

The Bravo cable network will rebroadcast the EC edition of its "Musicians" series next weekend, Saturday 12/6/03 at 4:30 am EST (check your local listings). For those who may have missed it, this is an excellent program, a full hour (minus commercial breaks) interview conducted in the spri...

oily slick wrote:if you've ever listened to the byrds, you heard it in most of their tunes!

. . . . nonetheless, he wrote it.

Here they are - no need to bolt: (picture EC with cigarette, shot glass and bottle of Jack Daniels) Elvis Costello Secrets: "I changed my name to Elvis Costello because my real name, Declan MacManus, just sounded too Jewish." "Before I was a rock star having my clothes torn off by gir...

Stop Making Sense is indeed a wonderful concert film, rivalled in my opinion only by The Last Waltz. I give the nod to SMS because it's more tightly focussed, and because of the utter lack of Neil Diamond. As if the movie weren't great enough, the DVD is especially wonderful, as I've pointed out on ...

OH MAN! I usually watch Conan EVERY night I work, but tonight we have the tv off, listening to Bowie! :shock: The good news is that these segments are generally repeated, although unpredictably. The other good news is that the entire show will be on Comedy Central Monday (6 pm EST; as always, check...

Conan's show has an occasional feature called "Secrets," pre-taped pieces in which some celebrity sits in a chair with a drink and a smoke, and with a blank wall as a backdrop they confess some supposedly unknown and generally sordid (and made up) things about themselves. I've seen install...

It's tonight actually, although it is technically Friday. It's Craig Kilborn's show, the post-Letterman program on CBS.

Kilborn has nothing of Conan's charm though, and if there's an interview, I wouldn't be surprised if there are barbed responses.

I want to see the closing jam session with Prince, Jackson Brown, Stevie Winwood and ZZ Top doing "Medicated Goo," "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Little Red Corvette."

I accidently played too much Elvis. . . I just don't get it. I know the meaning of each one of those words individually. Parsing the clause, it seems to be simple declarative. I see that the proper parts of speech are all there and apparently in an order that should make sense; however, this statem...

I'm due to reread all five books of the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy soon. Mr. radio, this might interest you if you haven't discovered it already. Terry Jones of Monty Python fame has authored a book called Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic , which I think is based on an Adams-authored video game. Her...

Yeah, the pre-Christmas ban is always a bummer. I just managed to slip the new Talking Heads retrospective Once in a Lifetime in under the wire. It's a 3-CD set with a DVD of videos, and the remixing/remastering is supposed to be phenomenal. My order should arrive before Thanksgiving, and that, plus...

Mummy wants to get this for me for Xmas, and being a dutiful son, I'm letting her. I told her though, it has to be the 2-disc version or I'm writing her out of the will. Dammit, I saw it for $11.99 today, and I know she'll end up spending more, not to mention that I'll have a bad five weeks waiting ...

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Björk, Later with Jools Holland Dangerous Beauty Nobody's Fool Images I just ordered, as Xmas presents for myself, a DVD of 60s (and maybe early 70s) performances by the Who on German television, and Springsteen's DVD from Barcelona with the E Street Band ( The Rising tour) I see that Into the Night...

And he wrote the soundtrack to Brazil, for which he should be remembered as long as there are movie fans. That job earned him the distinction of being one of the very few composers other than Kate Bush who have had a song recorded by Kate Bush. The others I can recall are Donovan, and Elton John &am...

The Willie Nelson tribute concert that featured Diana and Elvis singing together has been made into an album, called Willie Nelson and Friends: Live and Kickin' . I haven't heard it yet so don't know if it's worth having, but for those interested, I think other guests include Eric Clapton, Norah Jon...

I think it's Wednesday night (Thursday about 1:25 am) EC is on Conan's show, and then Thursday night (Friday about 1:25 am) he's supposed to be on the insufferable Craig Kilborn's show. For those who may not have seen it/taped it (assuming you don't want to acquire the superlative DVD) check your lo...

I tried to get into Radiohead, but they said that I wasn't quailified, not being able to sing, write songs or play an instrument.

Just imagine the small-mindedness!

I'm still not convinced. . . . I'm still not buying that Nader folks were more disposed to vote for Gore than Bush. Many of these people have been voting Green or Socialist or Libertarian for years (me included). BWAP, thanks for the link. Methinks the Green Party doth protest too much! To me, the ...

With Bush only beating Gore in Florida by a couple of hundred votes (official count, get over it), the Nader Democrats handed the election to Bush. Quite right there, noise, and Florida was only one of the three or four states where Nader's voters, or even a reasonable split of them (i.e., 50% to G...

Disclaimer: The self-depricating LessThanZero voted for this man, because he didn't want to vote for anyone else. But LTZ was saved from his sins, because Gore won Michigan. So, you can't blame me right? :) No, I can't blame you, at least not entirely. Mostly I blame Ralph Nader and the estimable j...

I just saw "Love Actually" and thought it was excellent. Sappy, yes in some ways, as Christmas movies tend to be, almost have to be, but quite good in the clinches. The scene where new PM Hugh Grant meets his Number Ten household staff for the first time has a huge laugh in it, and Grant, ...