DIVING BOARD,THE 01/13/2015 Simon Efemey

Simon Efemey

GREATEST HITS: 19 KIDS is a slightly expanded version of the similarly named GREATEST HITS: 18 KIDS

BORBOLETTA has the aesthetic and thematic continuity of one

this track was so inspired as action music that a big chunk of it was used as the opening and closing theme music of a local television news show in New York for decades

Audio Remasterer: Ivan Joseph Goldberg

DIVING BOARD,THE 01/13/2015 Simon EfemeySo the story goes like this. Inspired by their work on the Leon Russell duet album The Union, producer T Bone Burnett encouraged Elton John to return to making albums like he used to in the old days for 2013's The Diving Board, harking back to the days when he wrote quickly and recorded with little more than a rhythm section. This all sounds like a major shift in aesthetic for John, but Elton has been on a decade long quest to tap into that old magic,