Painted from Memory

Encyclopedia : P : PA : PAI : Painted from Memory

Painted From Memory is a collaboration between Elvis Costello and famed sixties pop tunesmith Burt Bacharach, released September 29, 1998, on Mercury Records, now a division of the Universal Music Group.

The collaboration commenced with "God Give Me Strength," a commission for the 1996 film Grace of My Heart, directed by Allison Anders and starring Illeanna Douglas. Apparently pleased with the result, the pair expanded the project to this full album, the first for Costello after an absence of two years, and for Bacharach after an absence of 21 years. Lyrics and music are co-credited to both Bacharach and Costello.

A companion album was made concurrently by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, released in 1999 on Polygram Records, The Sweetest Punch. It consisted of jazz arrangements of the Painted From Memory songs done by Frisell and his studio group. It features vocals by Costello on two songs, and by jazz singer Cassandra Wilson on two songs, one of which is a duet employing both.

Costello had long been a Bacharach fan, and had recorded several Bacharach songs, beginning with "My Little Red Book," released on a 1978 Stiff Records compilation Live Stiffs.

Track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach.

"In the Darkest Place" – 4:19
"Toledo" – 4:35
"I Still Have That Other Girl" – 2:46
"This House Is Empty Now" – 5:10
"Tears at the Birthday Party" – 4:38
"Such Unlikely Lovers" – 3:24
"My Thief" – 4:20
"The Long Division" – 4:15
"Painted from Memory" – 4:12
"The Sweetest Punch" – 4:09
"What's Her Name Today?" – 4:08
"God Give Me Strength" – 6:11

External links

Karen Schoemer [The Odd Couple], originally from Newsweek 10 May 1998, online on bacharachonline.com

Elvis Costello
Albums
My Aim Is True \| Spike \| King of America \| Brutal Youth \| Mighty Like a Rose \| Kojak Variety \| North \| Il Sogno
Elvis Costello and The Attractions
This Year's Model \| Armed Forces \| ''Get Happy > Trust \| Almost Blue \| Imperial Bedroom \| Punch the Clock \| Goodbye Cruel World \| Blood and Chocolate \| All This Useless Beauty''
Elvis Costello and The Imposters
When I Was Cruel \| Cruel Smile \| The Delivery Man
Collaborations
The Juliet Letters with The Brodsky Quartet \| Terror & Magnificence with John Harle \| Painted from Memory with Burt Bacharach \| The Sweetest Punch with Bill Frisell \| For the Stars with Anne-Sofie von Otter \| My Flame Burns Blue with The Metropole Orkest \| Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland \| The River in Reverse with Allen Toussaint
Live Albums
Live at the El Mocambo \| Deep Dead Blue \| Costello & Nieve
Soundtracks
G.B.H. \| Jake's Progress
Collections
Taking Liberties \| Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers \| The Best of Elvis Costello & The Attractions \| Out of Our Idiot \| Girls+£÷Girls=$&Girls \| 2 ½ Years \| The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977-86 \| Extreme Honey \| The Very Best of Elvis Costello \| Singles, Vol. 1 \|Singles, Vol. 2 \|Singles, Vol. 3

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.