Friday, July 29, 2011

Elvis Costello's Spectacle -- Best Music Progam Ever?

I don't want to bore you with a review -- just a list of Elvis' guests & the songs they play should tell you how great these are.
Series One -- Elton John, President Bill Clinton, Tony Bennett, The Police, Smokey Robinson, Lou Reed, Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, John Mellencamp, Rosanne Cash, Norah Jones, Allen Toussaint, Rufus Wainwright, Renee Flemming, Kate McGarrigle, Jakob Dylan, Jenny Lewis, She & Him, James Burton, Pat Methany, Julian Schnabel, Laura Cantrell, Bll Frisell & Elvis Costello's Imposters; Pete Thomas, Steve Nieve & Davey Faragher
Songs; Sunshine of Your Love, Purple Haze, Me & Bobby McGee, Sunday Morning Coming Down, You've Really Got A Hold on Me, Going To A Go Go, The Tracks of My Tears,What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love & Understanding,Watching the Detectives/ Walking on the Moon, Please Stay/Every Breath You Take, Roxanne, Alison, Small Town, Almost Blue, Sulfur to Sugarcane, The Scarlet Tide,  All This Useless Beauty, Sweet Baby James, Fire And Rain, That Lonesome Road, Why, Baby Why, Crying In the Rain, Bartender's Blues, But Not For Me, A Case For You, Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word, Night Train, Exactly Like You, Makin' Whoopie, Working in a Coal Mine, Baby Let's PLay House, Mystery Train, Cold, Cold Heart, Big River, Show Biz Kids, Straight To Hell, If I Only Had A Brain, The Way You Look Tonight, I'm Old Fashoined, I've Got the World on A String, Seven Year Ache, Longest Days, How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart, April 5th, Here Comes That Rainbow Again,Willie Moore, Sweet Jane, Femme Fatale, New Paint, Nefertiti, Watermelon Man, Chan's Song, Embraceable You, No More Tear Stained Make-up, The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game, Don't Know Why, Perfect Day, Set The Twilight Reeling, Border Song, Who Cares, Ballad of a Well Known Gun, Edith & the Kingpin, Down River, Is This America, Rock Minuet, Weird Nightmare, Flow of My Tears, Memphis Skyline, Vibrate, Change Is Hard, Pretty Bird, One Headlight, On Up The Mountain, Go Away, Carpetbaggers, Vissi D'Arte, Answer Me, L'Absence, Begining to See the Light

Series Two -- Bruce Springsteen, Bono, The Edge, John Prine, Levon Helm, Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, Richard Thompson, Allen Toussaint, Jesse Winchester, Nick Lowe, Nils Lofgren, Ron Sexsmith, Neko Case, Mary Louise Parker, Ray LaMantagne & Elvis Costello's Imposters
Songs; I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea, Motel Matches, Shabby Doll, So Like Candy, I Still Have That Oher Girl, I Threw It All Away, Town Cryer, Brilliant Mistake, She's the One, Wild Billy's Circus Story, American Skin (41 Shots), I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down, Radio Silence/ Radio Nowhere/ Radio, Radio, Seeds, The Rising, Pretty Woman, Black Ladder, Galveston Bay, Dirty Day, Alison, I Want You, Rag, Mama, Rag, Shoot Out The Lights, The Beast in Me, Holy Cow, Tennessee Jed, A Certain Girl, The Weight, Mysterious Ways, Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of, Stay (Faraway, So Close), Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad, Pump it Up/ Get on Your Boots, I'm Ahead if I can Quit While I'm Behind, Lake Marie, Natural Forces, Jolene, Henry Nearly Killed Me (it's a Shame), Loretta, Payday, Secret Heart, If It Makes You Happy, Don't Forget Me, Sham A Lang  Ding Dong, Brand New Tennessee Waltz, Every Day I Write The Book, Leaving Las Vegas, Prison Girls, Ring Them Bells

WHEW!!!!!

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