- The Juliet Letters
Infobox Album
Name = The Juliet Letters
Type = Studio album
Artist =Elvis Costello andThe Brodsky Quartet
Released =January 19 1993
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 62.55
Label =Warner Bros.
Rhino (March 21 2006 Reissue)
Producer =The Brodsky Quartet ,Elvis Costello andKevin Killen
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:oorz283c05na link]
*Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|dud [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2709&name=Elvis+Costello+and+the+Brodsky+Quartet link]
*"Rolling Stone " Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/elviscostello/albums/album/161279/rid/5946036/ link]
Last album = "G.B.H." (1991)
This album = "The Juliet Letters" (1993)
Next album = "2½ Years" (1993)"The Juliet Letters" is a 1993
album byElvis Costello andThe Brodsky Quartet .Track listing
# "Deliver Us" (
Declan MacManus ) – 0:49
# "For Other Eyes" (Paul Cassidy , MacManus,Doug Phillips ) – 2:55
# "Swine" (Cassidy, MacManus) – 2:08
# "Expert Rites" (MacManus) – 2:23
# "Dead Letter" (Cassidy) – 2:18
# "I Almost Had a Weakness" (MacManus, Michael Thomas) – 3:53
# "Why?" (Ian Belton , MacManus) – 1:26
# "Who Do You Think You Are?" (MacManus, Michael Thomas) – 3:28
# "Taking My Life in Your Hands" (Cassidy, MacManus,Jaqueline Thomas , M. Thomas) – 3:20
# "This Offer Is Unrepeatable" (Cassidy, MacManus, Belton, Phillips, J. Thomas, M. Thomas) – 3:12
# "Dear Sweet Filthy World" (Belton, MacManus, M. Thomas) – 4:17
# "The Letter Home" (Belton, Cassidy, MacManus) – 3:10
# "Jacksons, Monk and Rowe" (MacManus, M. Thomas) – 3:43
# "This Sad Burlesque" (Cassidy, MacManus) – 2:47
# "Romeo's Seance"(MacManus, M. Thomas) – 3:32
# "I Thought I'd Write to Juliet" (MacManus) – 4:07
# "Last Post" (M. Thomas, traditional) – 2:24
# "The First to Leave" (MacManus) – 4:59
# "Damnation's Cellar" (MacManus) – 3:25
# "The Birds Will Still Be Singing" (MacManus) – 4:27Bonus disc (2006 Rhino)
# "She Moved Through the Fair" (traditional) – 4:46
# "Pills and Soap" (Live) (Costello) – 4:37
# "King of the Unknown Sea" (Live) (M. Thomas) – 3:51
# "Skeleton" (Live) (M. Thomas) – 4:54
# "More Than Rain" (Live) (Tom Waits ) – 3:25
# "God Only Knows" (Live) (Brian Wilson ) – 4:00
# "They Didn't Believe Me" (Live) (Jerome Kern ) – 4:01
# "O Mistress Mine" (withJohn Harle ) (John Harle ) – 4:03
# "Come Away, Death" (with John Harle) (Harle) – 4:30
# "Put Away Forbidden Playthings" (with Fretwork) (Costello) – 4:12
# "Can She Excuse My Wrongs" (with Fretwork andComposers Ensemble ) (John Dowland ) – 4:05
# "Fire Suite 1" (withRoy Nathanson ) (Roy Nathanson ) – 5:29
# "Fire Suite 3" (with Nathanson) (Nathanson) – 3:19
# "Fire Suite Reprise" (with Nathanson) (Nathanson) – 2:39
# "Gigi" (Live withBill Frisell ) (Alan Jay Lerner ,Frederic Loewe ) – 4:14
# "Deep Dead Blue" (Live with Bill Frisell) (Bill Frisell ) – 3:45
# "Upon a Veil of Midnight Blue" (Live withPunishing Kiss Band ) (Costello) – 4:36
# "Lost in the Stars" (Kurt Weill ) – 3:56Personnel
*
Elvis Costello –vocals
*Paul Cassidy –viola
*Michael Thomas –violin
*Jaqueline Thomas –cello
*Ian Belton – violinCharts
Album
Further Releases
In September 2006, husband-and-wife duo Michelle and David Murray released a new version of The Juliet Letters, arranged for voice and piano by David Murray.
In 2008, Jake Endres and the Theatrical Musical Company produced the first fully-staged theatrical performance of the Juliet Letters, complete with two additional original songs. The production opened in September, 2008 in Minneapolis at the Southern Theater.
External links
* [http://www.2murraysmusic.com/ Information about Michelle and David Murray, performers of The Juliet Letters]
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