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Elvis Costello - King Of America - [6 CD Super Deluxe Edition]

Elvis Costello - King Of America - [6 CD Super Deluxe Edition]

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Across 6CDs, Elvis Costello: King of America & Other Realms traces his musical travels from Hollywood – where the King Of America album was recorded in 1986 – to a brand new take on “Brilliant Mistake” cut in Cape Fear early in 2024, via Costello’s recording adventures in New Orleans, Oxford and Clarksdale, Mississippi, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee and guided by Costello’s own 35-page essay which includes numerous rare and never-before seen photos.   

The collection is anchored by CD1: a new 2024 remaster of the album King Of America from the original master tapes.  

CD2 collects the solo demos from 1985 including six performances from the unheard Red Bus Studios session with radically different lyrical drafts, shedding new light on the intention of key songs from the King Of America album. 

CD3 is a never heard before 17-song concert recorded on January 27, 1987 at The Royal Albert Hall in London in the company of James Burton, Jim Keltner, Jerry Scheff, Benmont Tench & T-Bone Wolk.  

Newly mixed from multitrack tapes – and featuring live renditions of several King Of America titles – Costello is also heard performing songs by Waylon Jennings, Arthur Alexander, Allen Toussaint, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mose Allison, Ray Charles, Jesse Winchester, Dave Bartholomew and Buddy Holly. A truly great American songbook.   

The set closes with a 3CD digest of Costello’s studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes & live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey. 

Tracklist:

  1. Brilliant Mistake
  2. Lovable
  3. Our Little Angel
  4. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
  5. Glitter Gulch
  6. Indoor Fireworks
  7. Little Palaces
  8. I'll Wear It Proudly
  9. American Without Tears
  10. Eisenhower Blues
  11. Poisoned Rose
  12. The Big Light
  13. Jack Of All Parades
  14. Suit Of Lights
  15. Sleep Of The Just
  16. The People's Limousine
  17. Next Time Round (Red Bus Demo)
  18. Deportee (Red Bus Demo)
  19. Brilliant Mistake (Red Bus Demo)
  20. Suffering Face (Solo Demo)
  21. Poisoned Rose (Solo Demo)
  22. Jack Of All Parades (Solo Demo)
  23. Sleep of the Just (Red Bus Demo)
  24. Blue Chair (Red Bus Demo)
  25. I Hope You're Happy Now (Solo Demo)
  26. I'll Wear It Proudly (Solo Demo)
  27. Indoor Fireworks (Solo Demo)
  28. Having It All (Solo Demo)
  29. Shoes Without Heels (Red Bus Demo)
  30. King of Confidence (Outtake)
  31. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me- The Coward Brothers
  32. American Without Tears No. 2 (Twilight Version)
  33. The Big Light
  34. Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line
  35. Our Little Angel
  36. It Tears Me Up
  37. I'll Wear It Proudly
  38. Lovable
  39. Riverboat
  40. Sally Sue Brown/36-22-36
  41. American Without Tears
  42. Brilliant Mistake
  43. What Would I Do Without You?
  44. You're Mind's On Vacation / Your Funeral, My Trial
  45. Pouring Water On A Drowning Man
  46. Payday
  47. That's How You Got Killed Before (Reprise)
  48. Sleep Of The Just
  49. True Love Ways
  50. There's A Story In Your Voice
  51. Country Darkness
  52. The Delivery Man
  53. Nothing Clings Like Ivy
  54. Heart Shaped Bruise - with Emmylou Harris (Live At The Hi-Tone, Memphis)
  55. Bedlam (Live At Montreal Jazz)
  56. Either Side Of The Same Town
  57. Wonder Woman
  58. In Another Room (The Clarksdale Sessions)
  59. The Monkey - Rehearsal with Dave Bartholomew & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
  60. Monkey To Man
  61. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
  62. Clown Strike (Live At Montreal Jazz)
  63. Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further?
  64. The River In Reverse
  65. The Greatest Love- from Treme
  66. Ascension Day
  67. Stations Of The Cross
  68. Quick Like A Flash (Unreleased Version)
  69. Sulphur To Sugarcane
  70. Red Cotton
  71. Lost On The River #12
  72. A Slow Drag With Josephine
  73. I Felt The Chill Before Winter Came
  74. Complicated Shadows (Cashbox Version)
  75. She's Pulling Out The Pin
  76. Condemned Man (Demo)
  77. Hidden Shame
  78. Red Wicked Wine - with Dr. Ralph Stanley
  79. The Scarlet Tide - with Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings (Live at the Grand Ole Opry)
  80. One Bell Ringing
  81. Bullets For The New Born King
  82. All These Strangers
  83. For More Tears (Demo)
  84. You Hung The Moon
  85. Stella Hurt
  86. Mr Feathers
  87. Under Lime
  88. Jimmie Standing In The Rain
  89. Down Among The Wines And Spirits
  90. Dr. Watson, I Presume
  91. Church Underground (Demo)
  92. A Voice In The Dark
  93. April 5th - with Rosanne Cash & Kris Kristofferson
  94. Indoor Fireworks (Memphis Magnetic Version)
  95. That's Not The Part Of Him You're Leaving - with Larkin Poe
  96. Brilliant Mistake/Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Cape Fear Version)
  97. That Day If Done - with The Fairfield Four

UPC: 602488514378
Label: Ume
Release Date: 11.1.24
Format: CD

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