Elvis remixes Johnny Cash song, March 2014

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http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/03/l ... -me-a-lot/

In his 40-plus-year career, Elvis Costello has worn plenty of hats musically, indulging in everything from New Wave to punk rock to folk to blues to even a little contemporary classical. Today, he adds the title of “remixer” to his resume by reworking Johnny Cash’s “She Used to Love Me a Lot”. Sadly, there are no breakbeats or bass drops; instead, Costello takes a light approach with the twangy ballad, tossing in electric guitar and shreds of feedback to give the track a harder edge.

remix: https://soundcloud.com/#legacyrecording ... he/s-YC9eE

Original version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... BlRx7DlL_E
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sweetest punch wrote:http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/03/l ... -me-a-lot/

In his 40-plus-year career, Elvis Costello has worn plenty of hats musically, indulging in everything from New Wave to punk rock to folk to blues to even a little contemporary classical. Today, he adds the title of “remixer” to his resume by reworking Johnny Cash’s “She Used to Love Me a Lot”. Sadly, there are no breakbeats or bass drops; instead, Costello takes a light approach with the twangy ballad, tossing in electric guitar and shreds of feedback to give the track a harder edge.

remix: https://soundcloud.com/#legacyrecording ... he/s-YC9eE

Original version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... BlRx7DlL_E
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Having listened a few times now I remain unmoved by his 'electronic' additions. They appear to just wash out Mr. Cash's vocal too often and they create almost a spaghetti western orchestration effect. I prefer the moodier evocation on the original which seems to tint the song with an aural sepia hue of memory. But that is just my old ears. EC's embellishments verge on 'new age' muzak for me on this song.
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Today, he adds the title of “remixer” to his resume
Elvis remixed before - in 1996 he remixed Tricky's Christiansand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUoXtyLXVQU


It was a trade in , of sorts, for Tricky remixing Distorted Angel for one of the four editions of the All This Useless Beauty single.

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... ess_Beauty


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This EC version is mixed by Steven Mandel (co-producer Wise Up Ghost).
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The original version of side A is produced by Billy Sherill and engineered by "Snake" Reynolds. Sounds familiar......
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mu ... z2wuD2HHga

Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello and the 'lost' album sessions


By Randy Lewis
March 24, 2014, 10:11 a.m.

Johnny Cash always had his ears open to a great song regardless of where it came from. So even though he was considered a standard-bearer of traditional country music and was deeply knowledgeable about folk, gospel, blues and other roots forms, he also was quick to embrace talented young songwriters, which made him an early champion of such rock figures as Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.

When the British new wave movement sprang up in the late 1970s, Cash also found something to admire in the brash music coming from England and developed friendships with Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe.

That’s the reason behind a bonus track on the“lost” Cash album that’s being released on Tuesday, March 25, “Out Among the Stars.” In addition to the dozen songs that Cash recorded with producer Billy Sherrill in 1981 and 1984 that make up the new collection, there’s an alternate version of the ballad “She Used to Love Me a Lot” that was produced by Costello.

“Elvis is a family friend,” said John Carter Cash, the only child of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, and the man who has spearheaded the release of “Out Among the Stars.” As part of an in-depth interview that will appear Tuesday in Calendar, John Carter Cash said it made perfect sense to invite Costello, a longtime country music fan himself, to try his hand at mixing one of the tracks to bring something different to the album.

“He’s been real close with Rosanne [Cash, Johnny Cash’s daughter from his first marriage to Vivian Liberto] and myself. Elvis had worked with Billy Sherrill, and when my dad was making this record, they were buddies, hanging out together a lot. As early as 1979 they were friends. On the mantle in the Cash family cabin that my parents built in 1979, the first people who signed it were Dave Edmunds and Elvis — all the Rockpile guys signed it.

The version of Rhonda Fleming, Dennis Morgan and Charles Quillen’s “She Used to Love Me a Lot,” from the original session, is being promoted as a single, but the Costello mix offers a dramatically different atmosphere, haunting and foreboding.

“On this song,” John Carter Cash said, “we had two mixes were were going back and forth on which to include for the record. One was more haunted and eerie, one was more up and energetic. We thought we should have someone come in and do a completely different mix, and that was Elvis.”
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The remix doesn't do much for me, either. It seems to just lose the focus of the straight "Cash" version. Oh well, no harm done, really.
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Purchased the record yesterday as a lark and have been pleasantly surprised by its overall liveliness-it is not a 'dead' historic document resurrected from the vaults. But repeated listens to the EC doctored song production have only confirmed my indifference to it. That production just kills the tone of memory and longing that sustains the original. It was an 'extra' track that did not need to be included on the record.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/ ... ther-Elvis

The other Elvis

(...)

His remix of the lost Johnny Cash song She Used To Love Me A Lot was released yesterday.

"It is a very different interpretation of John's performance in which we dispensed with pretty much all of the accompaniments. It happened because I had a connection to the music and the good fortune to know John. Sometimes these things happen and it seems like a big contrast. Like me and Bacharah, that's not something that people can imagine ahead of time but once they've heard the album they can imagine it."

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Updating this because I thought it was relevant to the Bright Blue Times 10" single. The 'dub' mix reminded me of the sound of Elvis's remix of this track. Elvis remixed this with Steven Mandel , part of the Roots setup. I asked Steven , via private message on Twitter, if he worked on Bright Blue Times. He didn't , he tell me.

Looking at this thread I see that it doesn't include details of the CD release of Elvis's remix of the Cash track. I have it on the 7" from 2014 but it is also on this CD/download.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Among-Star ... +The+Stars

https://www.amazon.com/Out-Among-Stars- ... +The+Stars
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