Thursday, April 02, 2009

Legendary British rocker Elvis Costello announces tour dates/new album

Elvis CostelloElvis Costello's new album 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane' will be released by Hear Music on June 2nd.

The record was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded by Mike Piersante during a three-day session at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studio.

Joining Costello were Jerry Douglas (dobro), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Mike Compton (mandolin), Jeff Taylor (accordion) and Dennis Crouch (double bass), some of the most highly regarded recording artists and musicians in traditional American country music, Bluegrass and beyond.
"SECRET, PROFANE, & SUGARCANE" TRACK LIST
1. Down Among the Wine and Spirits
2. Complicated Shadows
3. I Felt the Chill
4. My All Time Doll
5. Hidden Shame
6. She Handed Me a Mirror
7. I Dreamed of My Old Lover
8. How Deep is the Red
9. She Was No Good
10. Sulfur to Sugarcane
11. Red Cotton
12. The Crooked Line
13. Changing Partners

"Due to the division of the music over four sides, the vinyl edition will contain two additional tracks, a arrangement of Lou Reed's "Femme Fatale" and Costello's sequel to the old Appalachian murder ballad, "Omie Wise", entitled, "What Lewis Did Last".

Beginning June 2, 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane' will be available at participating Starbucks company-operated locations in the U.S. and Canada and wherever music is sold."

2009 Tour Dates
Apr 22 - Basingstoke GB The Anvil *
Apr 23 - London GB The Barbican Centre *
Apr 24 - Birmingham GB Symphony Hall *
Apr 26 - Glasgow GB Royal Concert Hall *
Apr 27 - Manchester GB Bridgewater Hall *
Apr 29 - Bristol GB St George's Hall *
May 02 - Memphis TN US Memphis Beale St Festival **
Jun 09 - Red Bank NJ US Count Basie Theatre
Jun 10 - New York NY US Beacon Theatre
Jun 11 - Vienna VA US Wolf Trap
Jun 13 - Manchester TN US Bonnaroo
Jun 14 - Cary NC US Booth Amphitheatre
Jun 16 - Nashville TN US Ryman Auditorium
Jun 19 - Telluride CO US Telluride Festival

* Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
** Elvis Costello and The Popular Trend
.Select US tour dates featuring musicians from the album -- dubbed "The Sugarcanes" -- will follow in June and August, 2009
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