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Elvis Costello recording unreleased Dylan w/ Jim James & more, played Capitol Theater with the Roots (pics, setlist)

Capitol Theater photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

The Basement Tapes Band..
Basement Tapes Band

A trove of two dozen unfinished Bob Dylan songs written circa 1967 during his “Basement Tapes” period is being completed by an all-star band assembled by producer T Bone Burnett and including Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James for release as an album and Showtime special later this year.

“These are not B-level Dylan lyrics,” Burnett, 66, said Monday during a break in filming and recording sessions in Hollywood for the project titled “Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes.” [LA Times]

More information on that project, which also includes Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops) and Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), at the LA Times with the full press release pasted below.

Questlove & Elvis Costello @ the Capitol Theater – March 12, 2014
Elvis Costello and the Roots
Elvis Costello and the Roots

Meanwhile, before heading to Las Vegas to help open Peter Shapiro’s new Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas, Elvis Costello and The Roots stopped by Peter’s Port Chester, NY venue the Capitol Theater for a collaborative show in support of their new collaborative album. Some pictures and videos and the setlist from that show are here. More below…


Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Elvis Costello and The Roots — March 12, 2014
Setlist at Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, USA

Wake Me Up
Come the Meantimes
Stick Out Your Tongue
Watching the Detectives
Shabby Doll
Sugar Won’t Work
Tripwire (with Marisol Hernandez, ->)
(What’s So Funny ’bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (Brinsley Schwarz cover) (with Marisol Hernandez)
Spooky Girlfriend (with Marisol Hernandez)
Cinco Minutos Con Vos (with Marisol Hernandez)
Ghost Town (The Specials cover) (with Marisol Hernandez)
(I Don’t Want to Go To) Chelsea
Walk Us Uptown
I Want You

Encore:
Wise Up Ghost
Pump It Up (with verses of Yeh! Yeh! and Subterranean Homesick Blues)

Encore 2:
I Found Out (John Lennon cover)
Alison
Walk Us Uptown (acappella as everyone was leaving the stage)
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The Basement Tapes Band..
Basement Tapes Band

PRESS RELEASE:

Recording is nearly complete for Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes, an album project from Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops) Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons) and producer T Bone Burnett, who are in Capitol Studios together to create music for two-dozen recently discovered lyrics written by Bob Dylan in 1967 during the period that generated the recording of the legendary Basement Tapes.

The album will be released later this year by Electromagnetic Recordings/Harvest Records (Capitol Music Group), and will be accompanied by a Showtime documentary titled, Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued, directed by Sam Jones (the Wilco documentary, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart). The film will present an exclusive and intimate look at the making of Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes set against the important and historical cultural backdrop of Bob Dylan’s original Basement Tapes.

Bob Dylan’s original Basement Tapes – recorded by Dylan in 1967 with musicians who would later achieve their own fame as The Band – have fascinated and enticed successive generations of musicians, fans and cultural critics for nearly five decades. This collective recorded more than a hundred songs in the basement of a small house in upstate New York that summer and fall, including dozens of newly-written Bob Dylan future classics such as, “I Shall Be Released,” “The Mighty Quinn,” “This Wheel’s On Fire,” “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” and “Tears Of Rage.”

Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes celebrates the discovery of new Bob Dylan lyrics from that noted 1967 period and marks a unique creative opportunity for Burnett, Costello, Giddens, Goldsmith, James and Mumford, who are bringing them to life nearly 50 years later. For Burnett, whom Dylan has entrusted with this endeavor, it was imperative to provide an environment in which these artists could thrive. “Great music is best created when a community of artists gets together for the common good. There is a deep well of generosity and support in the room at all times, and that reflects the tremendous generosity shown by Bob in sharing these lyrics with us.”

According to Jones, “The discovery of these previously unknown Bob Dylan songs that were thought lost since 1967 is the stuff of Hollywood fiction and a find of truly historical proportions. It is a unique opportunity to film T Bone and these great artists as they collaborate with a young Bob Dylan, and each other, to create new songs and recordings. These days and nights in the studio have been nothing less than magical.” Jones will weave these studio sessions into a broader narrative that will incorporate the stories behind the original Basement Tapes, expound on their cultural significance and chart their enduring influence.

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