Secret, Profane and Sugarcane by Elvis Costello : CD released on June 2, 09

Song Listings :

1. Down Among the Wines and Spirits

2. Complicated Shadows

3. I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came

4. My All Time Doll

5. Hidden Shame

6. She Handed Me a Mirror

7. I Dreamed of My Old Lover

8. How Deep Is the Red

9. She Was No Good

10. Sulphur to Sugarcane

11. Red Cotton

12. The Crooked Line

13. Changing Partners

The record was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded by Mike Pier Ante during three-day session at Nashville Sound Emporium Studio.

Joining Costello had Jerry Douglas (Dobro), Stuart Duncan (violin), Compton Mike (mandolin), Jeff Taylor (accordion) and Dennis Crouch (bass), a few of the most esteemed artists and musicians in a traditional American country music, Bluegrass and beyond.

The album contains ten songs previously unrecorded. "Sulfur to cane" and "The Crooked Line", was co-written with T Bone Burnett, but I felt the chill "marks Costello's second recorded songwriting collaboration with Loretta Lynn.

Costello revisité two songs from his catalog String Band style. Both songs were originally written for Johnny Cash. "Hidden Shame" is included in Cash's album, "Boom Chicka Boom".

The title of the album refers to "The Secret Songs" Costello unfinished commission for the Royal Danish Opera on the lives of Hans Christian Andersen.

Looking for a new connection the authors of the English world, Andersen Costello wrote about the relationship with the famous singer, Jenny Lind in "She gave me a mirror 'and' How Deep Does The Red".

"She was not good", a chaotic part of the details of Lind's famous "All American concert tour of 1850, which was promoted by PT Barnum. In the aftermath 'Red Cotton" thinks Barnum Abolishionist reading a pamphlet, while industry cheap souvenirs of adventure.

These four episodes were recently adapted for the instrumentation of this record.
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