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Mojo, December 2007
"I pay taxes here and I can't vote so I'll say what I like," barks Elvis Costello, as he carefully examines the audience who've come to see him play live in this basketball arena. It could easily turn nasty because we are in Norfolk, Virginia, home of the biggest navy base in the world, and he's a bolshie singer-songwriter with a war to protest. Old pro that he is he offers up the sweeteners: long-haul favourites like "(The Angels Want To Wear My) Red Shoes" and "Alison" and jokes about his new wife, Canadian jazzwoman Diana Krall, and twin babies — "We called them Frank and Dexter so they could go into vaudeville when they grow up." But between these easements, he eyeballs these 8,000 Southerners and gives them Dick Cheney gags and, "This is a song about a war widow who's come to question what she's been told," before launching into "The Scarlet Tide." This is the theatre of reality, the foreigner chancing his arm. The crowd teeters, the collective reaction a kind of silent "Huh?" Then, after each successive volley from the stage, the rumbles of approval gr
"And suddenly all the love songs were about you" The music in Woman as a Foreign Language
There are many songs mentioned in this book. I think songs can do much more than just setting the atmosphere for a love scene. They have the power of shaping our feelings and defining them, and often I felt that a song was the best way to express what was passing through Nina's and Julia/n's minds.
"Rainbow Sleeves", was written by Tom Waits and recorded by Ricky Lee Jones in 1983, but Nina would probably know it in the dark-red-velvet voice of Tim Boyle of the Tim Boyle Trio.
"You're Gorgeous", by Babybird, came out as a single in 1996 and also in the album "Ugly Beautiful". In the same album you can find also the perfectly bloodcurdling "King Bing".
"Je ne veux pas de ton amour" was written by Barbara Weldens and released in her album "Le grand H de l'homme". Barbara died tragically shortly after, on stage. A terrible loss.
Julia/n's passion for Diana Krall is quite understandable. What a
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