Elvis Costello In Conversation With Odile W. Husband Episode Two
OWH: How much of Walter Mitty is there in the man singing “All These Strangers”?
EC: He is as much “Billy Liar” as “Walter Mitty” but I take your point. He has a vivid imagination and a score to settle.
OWH: In another way, “All These Strangers”, feels like a 40s film, perhaps with Peter Lorre, although the character in it seems to know that the past is not his friend...
Elvis Costello In Conversation With Odile W. Husband
Episode One
OWH: A wolf, perhaps the one from the cover, appears in the opening song and the closing song of “National Ransom”. Is this the same wolf? Is he somehow the master of ceremonies? Are these two songs more linked than we might imagine?
EC: Well, the two songs are set in different times but “A Voice In The Dark” surely being sung in the wake of the same catastrophe that has been repeated in “National Ransom”...
Meet Moon Conway
A 72-year-old showbiz, public relations veteran might seem an unlikely choice for oversee the output of various artist websites but as Old Moon Conway remarks, in a clearly well-rehearsed quip, “They always said I had a face for the wireless”.
Conway pushes back in a swivel chair and swings his “bad leg” onto an overflowing desk in his cell of an office...
"True Blood Volume 2" is released on May 25th
"True Blood Volume 2"
The album contains a newly recorded Lucinda Williams song, "Kiss Like Your Kiss" which features a harmony vocal from Elvis Costello.
Speaking to minister of information, The Right Reverend Jimmy Quickly, Costello said:
"This is one of the best vocal performances of Lucinda's recording career...
Elvis Costello and Imposters Play Reno
Elvis Costello and Imposters play Reno, close with "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Trust" by Roger McGuinn.
The Reno Gazette-Journal:
"British rocker Elvis Costello played to what was probably his biggest crowd ever in Reno on Saturday...90-minute show that had fans dancing in the aisles...Its the kind of sound that would go over well at the Nugget Rib Cook-off...