Minstrels in maudlin mood. "I should have known you'd never share my name," whines Elvis Costello. Well, we can't all be called ELVIS! There is such a thing as swinging, non-po country music — I'm thinking of early Dolly Parton such as "Dumb Blonde" and "I Don't Want To Throw Rice" — but the stuff Costello is currently giving the kiss of life to is no less or more than a mawkish bore, an attempt to make a manifesto out of being another just another notch on Tammy Wynette's wardrobe.
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