''Deep Dead Blue'' is a live album by Elvis Costello with

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recorded at the Meltdown Festival in 1995.

Review

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review by Steve Huey states "It's no real surprise that the two work well together, given the musical affinity demonstrated on Frisell's masterful reinterpretations of ''

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'' material on his own album ''

The Sweetest Punch ''The Sweetest Punch'' is a 1999 album by Bill Frisell, released as a companion to Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach's 1998 album ''Painted from Memory''. Many of the earlier album's songs are featured with new arrangements by Frisell, mostly ...

''. The pleasures of Deep Dead Blue are, to be sure, much subtler than either of those recordings, but they make an elegant and fascinating supplement".Huey, S.

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accessed 23 July 2009

Track listing

# "Weird Nightmare" ( Charles Mingus) – 3:35 # "Love Field" ( Elvis Costello) – 3:24 # "Shamed into Love" (

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, Costello) – 4:26 # "Gigi" ( Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 4:16 # "Poor Napoleon" (

Declan MacManus Declan Patrick MacManus OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award in 2020, and has twice been nom ...

) – 4:05 # "Baby Plays Around" (

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, MacManus) – 3:08 # "Deep Dead Blue" (Costello,

) – 3:51

Personnel

*Elvis Costello -voice *Bill Frisell - guitar ;Technical *Roger Moutenot - engineer, mixing *Lee Townsend - mixing

References

{{Bill Frisell Collaborative albums Elvis Costello live albums Bill Frisell albums Live EPs 1995 EPs 1995 live albums Nonesuch Records live albums Nonesuch Records EPs