Label: | Lost Highway |
Genre: | Pop/Rock |
Product No.: |
ALOS 61401
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UPC: | 602527705538 |
Availability: | Back Ordered |
Category: |
Vinyl Record |
No. of Discs: | 2 |
With The Delivery Man — Elvis Costello and the Imposters' first release for Lost Highway — one of modern music's most admired and prolific talents has delivered a remarkable album that draws on deep American musical roots more than any of his releases since King of America in 1986. It is a collection that ranges from the ferocious, bass-driven opening track, "Button My Lip," which speaks in the voice of a desperate man on the verge of committing a terrible crime, to a tender and timely closing rendition of "The Scarlet Tide," referred to by Costello’s co-composer and fellow Oscar nominee T-Bone Burnett as an "anti-fear song."
Like a lot of great things in music history, The Delivery Man can be said to have started with the late great Johnny Cash. "The Delivery Man is actually a character imported from a song I wrote in 1986 for Johnny Cash," Costello explains. "He's based on a real character. I read this story in the paper about a man who confessed to murdering his childhood friend thirty years later, having been in prison for a number of other things. I thought this story was very interesting because he'd carried this burden of guilt of this childhood crime."
![]() | 1. Button My Lip |
![]() | 2. Country Darkness |
![]() | 3. There's A Story In Your Voice |
![]() | 4. Either Side Of The Same Town |
![]() | 5. Bedlam |
![]() | 6. The Delivery Man |
![]() | 7. Monkey To Man |
![]() | 8. Nothing Clings Like Ivy |
![]() | 9. The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love |
![]() | 10. Heart Shaped Bruise |
![]() | 11. She's Pulling Out The Pin |
![]() | 12. Needle Time |
![]() | 13. The Judgement |
![]() | 14. The Scarlet Tide |
![]() | 15. The Monkey |
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