In 1981, Elvis Costello released Almost Blue, an album of country music cover versions. In those days, the very early 1980s, LPs were released in three formats: vinyl records, cassette tapes, and ...

With the benefit of decades of evidence, we now know that Elvis Costello is fearless when it comes to taking on genres outside the typical pop-rock fare. But back in 1981, music fans mostly knew him ...

In his autobiography, Elvis Costello wrote that the popular idea of him early on as an angry man was just a trick of physiology. He wrote: “It seems that the space between my two front teeth, which ...