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In college – doing exactly what I do now, writing about music (though for the mighty Baylor Lariat, with about five more pounds of hair and 40 less pounds of stomach) – I reviewed Elvis Costello’s first album, “My Aim is True.”
I killed it, suggesting moronically and in painfully overwritten fashion that music fans will “drown in a toxic New Wave.” I remember that exact phrase because …
What an idiot! (Me, not Elvis.)
Mercifully, I soon tucked my rat-like tail betwixt my legs and climbed aboard the E Train. Here we are, 45 years later, and Costello and his latest band, the Imposters, are still delivering the goods in fine fashion.
The new album, “The Boy Named If,” is stuffed with brightly melodic, urgent and sharply clever tunes – the sort you’d instantly welcome in concert along with the older favorites.
Here’s your chance. Costello and the Imposters appear Saturday in the Premier Theater at Foxwoods.
Elvis Costello and the Imposters, 8 p.m. Saturday, Premier Theater, Foxwoods; $45-$75; www.foxwoods.com.
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