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Elvis Costello & T Bone Burnett: The Coward Brothers

On November 21, 2024, “New West” label released “The Coward Brothers”, album by Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett. It was recorded in 2024, at “Electric Lady” in New York, “East Iris” and “Blackbird” in Nashville, “The Village” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett (as Henry and Howard Coward).

Personnel:

  • Elvis Costello (as Howard Coward) – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, upright piano, organ, sounds, electric bass, tambourine, drums, whistle, bass drum, handclaps, drum machine, Moog synthesizer, grand piano, congas, percussion
  • T Bone Burnett (as Henry Coward) – vocals, electric guitar, electric bass, six-string bass, electric sitar
  • Christopher Guest (as Christopher Guest-Coward) – vocals, “missiles”, acoustic guitar
  • Colin Linden – electric sitar, electric guitar, slide dobro 
  • Dennis Crouch – double bass 
  • Russell Pahl – pedal steel
  • Jay Bellerose – drums, percussion
  • Paul Kowert – arco bass 
  • Diana Krall (as Jean Coward) – upright piano, grand piano
  • “Peter Coward” – military drum 
  • “Dexter Coward” – gunshots
  • “Concepta Collins” – heels
  • Rachael Moore – mixing, recording
  • Michael Piersante – mixing, recording
  • Gavin Larssen – mastering
  • Reuben Cohen – mastering
  • Jeff Powell – vinyl mastering
  • Billy Theriot – additional engineering
  • Miek Stankiewicz – additional engineering
  • Collin Bryson – engineer assistant
  • Austin Brown – engineer assistant
  • Karl Wingate – engineer assistant
  • Eddie Roberts – engineer assistant
  • Ivy Skoff – production coordination
  • Drew Christie – illustrations
  • Tom Bejgrowicz – design, layout

Track listing:

  1. Always – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
  2. Like Licorice – Elvis Costello
  3. My Baby Just Squeals (You Heel) – Elvis Costello
  4. The Devil’s Wife – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
  5. Tipsy Woman – Elvis Costello
  6. My baby Just Purrs (You’re Mine, Not Hers) – Elvis Costello
  7. My Baby Just Whistles (Here Comes the Missiles) Elvis Costello
  8. World Serious – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
  9. Early Shirley – Elvis Costello
  10. Yesteryear Is Near – Elvis Costello
  11.  Birkenhead Girl – Elvis Costello
  12. Smoke-Ring Angel – Elvis Costello, Christopher Guest
  13. Wooden Woman – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
  14. (I Don’t Want Your) – Lyndon Johnson – Elvis Costello
  15. Lotta Money – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Christopher Guest
  16. Pure Bubblegum – Elvis Costello
  17. Cathy Com Home – Elvis Costello
  18. Bygones – T Bone Burnett
  19. Row Me Once – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Christopher Guest
  20. Clown Around Town – Elvis Costello

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raise the Roof

On November 19, 2021, “Rounder Records” and “Concord Records” labels released “Raise the Roof”, the second Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by T Bone Burnett.

Personnel:

  • Robert Plant – vocals
  • Alison Krauss – vocals, fiddle
  • Bill Frisell – acoustic and electric guitar
  • David Hidalgo – acoustic and electric guitar, jarana
  • Buddy Miller – electric mandolin, guitar
  • Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar, guitar, bass guitar
  • Marc Ribot – acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, dobro, bass guitar
  • Stuart Duncan – banjo, cello, fiddle, mandolin
  • Colin Linden – dobro
  • Jeff Taylor – bass accordion, dolceola, Marxophone, piano
  • T Bone Burnett – six-string bass, acoustic and electric guitars, Mellotron,  harmony and backing vocals
  • Dennis Crouch – upright bass
  • Viktor Krauss – upright bass, mellotron
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Lucinda Williams – backing vocals
  • Michael Piersante  – recording, mixing
  • Richard Evans – design, art

Track listing:

  1. Quatro (World Drifts In) – Joey Burns, John Convertino
  2. The Price of Love – Don Everly, Phil Everly
  3. Go Your Way – Anne Brigs
  4. Trouble with My Lover – Allen Toussaint
  5. Searching for My Love – Bobby Moore
  6. Can’t Let Go – Randy Weeks
  7. It Don’t Bother Me – Bert Jansch
  8. You Led Med to the Wrong – Ola Belle Reed
  9. Last Kind Words Blues – Geeshie Wiley
  10. High and Lonesome – Robert Plant, T Bone Burnett
  11. Going Where the Lonely Go – Merle Haggard, Dean Holloway
  12. Somebody Was Watching Over Me – Brenda Burns