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Real country music is not the sole domain of Americans (or even North Americans).\u00a0 Ferheavensake, various facets and forerunners of American country music originated<\/em> in Scotland, England and Ireland, amongst others.\u00a0 It’s no wonder that many folks from the United Kingdom, Australia, various other Anglophone countries, and even non-Anglophonic countries\u00a0 have taken to country music and adopted it as their own.<\/p>\n One such adopter is the great music omnivore, Elvis Costello.\u00a0 Though we know many differ, we love Costello’s voice and\u00a0 phrasing, and his way with songs of any and all music genres.\u00a0 Costello has been a huge proponent and lover of real country music for decades, going so far as to record an entire album of country music covers in 1981 on his record, “Almost Blue” and subsequently recording and performing various other real-country songs.\u00a0 As an aside, The New Yorker <\/em>has a worthwhile profile of Costello in its November 8, 2010 issue, in which the author touts Costello’s deep and superior knowledge of American music.<\/p>\n And here on the song Brown and Blue <\/em>from that record, Costello covers a song made famous by George Jones (more on Jones another time), a song that has all the elements of great country music:\u00a0 heartbreak expressed in common-man terms (but with the occasional clever\u00a0 turn-of-the-phrase, as here), with fundamental instrumentation and heartfelt delivery.\u00a0 Elvis was recently divorced when he recorded this song, so it’s no wonder his vocals ring particularly true.<\/p>\n Listen in to Elvis Costello singing real country music below.<\/p>\n Elvis Costello–Brown to Blue<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n We like the chorus:<\/p>\n “I couldn’t help my tears from falling on the courtroom floor Real country music is not the sole domain of Americans (or even North Americans).\u00a0 Ferheavensake, various facets and forerunners of American country music originated in Scotland, England and Ireland, amongst others.\u00a0 It’s no wonder that many folks from the United Kingdom, Australia, various other Anglophone countries, and even non-Anglophonic countries\u00a0 have taken to country music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/elviscostello_01-400x600.jpg\" "\\"elviscostello_01\\"")
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\nMy love, they took away my right to love you anymore
\nMy world just seemed to stop as I stood there so close to you
\nYou changed your name from Brown to Jones and mine from Brown to Blue”<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-06-Brown-To-Blue.mp3|titles=1-06 Brown To Blue]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"