GITOR 'is much braver' than North , says Elvis Costello

[johnfoyle]

A interview with Elvis Costello includes this -

Within a few months of North you were involved with Diana Krall in her first self written album, The Girl In The Other Room, which is again very intimate, especially that track Departure Bay.

She lost her mother. She had a bone marrow disease. She died at 60. When some people didn’t understand why she suddenly wrote a bunch of songs — and thought it was my bad influence — she said, “Deed I Do won’t do it right now.” Departure Bay is a real place. Diana went there as a kid with her family and her mother’s ashes are scattered there... It was the beginning of our life together and there were a number of things she needed to express. She had written pieces in her journals that were lyrical in nature, but she didn’t have experience of shaping them into precise lyrical form. I added barely a word, but I edited them into singable form.

There seems to be a parallel between the two of you coming to express yourselves in a new, directly personal way during that period.

People have said to me that to some degree they’re bookends, those two records. It’s a nice compliment, but I think Diana’s is much braver, that kind of loss is the more profound experience. A while ago I took her to Ronnie Scott’s with my mother and my elder son, Matt. It was great, three generations of us together in a jazz club... I think about my family a lot now. Both my parents are 80.

The full interview -

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... php?t=6668

[christratton]

Wow. Very nice. Thank you so much, John. I grow fonder of Elvis Costello each time I hear something new about him. What a mensch!

-CS

[Samuel]

Thanks for sharing John.