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Tomorrow's Blues
Composer: Robert Hunter / Elvis Costello

Tomorrow's Blues is a song written by Elvis Costello with lyrics supplied by Robert Hunter. Elvis Costello explains the origins of the song on his website:
I found myself touring with a wonderful acoustic group called The Sugarcanes between 2008 and 2010. We performed the Hunter/Garcia song, Friend Of The Devil, alongside the Keith Richards song, Happy and George Jones' The Race Is On, as well as many of the country-soul songs that I'd attempted to write over the years.

That band included my friend Jim Lauderdale, who composed many wonderful tunes with Robert Hunter, Black Roses and High Timberline being among my favourites. It was Jim who put me in touch with Robert with a view to us writing a song together.

We never actually met in person but our song, Tomorrow's Blues was the vivid result of letters and telephone conversations, calculations and negotiations.

As yet, the song remains unrecorded but I debuted it at Preservation Hall West, San Francisco for the Richard de Lone Special Housing Fund in a show with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller and Austin de Lone with special guest, Bill Kirchen.

At the time of writing the song is still unrecorded.



There are no official recordings of Tomorrow's Blues.