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Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett on Bringing Their Fictional ‘Coward Brothers’ to Life in Audible Series and Soundtrack — and the Real-Life Dual History in ‘King of America’ Boxed Set
Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett discuss Audible's scripted series 'The True Story of the Coward Brothers,' the companion album and 'King of America.'
The Costello-scripted, Christopher Guest-directed, three-part audio series and its accompanying album are arriving right on the heels of an expansive boxed set that includes a substantial portion of the 40 years of collaborations between Costello and Burnett. As opposed to implausible, one of many words that might be used to describe the somewhat satirical “True Story of the Coward Brothers.” In an expansive conversation with Variety, Costello was joined by Burnett to talk about the new collaborations as well as what brought them together in the mid-‘80s, in the service of creating a kind of European-inflected Americana that has been wildly influential on other artists through the years. Costello: Then there was the suggestion that “The Crooked Line” could be the end titles song of “Walk the Line.” That was when I realized that things had gone horribly wrong and the Cowards could be the only people responsible for such a notion, because it was purely a piece of studio placement.
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