VOLUME 9 The Coward Brothers 3rd Reunion Tour

In November 1984, Howard Coward and his brother Henry embarked upon a reunion tour playing all of their smash hits to a captivated audience...

1. Twist And Shout - The Isley Brothers
2. His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley
3. She's A Woman - The Beatles
4. I Got Loaded - Los Lobos
5. Don't Get Above Your Raising - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
6. Ragged But Right - George Jones
7. She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
8. Somebody's Back In Town - The Wilburn Brothers
9. Tom Dooley - Doc Watson
10. The Wild Side Of Life - Hank Thompson
11. Image Of Me - Conway Twitty
12. Mental Revenge - Waylon Jennings
13. Baby's In Black - The Beatles
14. Tennessee Blues - Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson
15. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me -Hank Williams
16. I'll Make It All Up To You - Jerry Lee Lewis
17. No Reason To Quit - Merle Haggard
18. The End Of The Rainbow - Richard & Linda Thompson
19. My Youngest Son - Eric Bogle
20. Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
21. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know - Johnny Cash
22. Shake Yourself Loose - T Bone Burnett
23. From a Jack To A King - Jim Reeves
24. Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles
25. Midnight Oil - Barbara Mendrell
26. Living A Little, Laughing A Little - The (Detroit) Spinners
27. All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

RUNNING TIME 77:44

Track Notes

1,2, 6-10 & 13-15 The Coward Brothers 1984-86. It was a tough call which version of ‘Twist And Shout’ to include here, The 1961 original by The Top Notes ? The Beatles ?... in the end I went for The Isley Brothers version.

2-3 Performed live with The Attractions 1986.
4 Guest appearance with Los Lobos, London May 1985
5 Guest appearance with Ricky Skaggs, London May 1985 http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Don%27t_Get_Above_Your_Raising
11,12, 16, 22 & 25 From Costello’s 1984 solo tour.
15 b-side to the Coward’s 1985 single ‘The People’s Limousine’.
17 Played at a miner’s benefit with The Attractions, London 1985
18 A demo version of this with unauthorised overdubs was released on a charity album in 1986. http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/End_Of_The_Rainbow
19 Another demo from this period that didn’t make the cut from The King of America sessions.
20 Played with his father Ross in a 1985 TV appearance
21 Tom Waits & Lou Reed joined Elvis for a live version of this in 1986
23-24 Audience singalongs and crowd banter from 1986
26 Duet appearance with John Hiatt on his 1985 single.
27 Performed for the first and last time solo, at Live Aid, London 1985.