Elvis Costello’s National Ransom Coming

Elvis Costello’s 2009 album Secret, Profane & Sugarcane touched on bluegrass, R&B, and Americana with producer T-Bone Burnett. This year Costello’s back with similar sounds and the same producer, and a consistent theme: The financial collapse. But the collapse seems to stand in for all kinds of American tragedies, personal, national, international, etc. (Costello describes [...]

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