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Five new, co-written songs (lyrics mostly by Costello) are more oblique but zero in on specific targets. "Broken Promise Land" references Bush's empty pledge in Jackson Square. Costello turns back the simmering title track's torrent with a sneer, lambasting those who "govern with money and superstition." Toussaint's elegant piano unveils the album's emotional core in "Ascension Day," a stunning minor-key reworking of Professor Longhair's iconic "Tipitina," where Costello paints Katrina's surreal aftermath with new lyrics offering a sliver of hope along with a potential epitaph. With vast sections of New Orleans still ghostly landscapes of gutted houses, the tortured eloquence of this collaboration echoes a line both men used in their solo pasts: "from a whisper to a scream." | Five new, co-written songs (lyrics mostly by Costello) are more oblique but zero in on specific targets. "Broken Promise Land" references Bush's empty pledge in Jackson Square. Costello turns back the simmering title track's torrent with a sneer, lambasting those who "govern with money and superstition." Toussaint's elegant piano unveils the album's emotional core in "Ascension Day," a stunning minor-key reworking of Professor Longhair's iconic "Tipitina," where Costello paints Katrina's surreal aftermath with new lyrics offering a sliver of hope along with a potential epitaph. With vast sections of New Orleans still ghostly landscapes of gutted houses, the tortured eloquence of this collaboration echoes a line both men used in their solo pasts: "from a whisper to a scream." | ||
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{{tags}}[[The River In Reverse]] {{-}} [[Allen Toussaint]] {{-}} [[The Crescent City Horns]] {{-}} [[The Imposters]] {{-}} [[Freedom For The Stallion]] {{-}} [[Nearer To You]] {{-}} [[Tears, Tears And More Tears]] {{-}} [[Broken Promise Land]] {{-}} [[Ascension Day]] {{-}} [[Tipitina]] | |||
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[[Rick Mason]] reviews ''[[The River In Reverse]]''. | [[Rick Mason]] reviews ''[[The River In Reverse]]''. | ||
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