Susanna Hoffs & Elvis will be doing a duet

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Susanna Hoffs & Elvis will be doing a duet

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http://www.public-republic.com/news/The ... a_duet_on/

Susanna & Elvis Costello will be doing a duet on Susanna's Peter Asher produced solo album.
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Here's Elvis Costello in 1979. Behind him on Here's Elvis Costello in 1979. Behind him on the drums is the fantastic Peter Thomas who several years before, played drums with my folk group the MFQ. The second time I photographed Elvis Costello was last week in Malibu at a recording session for Susanna Hoffs new album, with Peter Asher producing. Wish you could've been there to hear all the great stories coming out of his mouth! Whatta guy.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... va-ZtCOzr8

Susanna Hoffs, Aimee Mann Team Up to Cover Badfinger’s Power Pop Classic ‘Name of the Game’
Track will appear on the Bangles frontwoman’s new covers album, Bright Lights

The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs has tapped Aimee Mann for a new cover of Badfinger’s “Name of the Game.” The track will appear on Hoffs’ upcoming covers album, Bright Lights, out November 12th via Baroque Folk Records.
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Seems like the Elvis duet isn’t part of the covers album: https://americansongwriter.com/susanna- ... ht-lights/
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Yeah, it looks like there are two Susanna Hoffs albums in the works. The covers album is produced by Paul Bryan. The EC duet is produced by Peter Asher.
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A Peter Asher-produced Susanna Hoffs album has now been announced, but there's no mention of EC.

Susanna Hoffs Switches Roles on The Rolling Stones’ “Under My Thumb,” Reveals New Album
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The rumoured EC duet did not show up on the latest Susanna Hoffs cover album The Deep End ( produced by Peter Asher released in April this year).

Here are a few details about that missing duet recording from Susanna her own self.

In the introductory portion of this June 2023 interview she reveals the EC duet is a cover of the Rolling Stones song " Connection".
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/featur ... anna-hoffs


And similarly from a transcript of an interview with Susanna by Rick Rubin ( published Nov 2023) :
https://omny.fm/shows/broken-record-wit ... anna-hoffs

" I did it with the great Peter Asher, who you know was the first president of Apple Records and produced James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt records that literally changed my life. And I taught myself to sing. Just like with the book writing, I didn't study. I just studied by mimicking albums. So whether it was a Joni album or Linda albums, you know, and the Peter Asher were so great. Yeah. So Peter randomly reached out at a very dark place during the pandemic when we were all really stuck at home, but we were starting to be able to go out. We'd been vaccinated, you know, things were looking brighter. And I started to go to Malibu twice a week and we would just sit around with guitars and just sing like campfire style. Yeah, and then we realized there was a handful of songs that- because I was so engrossed in doing revisions still on the book - it was fun to just cover songs. And then it went from sitting in his living room with guitars and singing to the idea to call Elvis Costello and on the EP that's not out yet, Wed, we recorded so much music that we made an album. It was like we could have been a double album we were considering, which would be very old school, like very seventies, but we ended up putting out the album and then we have sort of an EP. But Elvis Costello I wanted to I always wanted to do the Keith Richards high harmony on Connection there the rolling Stone song, so we sing that together and I'm Keith and Elvis's Mick. So yeah, that album has a ever so slightly leaning towards country and western sort of material."


So, it may still see the light of day on an EP - but, I'm not aware that such an EP has been released or announced anywhere.
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