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'''Back with a rowdy new LP, Elvis Costello explains why he's addicted to work | |||
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Elvis Costello isn't sure how he'd like to you to refer to his new album, ''When I Was Cruel''. | |||
He isn't comfortable calling it his first "rock" record in a long time, though many pundits already have done so, since it's his first in eight years fired by fat guitars, crashing drums and a driving beat. | |||
"I never liked the term 'rock,'" Costello carps. "Back when rock lost the 'roll' part of it, all the sex and swing went out of it." | "I never liked the term 'rock,'" Costello carps. "Back when rock lost the 'roll' part of it, all the sex and swing went out of it." | ||
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Certainly, Costello understands how rare it is for an audience to be allowed to follow that agenda in the corporate world. But observers feel that privilege is more than justified. "He's a master songwriter, who has earned the right, and has the fans, to allow him to go whereever he wants," says Rita Houston, music director of the respected Bronx-based free-form radio station WFUV. "He loves all kinds of music without bias." | Certainly, Costello understands how rare it is for an audience to be allowed to follow that agenda in the corporate world. But observers feel that privilege is more than justified. "He's a master songwriter, who has earned the right, and has the fans, to allow him to go whereever he wants," says Rita Houston, music director of the respected Bronx-based free-form radio station WFUV. "He loves all kinds of music without bias." | ||
Better for all his songwriting output, Costello's cleverness as a lyric writer and flair for melodic hooks hasn't waned after more than 25 years at the game. | Better for all his songwriting output, Costello's cleverness as a lyric writer and flair for melodic hooks hasn't waned after more than 25 years at the game. | ||
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"The term suggests an unhealthy compulsion," he says. "But I really can't tell you a week when I've regretted it. To be in New York on Sept. 20, in that moment in the city, and record the horns for this record, and then go to L.A. to sing with the Mingus Orchestra for two of the best shows I've ever been involved in, then come back to Nashville and play with Lucinda Williams for a three-hour taping for Country Music Television ... why wouldn't I want to do that? My job is to play music." | "The term suggests an unhealthy compulsion," he says. "But I really can't tell you a week when I've regretted it. To be in New York on Sept. 20, in that moment in the city, and record the horns for this record, and then go to L.A. to sing with the Mingus Orchestra for two of the best shows I've ever been involved in, then come back to Nashville and play with Lucinda Williams for a three-hour taping for Country Music Television ... why wouldn't I want to do that? My job is to play music." | ||
But does this schedule leave Costello time for anything outside the world of song? He says he enjoys watching soccer, "though that usually involves some singing." And he likes to travel, though not to the usual places. His favorite trip was to an island near the South Pole. "To get bundled up and be surrounded by 70,000 curious penguins, that's better than drugs," he says. | But does this schedule leave Costello time for anything outside the world of song? He says he enjoys watching soccer, "though that usually involves some singing." And he likes to travel, though not to the usual places. His favorite trip was to an island near the South Pole. "To get bundled up and be surrounded by 70,000 curious penguins, that's better than drugs," he says. | ||
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*[http://www.elviscostello.info/articles/n/ny_daily_news.020414a.html | *[http://www.elviscostello.info/articles/n/ny_daily_news.020414a.html elviscostello.info] | ||
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