Elvis Costello & the Imposters: Club Date - Live in Memphis [Blu-ray]

Elvis Costello & the Imposters: Club Date - Live in Memphis [Blu-ray]
by Michael B. Borofsky

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Actor: Davey Faragher, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Pete Thomas, Steve Nieve
Director: Michael B. Borofsky
Brand: RED DISTRIBUTION
Producer: Michael B. Borofsky
Editor: Christine Mitsogiorgakis
Producer: Kim Bledsoe-Lloyd
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Dutch (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Live, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Eagle Rock Ent

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Movie Review: Elvis Costello & The Imposters "Live in Memphis" DVD = An Oustanding Close-up Performance at Their Best!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is an outstanding "close-up" performance of Elvis & the Imposters "Live" at the Memphis Hi Tone cafe. This is my favorite Elvis Costello DVD. You get a line-up of Elvis on guitar & lead vocals, Steve Nieve on keyboards & flutes, Pete Thomas on drums & a bass guitar player
(I can't remember his name right now, but he is an excellent bass guitar player. He replaced the original bass player who was in the "Attractions".

I got to see this line-up of Elvis and this band at the 2005 New Orleans Jazz Festival and they were outstanding. This dvd was released just before the Jazz Festival that year. I was in the New Orleans French Quarter the night before their performance, I had just purchased this dvd from the "Mega Virgin Music Store", and I happened to come face to face with Elvis & this band on Canal Street. I was surprised, I followed them down Bourbon Street, and found myself walking next the Pete Thomas. I asked him if he thought it'd be okay, if I asked Elvis for an Autograph. He told me to "go for it". So I kindly asked Elvis for an autograph, and he signed the cover of my DVD of this concert, right on the front cover. I was real impressed with how friendly Elvis & his band were.

Now, the DVD - This is the Elvis style that I really like. This dvd showcases songs from the album he had just released "The Delivery Man". I also have the "Deluxe Version", 2 disc cd of that release. It was recorded in Memphis, Clarksdale, Ms. & Oxford, Ms. Also, in the dvd, you get to watch Elvis & the Imposters perform some of their "rock" classics.

You get a special guest artist: EmmyLou Harris (She & Elvis do some great duets). You get a basic song set of 20 songs, plus 4 more bonus songs.
You also get an "outstanding" special feature where Elvis & Pete Thomas take a Road Trip Documentary "Off the Beaten Path" They are in a 1950'S cadillac with a Chaufeur. They travel through Memphis, the Mississippi Delta (including Clarksdale, MS), and Helena, Arkansas (They cross the Mississpi River). Then they venture back into Mississippi and into the Mississippi "Hill Country" and go to Oxford, MS (the home of Ole Miss).

This is an outstanding concert dvd with excellent bonus material, and I highly, gladly recommend it. Thanks!!!!

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Summary of Elvis Costello & the Imposters: Club Date - Live in Memphis [Blu-ray]

Recorded in autumn 2004, this concert is the first in our Club Date series. It features songs from across Elvis Costello?'s glittering career, from Waiting For The End Of The World from his debut album, through The Delivery Man, the title track of his most recent. It includes hits such as Radio Radio, Alison, Peace, Love And Understanding and Pump It Up alongside classic album tracks and new songs. Highlights include three duets with the great Emmylou Harris on I Still Miss Someone, Wheels and Heart Shaped Bruise.

Tracklisting:
1. Waiting for the End of the World 2. Radio Radio 3. Mystery Dance 4. Blue Chair 5. Bedlam 6. Country Darkness 7. Blame it on Cain 8. Either Side of the Same Town 9. High Fidelity 10. The Judgement 11. Monkey to Man 12. The Monkey 13. I Still Miss Someone (with Emmylou Harris) 14. Heart Shaped Bruise (with Emmylou Harris) 15. Wheels (with Emmylou Harris) 16. The Delivery Man 17. Hidden Charms 18. Alison / Suspicious Minds 19. Peace, Love and Understanding 20. Pump It Up

Bonus Features:
?. Full performances of: My Baby?'s Gone (with Emmylou Harris), There?'s A Story In Your Voice, Button My Lip, Sleepless Nights (with Emmylou Harris). ?. ?"Off The Beaten Path?" - 52 minute ?"Road Trip?" documentary with Elvis and Pete. ?. Radio And The Fan.

Elvis Costello and his band pull off a deft bit of alchemy with Club Date - Live in Memphis, a 2004 show that mixes some of his oldest songs with some of his newest. That's quite a range, as Costello has been at it since the mid-'70s (as have drummer Pete Thomas and keyboardist Steve Nieve, who were once Attractions and are now Imposters); performing for a lucky few hundred souls at the Hi Tone Cafe, he dusts off several chestnuts from the early days, including "Mystery Dance," "Pump It Up," "Alison," and "Radio Radio," all of which sound great. In fact, although Costello is decades past the angry young man period that spawned those classics, the guy still knows how to rock, with a raunchy sound dominated by his own elementary but effective guitar playing and Thomas' tireless pounding. The quartet (bass player Davey Faragher is the fourth member) also draws heavily on The Delivery Man, performing no less than ten tunes from the CD that was his most recent at the time of this gig. Meanwhile, Emmylou Harris turns up for three duets (plus one bonus track) with Elvis, among which are Gram Parsons' "Wheels" and Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone;" the pair sound good, albeit a little too quavery for some tastes. A nearly hour-long documentary in which Costello and Thomas visit some Memphis landmarks (as well as Oxford, Mississippi, where The Delivery Man was recorded) rounds out a great-looking (in High Definition), great-sounding disc sure to satisfy the faithful--and many others as well. --Sam Graham

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