Tag: Elvis Costello

Album | My Darling Clementine with Steve Nieve – Country Darkness

Taking on the Elvis Costello songbook is a risky proposition, yet My Darling Clementine have an ace up their sleeve on Country Darkness, the personal keyboard player of Mr. McManus, one Steve Nieve. Together, Michael Weston King (whose voice has more…

#101 Elvis Costello and Mumford & Sons – The Ghost of Tom Joad

We were all shocked to hear Mumford & Sons double bass player Ted Dwane has been hospitalised with a blood clot on his brain. The announcement came hours after this video of Mumford & Sons playing the Bruce Springsteen classic ‘The…

#37 Elvis Costello – Shipbuilding

Costello’s angry, sad and thoughtful reaction to the Falklands War is simply one of the best songs ever composed. Originally written in 1982 for Robert Wyatt, whose politics and guileless vocals offered rawness and authenticity, it is in Costello’s own…

James Apollo’s top 5 British folk artists

Nomadic Americana artist James Apollo is over in the UK ahead of the release of his second album available to us Brits, ‘Born Lucky’. It’s a compilation spanning his 6-year career. To celebrate his visit to this fair isle, he picked…