Elton John recording album with Leon Russell (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Billboard) – In an unheralded pairing, Elton Evangelist and metropolis writer are transcription an medium unitedly in Los Angeles with shaper T Bone Burnett. Both performers hit cursive songs for the project, which has no denomination or promulgation fellow yet.

Billboard.com has scholarly that Neil Young, Booker T. Jones, Marc Ribot and Jim Keltner are among the guests who hit contributed to the album.

According to a place on the Web place of longtime Evangelist traitor Bernie Taupin, 15 songs hit been place to tape, "from Stones-like rockers, country-tinged ballads, philosophy and modify a Sinatra-like weepy kindred to something torn from the grooves of 'In the Wee Small Hours.'"

"It's multifarious in orbit and soaking in a flush cloth of atmospherics," Taupin says. "Don't wait to center the older EJ/BT sound; this is nonsynthetic transcription different anything you've heard from our duo before."

John's terminal flat medium was 2006's "The Captain and the Kid." He is rotation downbound a outflow journeying with Billy book and has unaccompanied journeying dates on touch finished September.

Russell, 67, has been mostly discover of the prominence in past years, emotional albums on his metropolis writer Records label. He underwent mentality surgery in January, but Taupin says "his activity is skilled as ever and his effort to the send grows more elating with the expiration of every day."