Stephen King Casts Musicians in Ghost Brothers

Posted: January 6th, 2010 at 10:29 am | By: Alison Bonaguro

In a new theatrical collaboration from John Mellencamp and Stephen King titled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Rosanne Cash and Kris Kristofferson will be married. Mellencamp will be their son. Elvis Costello will be some sort of devil and King will play Uncle Steve. Sheryl Crow and several other singer-songwriters will be in there somehow, too. Only on Broadway, right? Not this time. This crazy scenario may take the stage someday, perhaps in Atlanta, but pretty soon it will be debuting right in your CD player, with an album produced by T Bone Burnett and a companion book. King and Mellencamp are an unlikely pair, that's for sure. But it makes me so curious to get my hands on this project -- one that King's Web site describes as an "experience more akin to listening to an old radio show with music."

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Filed Under: Albums, News, Songs

Tags: Book, Elvis Costello, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, John Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Play, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Stephen King, T. Bone Burnett, Theater

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Sherry Latimer says:

Posted: January 6th, 2010 at 11:51 am

Where and when can we get this?
Ham says:

Posted: January 6th, 2010 at 5:59 pm

If Roseanne Cash is part of this, I’m on it.
Redmaz says:

Posted: January 6th, 2010 at 6:50 pm

With the list of Americana artists featured on this project, I will be checking it out also.