Album Review: Elvis Costello, "Secret, Profane and Sugarcane" (Hear Music)

Rock's most aggressive genre hopper lands in the cozy and calming world of acoustic folk and country instrumentation, with producer T Bone Burnett demonstrating there's more to mine in this vein than Robert and Alison Krauss tapped on "Raising Sand." By teaming Costello with a band dominated by fiddles, banjos, upright bass and rhythm guitar, Burnett removes the luster of a bygone era being resuscitated; this is Costello alternating between front-porch crooner, dispatched lover and angry punk w...

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