Elvis Costello and the Attractions

#654: C is for Costello, Elvis (The Spanish Model)

The first Elvis album I listen to doesn’t haveElvis’s voice anywhere on it, or hardly. A testament to Costello’s cross-cultural reach, Elvishanded over 16 of the original instrumentaltracks from This Year’s Modelto 16+ different Spanish speakingsingers. As a listener, and a huge Elvis fan, and a guy who does not speak Spanish, it’s a tripContinue reading “#654: C is for Costello, Elvis (The Spanish Model)”

#653: C is for Costello, Elvis (A Prologue)

I have 25 Elvis Costello albumsin my CD collection. There is onlyone other artist more prominent in the shelves of compact discsthan Elvis, and that would beMr. Frank Zappa, at 36 albums, half of which are double CD’s. On the shelves of vinyl, I have the three Elvis studio recordsreleased since 2018, and threemore specialContinue reading “#653: C is for Costello, Elvis (A Prologue)”