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OK, OK–it’s hard to keep a positive attitude in terms of timely updates, relevant news, and this website… Really, just some straight-up, no nonsense skinny would be great. Listen to Kiss Like Your KIss here! http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/05/20/true-blood-volume-2-soundtrack-stream/ Now, that it’s out, can the powers-to-be share a bit about the players, lyrics, etc? Please? Wow, why wasn’t there a link on this site to the actual track and/or additional information? Any news on the tour that seems to be trying to get off the ground? Any news at all? Frankly, I’m amazed…!
Great stuff David.
Love the song=sounds like there is a violin playing early in the song.
Here is what Elvis said about Lucinda’s song from his web site.
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“True Blood Volume 2” is released on May 25th
“The album contains a newly recorded Lucinda Williams song, “Kiss Like Your Kiss” which features a harmony vocal from Elvis Costello.Speaking to minister of information, The Right Reverend Jimmy Quickly, Costello said:
“This is one of the best vocal performances of Lucinda’s recording career. I just tried to stay out of the way and add a little harmony where absolutely needed. It didn’t need a thing more. The show may make you want to bite someone on the neck but this song is going to make you wish you were loved or in love with someone enough so you could sing it to them.” End QUOTE
And KCRW-FM in LA had DJ Gary Calamar on “Morning Becomes Eclectic” on May 17th.
Gary is the supervisor for HBO’sTrue Blood.
You can listen to Gary as 3 songs are played.from Beck, Robbie Robertson and Jace Everett-sorry no Lu.
http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb100517gary_calamar_true_bl
lwjThanks for all the info on the song and the radio interview. Lucinda’s vocals are sweet on this track. After reading following review, Lu was a perfect choice for a song on this soundtrack. Louisiana, Lu, Anne Rice, vampires, swampy…
Review:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20386422,00.html
OK David-thank you for posting the link –here is some no nonsense skinny and I really hope it helps with your attitude problem.
The reason the track wasn’t linked here is 1) It is on a soundtrack on another label and their marketing team markets the record as they see fit. Maybe you noticed that it is an EW exclusive, and I think that answers your question. 2) I didn’t know about it and neither did Lost Highway because it is not their record. More often than not professional courtesy is given and the mktg team that is quarterbacking the project will work with the artists labels and managers as part of their mktg plan. They obviously chose not to do that in this case. Though i’m not real happy about it, this is what happens when mktg depts at labels get trimmed down to one guy and an intern.
The thing that does really piss me off however is the headline which says that the sdtk contains new music from Elvis Costello when it does not (and repeats the same mistake in the story). It contains Elvis singing a harmony part on a new Lucinda song. While I would of course like Lucinda to get the headline, it is not my choice, but I would still like it to be accurate—the way it reads now is a slap in the face to Lucinda and all of the other artists that appear on the soundtrack. I know Elvis would not be happy to see his name used in this way– he didn’t even want to mess with the track (as noted elsewhere) but the sdtk people wanted a Lu/Elvis duet and they paid for it so that is what it had to be. We did retain the rights to put it on Lu’s next record, which we may do but with a different version.
The players on the song are as follows:
Val McCallum -Guitar
DJ Bonebrake -Vibes
David Sutton -Bass
Butch Norton- Drums
The cello part was overdubbed by Nathan Barr who does all the scoring for True Blood show. Also of note is that is the same DJ Bonebrake who has been the drummer in the longtime LA band X, but also as it turns out is a classically trained vibist, and it was great to watch him play. The track was recorded the famous Capitol Records studio B where some of the greatest records in American history have been recorded (Sinatra, Nat King Cole etc.) In fact Lucinda loved the studio so much that it is where she will be recording her next record starting June 1.
