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<center><h3> Here's | <center><h3> Here's one I prepared a lot earlier </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Stuart Maconie </center> | <center> Stuart Maconie </center> | ||
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He talks of "cutting records" and "string charts" | He talks of "cutting records" and "string charts." He moves easily from Dan Penn to Otis Rush, Handel to Portishead. Elvis Costello is about to release his second covers album (after 1981's ''Almost Blue''), something, he acknowledges ruefully, that puts him in the company of Duran Duran and Annie Lennox. ''Kojak Variety'' is, however, a very different proposition, featuring songs possibly unfamiliar to even a keen music lover. "Other things got in the way"; is all Costello will say about the delay, but he is almost evangelically keen to explain the choices of song and what he calls "a private jukebox I've had in my head for, in some case, 30 years." | ||
1. [[Strange]] <br> | 1. [[Strange]] <br> | ||
"Screamin' Jay Hawkins is not a particular major figure in my life but half the fun in music is coming across the Quirky one-off that you just love. I found this on a B-side and I just loved the words (''"How many wrinkles in a pickle... / How many crumbs in bread... / Where do eyeballs come from"'' | "Screamin' Jay Hawkins is not a particular major figure in my life but half the fun in music is coming across the Quirky one-off that you just love. I found this on a B-side and I just loved the words (''"How many wrinkles in a pickle... / How many crumbs in bread... / Where do eyeballs come from."'') In fact, the words are so ludicrous I couldn't get through the first verse. But I kept the fuck-up at the beginning because that's the way it was recorded and, anyway, it's not supposed to be an Open University blues album." | ||
2. [[Hidden Charms]] <br> | 2. [[Hidden Charms]] <br> | ||
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'''Q, No. 105, June 1995 | '''Q, No. 105, June 1995 | ||
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Elvis Costello talks to [[Stuart Maconie]] about ''[[Kojak Variety]]''. | Elvis Costello talks to [[Stuart Maconie]] about ''[[Kojak Variety]]''. | ||
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EC names "[[Down River]]" by [[David Ackles]] as the Record That Changed My Life. | |||
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<center><h3> The record that changed my life </h3></center> | |||
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<center> Elvis Costello </center> | <center> Elvis Costello </center> | ||
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'''Pop songs; incidental music; classical; covers; no job too small for Mr Renaissance; born 1955. | |||
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It could have been the very first record I ever owned of my own, which was "Please Please Me" by The Beatles and I nicked loads of stuff off that. Or it could have been a song that you fell in love with when you were a love-struck teenager like "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" by The Supremes & The Temptations. | |||
But I'm going to pick quite an obscure song by an artist called David Ackles. He made two really terrific records for Elektra when I was about 15 or 16 and I used to listen to them very avidly in my bedroom. It was kind of my teenage angst record and he had a very dark, deep, kind of older man's voice. He sang all kinds of different songs, mostly quite dark, and this particular one is called "Down River." | |||
It's the story of a guy who he's been in prison and he comes back to his home town and meets up with this girl. He keeps talking to this girl, Rosie, and little by little, he's having a conversation with her and he realises that he's been in love with her all the time he's been in prison. She's married his best friend and it sounds like a corny country song, but the way he tells it, and the way it happens in the course of the song, is actually very dramatic. | |||
I used to try and work out the chords because I'd learnt to play the guitar when I was about 13 but around that time I'd started plonking on my grandmother's piano and I managed to work my way round some of the chords, in a rather crab-like fashion. I could never really manage to play the whole song. Sometimes I love to play the bass on my records, and I realised that my whole style of bass-playing had been nicked off this one record. I think Elton John probably listened quite a lot to Ackles and stole quite a bit — you know, in the nicest way. | |||
I've picked the record really because not many people know it and I'm sorry that more people don't know this guy's songs so I'm sort of saying that it's changed my life only in the way that lots of different times I've returned to the record and I've always got exactly the same thing from it. | |||
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<small>Photo by [[Ken Sharp]].</small><br> | <small>Photo by [[Ken Sharp]].</small><br> | ||
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