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Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man

By Andria Lisle on 12:00 AM on October 1, 2004

Unfold your beat-up road atlas, draw a line from Elvis Presley’s birthplace in Tupelo to his grave in Memphis and you’ll find that the hamlet of Oxford... read more

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Elvis Costello Keeps Busy

By Paste Staff on 12:00 AM on May 21, 2004

Elvis Costello is completing work on two new albums for simultaneous release this fall. He's now recording an album with The Imposters in Oxford, Miss., and Memphis, Tenn., for Lost Highway Records. The other forthcoming recording, Il Sogno, was composed solely by Costello and is his first full-length orchestral work. It was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson-Thomas and will be released on Deutsche Grammophon. A bonus live disc from Costello's performance at the this summer's North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands will also be included. In addition to his recording duties, Costello is currently... read more

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20 Signs of Life From 2003

By Matt Fink on 12:00 AM on January 16, 2004

The latest rebound in a career that’s been defined by its action/reaction dichotomy, North further cements Elvis Costello’s standing as one of his generation’s most profoundly exploratory songwriters. Proving he wasn’t finished working through his Burt Bacharach fixation, Costello goes full-blown piano balladeer on the new record, the final product falling somewhere between sophisticated pop classicism and a timeless show-tune song cycle. The avid fan will be quick to see evidence of Costello’s romance with jazz-pop princess Diana Krall in both the carefully sculpted arrangements and the hopefully romantic bent of the songwriting. But Costello’s gift for measured idealism, artful... read more

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Elvis Costello - North

By Tim Porter on 12:00 AM on October 1, 2003

Elvis Costello refuses to stay in one place too long. He could have made a career of recycling the classic pop melodies and arrangements of My Aim Is True, but instead he chose to continually redefine his music with increasingly radical departures... read more

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