CD REVIEW: Various Artists, Another Day, Another Time (Nonesuch)

Only in the world of T-Bone Burnett could you encounter Elvis Costello depping for Justin Timberlake in a live recreation of a cod-sixties slice of skiffle gleaned from a movie by those maverick Coen Brothers in front of a capacity house in New York City's Town Hall. The world would be a much duller place without him for sure. This eventful double disc set records an evening last autumn celebrating the soundscore of the Coen's last feature, the Greenwich Village-set Inside Llewyn Davis. Basically it was an excuse to gather together some survivors of the era depicted in the movie (Joan Baez, Bob Neuwirth), those whose own success owes not a little to their pioneering work (Costello, Gillian Welch, Jack White, Marcus Mumford), newer talent heading down related roads

(Secret Sisters, Lake Street Dive, Rhiannon Giddens) and some of the cast of the film (Oscar Isaac, aka Llewyn Davis, and Carey Mulligan, aka Mrs Mumford). Ms Mulligan's contribution, in trio with Giddens and Welch, is a highlight, but so are Welch and Giddens's own contributions, with those of White and the Punch Brothers not far behind. But the Costello and cast version of the score's hit, Please Mr Kennedy, is worth the purchase price alone.

Keith Bruce