The first edition in The Costello Show live performance series of complete concerts featuring Elvis Costello finds one of the most eclectic and acclaimed artists at the fiery start of his career. Live at the El Mocambo was recorded March 7, 1978 at the sold-out El Mocambo in Toronto, Canada and broadcast live by CHUM-FM. At the time, the band was touring North America in support of My Aim is True, Costello's 1977 debut. The raw, energetic live performance in the midst of th   [ read more ]

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Two years after his hugely successful Warner Brothers debut, Spike, Costello released Mighty Like a Rose, which echoed Spike in its diversity, yet it was a darker, more challenging record. A densely arranged masterpiece full of effects and layered guitar tracks. A must-own for any Costello fan!

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Spike was one of Elvis Costello's most wonderfully diverse musical offerings ever...and that's saying a lot given the experimental approach toward music he regularly undertook. "Throughout his career Elvis Costello has always been prolific; thus it was surprising, even given the change in record labels for the US, when he took a whole 20 months between Blood and Chocolate and this follow-up. But the musical growth he exhibits makes the wait worthwhile. The musical settings range fr   [ read more ]

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Elvis Costello's tenure with Warner Brother's records marks some of the most diverse musical offerings of his career, from the impossibly catchy "Veronica" (his biggest U.S. hit) to the dark and sober "So Like Candy." This collection compiles his mature songwriting and stellar recordings from his Warner Brothers era.

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Comes in a gate-fold sleeve. The record was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded by Mike Piersante during a three day session at Nashiville's Sound Emporium Studio in 2009. Joining Costello were Jerry Douglas on dobro, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Mike Compton on mandolin, Jeff Taylor on accordion and Dennis Crouch on double bass, some of the most highly regarded recording artist and musicians in traditional American country music, bluegrass and beyond.

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Import-only release - Rhino scratched their plans to release this domestically. Affordably priced collection of classic singles. This first volume contains 27 tracks, all of the cuts from the original 7 inch & 12 inch formats, from 12 singles Elvis released 1977-1980. Three of the cuts are exclusively appearing on CD here for the first time ever --and will not be included on any of Rhino 's subsequent remastered reissues in the U.S. Each disc comes in a full color slipcase sleeve with the original artwork i   [ read more ]

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In the middle of 1978, it would be easy to understand why Nick Kent, noted music journalist for the NME, would come to anoint Elvis Costello with the dubious moniker Horn Rims From Hell. Having just completed a barnstorming first ever tour of the US of A, which included enduring a week long visit from none other than Geraldo Rivera (?!), Elvis was done with being polite. His timid by comparison 1977 debut MY AIM IS TRUE, would become a distant memory, replaced by the far less kind and gentle racket    [ read more ]

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Import-only release - Rhino scratched their plans to release this domestically. Affordably priced collection of classic singles. This third volume contains 37 tracks, all of the cuts from the original 7 inch & 12 inch formats, from 11 singles Elvis released 1983-1987. 11 of the cuts are exclusively appearing on CD here for the first time ever --and will not be included on any of Rhino 's subsequent remastered reissues in the U.S. Each disc come s in a full color slipcase sleeve with the original artwork int   [ read more ]

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North, Elvis Costello's 20th album of new material, follows the deliberately classicist When I Was Cruel by a mere year, but it feels more the sequel to 1998's Burt Bacharach collaboration, Painted From Memory, or even 1993's roundly ignored classical pop experiment, The Juliet Letters. Costello has abandoned clanging guitars and drums of Cruel -- abandoned rock & roll, really -- to return to a set of classically influenced songs, all "composed, arranged and conducted" by the m   [ read more ]

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Elvis Costello assembled this compilation himself. It is highly idiosyncratic, not the least of its peculiarities being that the CD and cassette versions differ considerably. Costello describes a vague concept in his notes, but the collection of songs (47 on the CDs, 51 on the cassettes) seems a jumble. At least he demonstrates that songs from different periods work well together. A large part of Costello's oeuvre, including some of his best work, is represented. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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Elvis Costello's collaboration with Burt Bacharach produced the exquisite Painted From Memory, an unabashedly classicist pop album that recalled Bacharach's heyday with Hal David. It was such an individual album, unlike anything in Costello's catalog, that it's a wonder that the same batch of songs could produce another album as equally compelling and unique, which is exactly what Bill Frisell's The Sweetest Punch is. Costello sent Frisell demos of every song on {^Painted From    [ read more ]

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