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<center><h3> Elvis Costello's 'Solo' tour a master class in{{nb}}writing </h3></center> | |||
<center><h3> Elvis Costello's ' | |||
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For this year's run, which comes to the Louisville Palace Tuesday, he's added a subtitle: "The Last Year of My Youth" acknowledges his pending 60th birthday in August. | For this year's run, which comes to the Louisville Palace Tuesday, he's added a subtitle: "The Last Year of My Youth" acknowledges his pending 60th birthday in August. | ||
"I only officially attached that to the two shows I played at | "I only officially attached that to the two [[Concert 2014-06-24 New York|shows]] I played at Carnegie Hall, but in my mind it's the subtitle to the entire adventure. As time goes on, you've got to have a sense of humor about it," said Costello, a gregarious conversationalist who seems to have a sense of humor about quite a few things. | ||
"Whenever I was approaching any significant birthday from the time I was 18, friends would ring me up and go, 'Are you all right?' as if you were about to fall off a cliff because you were no longer 20, or 40 and so on. So here I am approaching a number that people are fearful about and I go, 'What the hell? I'm alive and doing the thing I wanted to do.' | "Whenever I was approaching any significant birthday from the time I was 18, friends would ring me up and go, 'Are you all right?' as if you were about to fall off a cliff because you were no longer 20, or 40 and so on. So here I am approaching a number that people are fearful about and I go, 'What the hell? I'm alive and doing the thing I wanted to do.' | ||
"I'm playing the Carnegie, | "I'm playing the Carnegie, the Palace in Louisville, the Ryman. These are places of dreams." | ||
Costello is performing alone save for his guitars, and thinks that people have some knee-jerk misconceptions about solo acoustic tours, expecting them to be quiet, ballad-laden affairs. Think again. Costello can attack a song just fine all by himself. | Costello is performing alone save for his guitars, and thinks that people have some knee-jerk misconceptions about solo acoustic tours, expecting them to be quiet, ballad-laden affairs. Think again. Costello can attack a song just fine all by himself. | ||
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"All kinds of music" is a neat summation of Costello's monumentally creative career, which has spanned nearly 40 years and 30 studio albums, many of them classics. He has explored the worlds of rock, country, jazz, film soundtracks, hip-hop, string quartets and orchestral music. | "All kinds of music" is a neat summation of Costello's monumentally creative career, which has spanned nearly 40 years and 30 studio albums, many of them classics. He has explored the worlds of rock, country, jazz, film soundtracks, hip-hop, string quartets and orchestral music. | ||
It would take a week's worth of shows to scratch the surface, and that wouldn't even touch on the 45 new songs he's written with | It would take a week's worth of shows to scratch the surface, and that wouldn't even touch on the 45 new songs he's written with Burt Bacharach for a pair of musicals. To call Costello the pre-eminent songwriter of his generation is a bit of an understatement. | ||
He began in 1977 with | He began in 1977 with ''My Aim Is True'', an album of exquisite songwriting delivered with quick-witted vehemence. He averaged more than an album per year over the next decade, and many are considered milestones: ''This Year's Model'', ''Armed Forces'', ''King of America'', ''Imperial Bedroom'', ''Blood & Chocolate''. | ||
Costello was practically machine-gunning songs, and while his pace has slowed to something a bit more human since the late 1980s, he continues to set the standard. Albums such as | Costello was practically machine-gunning songs, and while his pace has slowed to something a bit more human since the late 1980s, he continues to set the standard. Albums such as ''All This Useless Beauty'', ''Painted From Memory'', ''Momofuku'' and last year's ''Wise Up Ghost'', a collaboration with [[The Roots]], all sparkle in different ways. | ||
So putting together a solo show that rocks isn't a stretch. | So putting together a solo show that rocks isn't a stretch. | ||
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"I really enjoyed those shows, and it felt like it was getting progressively more intense, so we'll start from there and go up." | "I really enjoyed those shows, and it felt like it was getting progressively more intense, so we'll start from there and go up." | ||
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'''ELVIS COSTELLO 'SOLO' | |||
'''WHEN:''' 8 p.m. Tuesday | |||
'''WHERE:''' Louisville Palace, 625 S. Fourth St. | |||
'''COST:''' $29.50, $39.50, $49.50, $69.50, $85, available at the venue, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com and by phone, (800) 745-3000. | |||
COST: $29.50, $39.50, $49.50, $69.50, $85, available at the venue, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com and by phone, (800) 745-3000. | |||
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[[Jeffrey Lee Puckett]] | [[Jeffrey Lee Puckett]] profiles Elvis Costello ahead of his solo concert, Tuesday [[Concert 2014-06-17 Louisville|June 17, 2014]], Louisville Palace, Louisville, KY. | ||
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