The Sweetest Punch

Infobox Album
Name = The Sweetest Punch: The New Songs of Costello and Bacharach
Type = Studio album
Artist = Elvis Costello and Bill Frisell


Released = September 21 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Rock/Jazz
Length = 64:09
Label = Decca Records/Universal Classics
Producer = Lee Townsend
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:y9j9kemtaq7c link]
Chronology = Elvis Costello
Last album = "Painted from Memory"
(1998)
This album = "The Sweetest Punch"
(1999)
Next album = "For the Stars"
(2001)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Bill Frisell
Type =studio
Last album = "Painted from Memory"
(1998)
This album ="The Sweetest Punch"
(1999)
Next album = ???

The Sweetest Punch is a 1999 album by Elvis Costello and Bill Frisell, released as a companion album to 1998's "Painted from Memory". Many of the earlier album's songs are featured with new arrangements by Frisell, and mostly in instrumental versions. In addition to Frisell on electric and acoustic guitars, instrumentalists performing on "The Sweetest Punch" include:

* Brian Blade — drums, percussion
* Don Byron — clarinet, bass clarinet
* Billy Drewes — alto saxophone
* Curtis Fowlkes — trombone
* Viktor Krauss — bass
* Ron Miles — trumpet

Vocals for three of the tracks are also featured, with Costello on "Toledo", Cassandra Wilson on "Painted From Memory", and Costello and Wilson in a duet on "I Still Have That Other Girl".

Toutes les chansons ont été écrites par Elvis Costello et Burt Bacharach, sauf "Vamp Dolice" (piste 8).
# "The Sweetest Punch" - 4:44
# "Toledo" - 5:25
# "Such Unlikely Lovers" - 5:43
# "This House Is Empty Now" - 5:03
# "Painted from Memory" - 4:10
# "What's Her Name Today?" - 4:58
# "In the Darkest Place" - 5:55
# "Vamp Dolice" - 3:25
# "My Thief" - 4:31
# "I Still Have That Other Girl" - 2:22
# "Painted from Memory (Reprise)" - 3:36
# "Long Division" - 3:59
# "Tears at the Birthday Party" - 3:44
# "I Still Have That Other Girl (Reprise)" - 1:52
# "God Give Me Strength" - 4:42

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