Costello alone wrote the title track, premiering at a benefit concert at Town Hall that September, and its angry account of the flood that wrecked New Orleans provides a touchstone for the other five new songs here, all co-written with Toussaint. Initially, the plan was for the collaboration to be a songbook album, with Costello and Toussaint performing some highlights from Allen's rich songbook, and while the record bears some remnants of that blueprint - seven of its 13 songs were written by Toussaint in the '60s and '70s - the finished work evolved into an elegant, eloquent protest album crafted out of old songs and new. That kick-started the album that became The River in Reverse. They've collaborated before - Toussaint wrote horn charts for Costello's 1989 album Spike - but neither had plans to work together until they appeared together at several benefit concerts for the victims of Katrina in September of 2005. Indeed, it's quite likely that this collaboration between Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint would not even have occurred if it weren't for that cataclysmic event.
It's impossible to consider The River in Reverse without taking the devastation Hurricane Katrina wreaked upon New Orleans into account. Curta este álbum nos aplicativos Qobuz com a sua assinatura
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