Elvis Costello Everywhere In 2006
When Elvis sightings skyrocket in 2006, Mr. Costello’s prolific recording and touring schedule will be to blame. Costello will be releasing not one, but two new albums this year. The first, set to hit the streets Feb. 28, is concert album My Flame Burns Blue. This Deutsche Grammophon release will include a bonus 45-minute suite from Costello’s first orchestral work. The second album, The River in Reverse, is a Verve Forecast collaboration with Allen Toussaint, fruit of the first major sessions to take place in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans. Look for Elvis at a gas station near you as his national... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe Life and Music of Elvis Costello
Enigmatic rocker no less an enigma after surface-occupied biographical treatment read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsElvis Costello - King of America (Reissue)
Costello’s excursion through Americana gets the royal treatment... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsElvis Costello & The Imposters
Costello strolled in with a straw cowboy hat and smart dark suit and launched into an urgent rendition of the first song from his first album... read more
Found in: Concerts, ReviewsElvis Costello to play three dates with Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo
Elvis Costello & The Imposters will take time out from the Monkey Speaks His Mind tour to play three dates billed as "Elvis Costello and the Pick-Ups," featuring Pete Thomas, Dave Faragher and special guest Los Lobos’ Dave Hidalgo. Hildalgo first collaborated with Costello, as a harmony vocalist, on the 1986 album, King of America. On April 26, Rhino Records will release a two-CD version of the album, containing many unreleased outtakes and alternate versions plus excerpts from a live performance. Tour Dates: 4/24 - Annapolis,Md. - Rams Head Live4/26 - Norfolk, Va. - The Norva4/27 -... read more
Found in: Music, NewsElvis Costello - The Delivery Man
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
Found in: Music, ReviewsElvis Costello Keeps Busy
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
Found in: Music, News20 Signs of Life From 2003
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,... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesElvis Costello - North
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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