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Elvis Costello is one of the best contemporary songwriters, and certainly the most, uh, rigorous, who also hopes to be popular. This has made for difficulties. His initial widespread acclaim, accompanied by widespread record sales, leveled off with 1980's ''Get Happy!!'' — by me, his best ever — and has never really risen above respect and admiration and modest sales since. Beginning with ''Almost Blue'', his country excursion, Costello's progress was diverted by a fascination with guises, by musical sophistication not really for its own sake but not for the sake of the songs either. Last year's solo [[:Category:1984 US Solo Tour|tour]] (with T{{nb}}Bone Burnett opening) got Costello to focus his hard-edge attention once again. As a result, ''King Of America'', produced with Burnett, is sung and played beautifully, affectingly, with the songs themselves paramount. | Elvis Costello is one of the best contemporary songwriters, and certainly the most, uh, rigorous, who also hopes to be popular. This has made for difficulties. His initial widespread acclaim, accompanied by widespread record sales, leveled off with 1980's ''Get Happy!!'' — by me, his best ever — and has never really risen above respect and admiration and modest sales since. Beginning with ''Almost Blue'', his country excursion, Costello's progress was diverted by a fascination with guises, by musical sophistication not really for its own sake but not for the sake of the songs either. Last year's solo [[:Category:1984 US Solo Tour|tour]] (with T{{nb}}Bone Burnett opening) got Costello to focus his hard-edge attention once again. As a result, ''King Of America'', produced with Burnett, is sung and played beautifully, affectingly, with the songs themselves paramount. |
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