Oh yeah I do have a couple pics from this session I will see if I can post them or I will send them to TT and have him post them.Here are the lyrics:
Kiss Like Your Kiss
There will never be a spring so perfect again
We’ll never see a yellow so rich
The grass will never be quite as green
There will never be a kiss like your kissThere will never be a summer so complete
We’ll never see a palette like this
The berries will never taste as sweet
There will never be a kiss like your kissThere will never be an autumn so vivid and warm
So rare, so gold and so crisp
We’ll never see it colored in aubergine
There will never be a kiss like your kissThere will never be a winter quite so true
When the sky is painted with gifts
There will never be a moon so full and blue
There will never be a kiss like your kiss[@TOverby wrote:
There will never be an autumn so vivid and warm
So rare, so gold and so crisp
We’ll never see it colored in aubergineThere will never be a kiss like your kissThank you, thank you TOverby for “setting the record” straight for David as to re: record rights Lost Highway etc.
Lucinda only reinforces her song writing genius to me when she selects a word like aubergine.I must admit I didn’t have a clue as to its meaning so I found out that it is referred to an eggplant of purplish colour.(not color=that’s the way you folks south of the border spell it.)
So as I see it we now have “Port Arthur” and “Kiss Like Your Kiss” a sure thing on the new album.
Keep the good stuff coming Lu.
lwjThanks for the “411 / skinny”, Tom – fascinating stuff, really, and never expected (by me, any way) – but always appreciated. Especially knowing how busy you are what with the new album, trying to arrange the new tour, etc., etc….
But, really now, can’t you provide more “inside” info about the recording of “Kiss Like your Kiss”? Inquiring minds do indeed want to know! What was Lu wearing during the recording session? How about Butch? What did he have for lunch that day? Was Lu sitting or standing while she was singing? And, last but not least, what make & model of microphone did Lu sing into? Details, man, DETAILS!!! Frankly, I find the omission of such pertinent info indefensible… 😉
Tom
P.S. E-mail me the pics if you’d like & I’ll be more than happy to post them…
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How about Butch? What did he have for lunch that day?
We allready know the menu choice was a hot dog with no Canadian Cheddar cheese or a honey peanutbutter toasted sandwich.( maybe with an ice-cold Barq’s root beer to wash things down).
What a great Friday evening bit of fun to start a long weekend ( In Canada eh?-Victoria weekend and for south of the border=Memorial Day)
lwj
p.s. Come on Lafayette and tonyg let’s see some of your banter for Friday.Thanks, TO, for posting–I appreciate it. (yeah, from what I know of EC and conversations I have shared w/him, he would be very pissed by getting the limelight…) Glad to see that kicking the beehive got a bit more information out in terms of lyrics, players, etc. Many of us (especially those like and in the same vein as EC and his 4-string 1958 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 single cutaway arch-top tenor guitar that toured with the original Elvis) find the details (instruments, players, etc. Doug Pettibone is up there too, with his collection of guitars and Matchless amps…) as the baseline, which make up the essential elements and components of the source of the “sound” of a record and/or artist/recording. Audiophiles, if you will–and there’s many of us. It’s nice to see the associated cynicism in some of the posts as it illuminates and brings to light some of the unfortunate presuppositions and ignorance. Education is very important in everything that we do… Unlike some, I am not a hook-line-and-sinker kind of a guy.[attachment=1:38wxhlau]2010-04-20_Boston2.jpg[/attachment:38wxhlau][attachment=0:38wxhlau]url-2.jpg[/attachment:38wxhlau]
Just trying to have some good-natured fun, David. Not being presumptuous, cynical or even ignorant of your interests at all. One would think that since you are so ready & able to dish out rapier-sharp criticisms, you could take a little ribbing. Maybe not.
Tom
Thanks, for the thoughts, Tom–no offense taken, simply pointing to what some musicians bring to the table and how truly important and critical they see their instruments–even down to the original copper-coiled vintage pick-ups (David Lindley is another primo example of this…He and David Crosby have been known to fight over such pick-ups). Over the years, this is something that I have noticed and learned about. Here’s a picture of Studio B along with two of David Lindley’s guitars…[attachment=2:15kdngpf]Studio B.jpg[/attachment:15kdngpf][attachment=1:15kdngpf]David L 1.gif[/attachment:15kdngpf][attachment=0:15kdngpf]David L2.gif[/attachment:15kdngpf]
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