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The show is oriented around material from Costello’s 1986 return-to-roots album ''King of America'', which Burnett produced. In a statement today, he expounded on the record and this occasion to revisit it: | The show is oriented around material from Costello’s 1986 return-to-roots album ''King of America'', which Burnett produced. In a statement today, he expounded on the record and this occasion to revisit it: | ||
“''King Of America''” was my first full-length collaboration with T Bone Burnett, who produced and cast the record. It was the first album that I made after | “''King Of America''” was my first full-length collaboration with T Bone Burnett, who produced and cast the record. It was the first album that I made after “''My Aim Is True''” that was not entirely performed with the Attractions. The songs I had written invited a very different instrumental approach. T Bone took a fountain pen and wrote a cast list for an album that made my head spin, proposing and then booking players who had accompanied Elvis Presley, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Bob Dylan. | ||
In 37 years since we made that record my world has opened ever more to playing and singing with a wide variety of musicians, yet the songs from “''King Of America''” remain close to my heart, written as they were from my understanding of American country-soul balladry and the narrative songs tradition found on my other albums that T Bone has produced; “''Spike''”, “''Secret Profane & Sugarcane''” and “''National Ransom''.” | In 37 years since we made that record my world has opened ever more to playing and singing with a wide variety of musicians, yet the songs from “''King Of America''” remain close to my heart, written as they were from my understanding of American country-soul balladry and the narrative songs tradition found on my other albums that T Bone has produced; “''Spike''”, “''Secret Profane & Sugarcane''” and “''National Ransom''.” |
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