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Costello concert offers new sound
Robert Philpot
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GRAND PRAIRIE — Whenever pop artists mess with their signature sound in concert, they're taking a risk of chasing people to the beer stand or, worse, chasing them out well before the show ends, disappointed and upset that they'd just blown some major bucks.
But Elvis Costello fans should expect risk by now: He has spent a good deal of his 30-year-plus career exploring different genres, whether it be classical, late-night crooning, Burt Bacharach pop or the bluegrass-inflected material on his latest album, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane.
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Who was that kid with Elvis Costello?
Robert Philpot
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People who stayed through the encore of Elvis Costello's show Wednesday night (reviewed on this page) might be wondering about Jaden, the guitar-wielding little boy Costello brought up onstage and serenaded with Alison during the encore. Well, we were wondering, and here's what we found out, courtesy of Jaden's mom, Shauna Butterfield of Arlington:
"Aden turned 2 in May and has loved Elvis since he was a year [old]," Butterfield said in an e-mail. "He started watching [Costello's Sundance Channel show] Spectacle and that was it!! He sits for hours, sets up his microphone, gets his hat, guitar and even his drum set and sits and teaches himself to play, watching everything he does!! It's crazy. I try to get him to watch anything else but he won't have it! He knows the words to his songs and everything, it really is amazing how into it he is for being so young!!" Some people are just born with good taste.
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Photo by Kelley Chinn.
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