Elvis Costello fans: Obscure question...

[CanuckAmok]

On Blood and Chocolate (the CD version), there's a Spanish guitar-driven song called "Big Nothing", which is basically a story about a clockwork cowboy toy. It's Track #17 if you want to get specific.

Is the singer on that track Barry Adamson of the Bad Seeds, or is it someone else?

I say it's Adamson.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

1. I'm a big Costello fan

but I have NO earthly idea. This is not one of my favorite albums though.

[CanuckAmok]

2. Nor was it mine.... but it's been in constant rotation around here lately

It's really growing on me... it only took, like, eighteen years.

I still don't like his ersatz-Motown production, though.

[nine23]

3. I think this tune was also on the "Straight To Hell" soundtrack...

So, could it be: Shane MacGowan? Pray For Rain? (worked on all the Alex Cox films). Joe Strummer?

Damn fine trivia question. Adamson's a good guess tho...he's right in there with all the above. Check your liner notes, doood...

[CanuckAmok]

4. Unfortunately, I lost the liner notes.

I think progmom stole them.

[nine23]

7. Regardless who's singing it,

...it's become one of our all-time favourite campfire tunes. Ya know, sitting around late at night up in the mountains in the Kootenays, raging drunk and high, grizzlies and mountain goats rustling in the bush: Make up yer own verse, then..."Big Nothing..."

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Liner notes here:

http://www.luckygoon.com/HTML/Recordings/Lyrics/blood.htm As I read it, he and Cait did the vocals.

[CanuckAmok]

6. "Sy Richardson"

One of the desperados in "Straight to Hell"

[nine23]

8. So, I was on the right track...good trivia question, bud...

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