''The River in Reverse'' is a collaboration album by

Elvis Costello Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author and television host. According to ''Rolling Stone'', Costello "reinvigorated the literate, lyrical ...

and

Allen Toussaint Allen Richard Toussaint (; January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. He was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century, descr ...

, released in 2006. It received a

Grammy The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious a ...

nomination for

Best Pop Vocal Album The Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality vocal pop music albums. Awards in several ...

Track listing

All songs written by

unless otherwise indicated. #"On Your Way Down" – 4:54 #"Nearer to You" – 3:32 #"Tears, Tears and More Tears" – 3:30 #"The Sharpest Thorn" (

, Toussaint) – 4:16 #"Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further?" – 5:04 #"The River in Reverse" (Costello) – 4:32 #"Freedom for the Stallion" – 2:58 #"Broken Promise Land" (Costello, Toussaint) – 4:34 #"Ascension Day" ( Roy "Professor Longhair" Byrd, Costello, Toussaint) – 2:57 #"International Echo" (Costello, Toussaint) – 4:58 #"

All These Things "All These Things" is a 1962 single written by Allen Toussaint under the pseudonym of "Naomi Neville", and first recorded by Art Neville in 1962. Joe Stampley version The biggest chart hit version was performed by Joe Stampley. In 1966, The Un ...

" – 4:07 #"Wonder Woman" – 3:08 #"Six-Fingered Man" (Costello, Toussaint) – 4:31 #"The Greatest Love" – 3:47 (Japanese CD bonus track) #"Where Is the Love" (Costello, Toussaint) – 3:54 (iTunes bonus track)

Personnel

– acoustic and electric guitars,

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...

, tambourine, vocals,

tremolo In music, ''tremolo'' (), or ''tremolando'' (), is a trembling effect. There are multiple types of tremolo: a rapid repetition of a note, an alternation between two different notes, or a variation in volume. Tremolos may be either ''measured'' ...

– electric piano, vocals and backing vocals, horn arrangements * Sam Williams – trombone *Carl Blouin –

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass saxophone, bass. It is the lowe ...

*Amadee Castenell –

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Built in B♭ an octave above the tenor saxophone (or rarely, slightly small ...

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

*Brian Cayolle – baritone saxophone *Anthony "AB" Brown – guitar *

Davey Faragher David Allen "Davey" Faragher (born August 18, 1957) is an American bass guitarist from Redlands, California. Faragher's career took off and received critical notice as a founding member of the nineties band Cracker, and his subsequent work wit ...

– bass guitar, backing vocals *

Steve Nieve Steve Nieve ( "naïve"; born Stephen John Nason, 21 February 1958) is an English musician and composer. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Nieve has been a member of Elvis Costello's backing bands the Attractions and the Imposters, as w ...

– piano, Hammond organ,

clavinet The Clavinet is an electric clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds with rubber pads, each matching one of the keys and respond ...

farfisa organ Farfisa () is a manufacturer of electronics based in Osimo, Italy, founded in 1946. The company manufactured a series of compact electronic organs in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Compact, FAST, Professional and VIP ranges, and later, a s ...

* Pete Thomas – drums, percussion *

Joe Henry Joseph Lee Henry (born December 2, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He has released 15 studio albums and produced multiple recordings for other artists, including three Grammy Award-winning albums. Early life H ...

– producer

Charts

References

External links

* Elvis Costello albums Allen Toussaint albums 2006 albums Albums produced by Allen Toussaint {{2000s-pop-rock-album-stub