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Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett Play ‘The Coward Brothers’ in Christopher Guest-Directed Audible Comedy Series, Plus 20-Track Soundtrack Album (EXCLUSIVE)
Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett play 'The Coward Brothers' in an Audible comedy series, directed by Christopher Guest, plus a 20-song soundtrack.
Among the other song titles promised for the comedy series and its accompanying album are “A Lotta Money,” “World Serious,” “Tipsy Woman,” “Like Licorice,” “Pure Bubblegum” and “My Baby Just Whistles (Here Come the Missiles,” the last of which is described as the show-biz-veteran brothers’ “failed attempt at Cold War topicality.” Said Costello in a press release, “With regard to the ludicrous assertion that this person, Howard Coward, and I are one and the same, I have to say: this is the work of a bounder, a rounder and a charlatan, and I shall be examining my legal options forthwith.” Burnett, for his part, claimed to have once heard “Pure Bubblegum” on Fort Worth radio, and “the disc jockey played it once and got such a bad response from listeners that they burned it the next morning in front of the station.” In the audio series, the “brothers” — one of whom is British, one American — “bitterly retrace” to radio interviewer Shearer the tale of being “duped out of their royalties and rightful place in pop history by their cutthroat manager who, among other things, persuaded them to fake their own deaths.
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