Elvis Costello and T Bone reunite as The Coward Brothers for brand spanking new album and Audible venture

Elvis Costello and T Bone have reunited as The Coward Brothers for a brand new album and audio sequence venture with Audible.

The duo aren’t any strangers to working collectively, with Burnett co-producing Costello’s 1986 album ‘King Of America’ – which is about to get a deluxe reissue. Previous to that, they joined forces for the 1985 single ‘The Individuals’s Limousine’, which they launched because the Coward Brothers.

Now, forty years later, they’ve introduced the return of the Coward Brothers with a brand new scripted comedy podcast and album. The True Story of The Coward Brothers, a three-part Audible Unique audio sequence, will recount the historical past of pop stars and brothers Henry and Howard Coward – performed by Costello and T Bone – as they bitterly recall their experiences within the music business, together with being duped out of their royalties by a cutthroat supervisor and being persuaded to faux their very own deaths.

The sequence will premiere on Audible on November 21, and will probably be accompanied by a brand new 20-track album by the 2 musicians. You possibly can pre-order the album here and take a look at the primary single ‘At all times’ under.

In a press launch, Costello mentioned: “With regard to the ludicrous assertion that this particular person, Howard Coward, and I are one and the identical, I’ve to say: that is the work of a bounder, a rounder and a charlatan, and I shall be inspecting my authorized choices forthwith.”

In the meantime, T Bone added: “I’ve a imprecise recollection of shopping for a forty five of the music Pure Bubblegum by an act known as The Coward Brothers many lengthy years in the past. I heard it on a Fort Price radio station known as KXOL, billed as ‘the brand new music.’ The disc jockey performed it as soon as and bought such a nasty response from listeners that they burned it the subsequent morning in entrance of the station. What ever occurred to these guys – are they nonetheless alive?”

In different information, Costello just lately joined a bunch of different musicians, together with Billie Eilish, Robert Smith, Stevie Surprise and Nicki Minaj, in signing an open letter warning towards the “predatory” use of AI in music. The April letter got here from the Artist Rights Alliance was titled ‘Cease Devaluing Music’ and may be learn in full here.