| Costello, Elvis / National Ransom |
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| Album: | National Ransom | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Costello, Elvis | Added: | Oct 2010 | |
| Label: | Hear Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-11-28 | Pull Date: | 2011-01-30 |
| Week Ending: | Jan 30 | Jan 23 | Jan 16 | Jan 9 | Jan 2 | Dec 26 | Dec 19 | Dec 12 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 05, 2023: | Down in the Basement Jimmie Standing In The Rain | 4. | Jan 22, 2011: | VandenBeats Stations Of The Cross | |
| 2. | Jan 28, 2011: | Time Traveler Church Underground | 5. | Jan 20, 2011: | Daydream Disaster National Ransom | |
| 3. | Jan 23, 2011: | My Little Pony Jimmie Standing In The Rain | 6. | Jan 15, 2011: | Music Casserole You Hung The Moon |
| Album Review |
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| Gabe Reviewed 2010-11-22 | ||
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Why EC is a mainstay of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass – he’s a fan of honest country and western. He ranges here across a variety of styles from bluesy to country crooners to gypsy jazz to quiet acoustic moments, most of them pretty convincing, exhibits some humor, often bitter, and plays vintage guitars (noted by model and year in the liner notes). Literary story songs predominate. Call it the dark counterpart of Asylum Street Spankers. Lest you think this country thing is some lark (having heard only of EC’s punk or classical or what-have-you styles, note that EC’s fourth album back in the early 1980s was also a country album, Almost Blue, that, at the time, was treated as a one-off lark of some sort from the angry young man punk. 1. Noisy rocker decrying the riot of the (monetary) elites since 1929 2. Acoustic jazz story song of an unfortunate man 3. Slow ballad 4. Cute, with whistling outro 5. Catchy pop song with just a touch of twang 6. Story of CA showbiz disillusionment and resistance 7. Great torch song with EC in crooner mode; lyrical image – You hung the moon/ From a gallows in the sky/Choked out the light 8. Sad, slow, alluding to Central American revolutionary assassinations 9. Uptempo country rock 10. Midtempo more country than rock 11. Slow, stately 12. Barroom rock with 60s Vox organ embellishment 13. Honky-tonk cry-in-your-beer tune 14. Humorous upbeat blues rocker about the joys of Jezebel 15. Haunting ballad, with accordion, mandolin, and lap steel 16. Western swing | ||
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