- Record Label: Verve Forecast
- Release Date: Jun 6, 2006
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Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings
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MattKJul 5, 2006What a great collaboration. Top it off with a live performance and you've got the very best that music can offer. Costello's vocals and Toussaints arrangements will live a long time.
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AndrewRJun 7, 2006
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JedZepAug 31, 2006What a great pairing at any time but certainly sounds right and righteous in light of Katrina. Bears repeated listening all the way through. It covers a lot of musical ground while not straying far from New Orleans.
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ImanLJun 16, 2006I dont know squat about Toussaint but Costello's best in years and years and years maybe since "For the Stars" (another collaboration: hmmmmmmmm). "Brother" is just plain great, title track masterful, and the playing livly and fun.
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PaulSJun 14, 2006One of Costeelo's good excursions outside his original genre (The juliet Letters being one of the bad ones). The piano shines and the music is just fun.
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BrandonSJun 6, 2006A lot of reviews call Costello overbearing or somehow otherwise in the way - but would they even be reviewing it if Costello weren't involved? It just seems to me that these music critics jump at every opportunity they get to showcase their elitism. This is a good cd, with a number of excellent songs, played with a lot of energy and feeling.
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It's Toussaint's soulful songs and naturally funky grooves that make this unlikely pairing work almost in spite of Costello's overbearing presence.
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It's the master's steady, rollicking piano that elevates the music -- and keeps the ever-elusive Costello honest.
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This album is best heard through audio equipment tweaked to suppress the excesses of Elvis Costello's strained bleat.