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Costello To Release Acoustic Country Album

Elvis Costello
Mar 31, 2009 Updated Mar 24, 2010

Elvis Costello will release a new 'largely acoustic' country album titled 'Secret, Profane And Sugarcane' in June.

The album was recorded in just three days at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studio with T Bone Burnett in the producer's chair.

Costello is backed by bluegrass and country musicians rather than his usual band. Emmylou Harris sings on one song.

The album features a track co-written with Loretta Lynn, two songs Costello originally wrote for Johnny Cash - 'Hidden same' and 'Boom Chicka Boom' - and a cover of the Velvet Underground's 'Femme Fatale'.

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Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an British singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic...

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