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"I didn't really think, 'OK, we're going to the roots now,' " Costello says. "But I know that in the last five or six years, when I've picked up the guitar, I've felt more of a relationship to the blues than I had in the past." | "I didn't really think, 'OK, we're going to the roots now,' " Costello says. "But I know that in the last five or six years, when I've picked up the guitar, I've felt more of a relationship to the blues than I had in the past." | ||
You can find the preliminary traces of evidence on 2002's ''When I Was Cruel'', his first straight rock record after a series of collaborations with pop traditionalist Burt Bacharach. Costello says that while the connections have been overlooked by many fans, a fiercely devoted bunch that doesn't miss much, he sees a direct lineage between such bare cuts as that album's "[[Dust 2...|Dust 2" and the new " | You can find the preliminary traces of evidence on 2002's ''When I Was Cruel'', his first straight rock record after a series of collaborations with pop traditionalist Burt Bacharach. Costello says that while the connections have been overlooked by many fans, a fiercely devoted bunch that doesn't miss much, he sees a direct lineage between such bare cuts as that album's "[[Dust 2...|Dust 2" and the new "Needle Time." | ||
Costello's Southern sojourn was "a chance thing," he says — much like the other stylistic twists and turns in a recent period that has seen him embrace jazz, score an Italian symphony and marry Canadian trad-pop vocalist Diana Krall. | Costello's Southern sojourn was "a chance thing," he says — much like the other stylistic twists and turns in a recent period that has seen him embrace jazz, score an Italian symphony and marry Canadian trad-pop vocalist Diana Krall. | ||
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He didn't just toy around. Resurrecting songs he'd begun writing in the late '90s, Costello headed to Clarksdale to record the storytelling fare of ''Delivery Man'', cast in the vintage musical mold of 1940s Americana. | He didn't just toy around. Resurrecting songs he'd begun writing in the late '90s, Costello headed to Clarksdale to record the storytelling fare of ''Delivery Man'', cast in the vintage musical mold of 1940s Americana. | ||
The seeds of his new summer tour were planted last fall. Performing at a tiny Memphis club with his band the Imposters — a set filmed for the new '' | The seeds of his new summer tour were planted last fall. Performing at a tiny Memphis club with his band the Imposters — a set filmed for the new ''Live in Memphis'' DVD — Costello was joined by the velvet-voiced Emmylou Harris for a five-song stretch. | ||
"The grace she brings to the stage is just something else," he says. | "The grace she brings to the stage is just something else," he says. |
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