Elvis & The Imposters, Memphis, TN, Orpheum Theatre , November 19th 2018

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Elvis & The Imposters, Memphis, TN, Orpheum Theatre , November 19th 2018

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Re: Elvis & The Imposters, Memphis, TN, Orpheum Theatre , November 19th 2018

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I'll be there! Driving from Nashville.
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Re: Elvis & The Imposters, Memphis, TN, Orpheum Theatre , November 19th 2018

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' lapidary Bacharachesque elegance'


https://eu.commercialappeal.com/story/e ... 977198002/

Elvis Costello returns to Memphis

John Beifuss

Memphis Commercial Appeal
Nov 14, 2018


Elvis Costello has been a recording artist and touring musician for about as long as his namesake, Elvis Presley, was alive.

That's a rather astonishing realization for those of us old enough to remember both the second Elvis' debut and the original Elvis' demise.

The King of Rock and Roll died on Aug. 16, 1977, at the age of 42. Next July 22 will mark the 42nd anniversary of the release of Costello's first album, "My Aim Is True."



It's likely these facts astonish Elvis Costello, too. "Look Now," the artist's wise, tuneful and meticulous new album with his longtime backing band, The Imposters, is much concerned with the treachery and tyranny of time, as well as the fallibility of the flesh, the flappability of the mind, and the comforts and torments of memory.


A short story in verse, the song "Stripping Paper" uses the simple physical action described in its title to reveal, layer by layer, a romantic and domestic family history, complete with flirtation, children and breakup. "It's amazing what you will find stripping paper/ When you get down to the past...," sings Costello, an archaeologist of heartbreak.

Another new song, "Burnt Sugar Is Bitter," co-written with Carole King, refers to the remains of a birthday cake, "smeared and beautifully frosted." Meanwhile, "I Let the Sun Go Down" is like a lost Kinks lament, a song that mocks — with the affection of recognition — the conceits of men who equate the diminishment of their own influence with the the loss of empire.

And then there's the album's opening track, "Under Lime," which repeats the line: "And the clock on the wall tick-tocked the time away..." Unspoken but understood is the notion that the tick of a clock is an echo of the beat of a heart.

Unlike some of his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame colleagues, Costello — perhaps conscious of the Elvis Presley anniversary on his heels — has not ignored the so-called birthplace of rock and roll. Monday night's Elvis Costello and The Imposters show at the Orpheum will represent Costello's tenth concert appearance in Memphis in the 21st century, a number that includes gigs at Minglewood, the New Daisy, the Beale Street Music Festival and four 2004 dates over two packed, sweaty nights at the old Hi-Tone on Poplar, preserved on the DVD release, "Club Date — Live in Memphis." (And in case you're wondering if I've been to every Elvis Costello show since the artist first performed here at Mud Island in 1983, the answer is: Yes, I have.)

The Orpheum show is the 12th date on a 20-city tour of North America to promote "Look Now" (Concord Records), the 27th album of new songs by the man born Declan Patrick MacManus and the singer's first release in almost a decade with The Imposters, the three-man backup ensemble that includes keyboard player Steve Nieve and drummer Peter Thomas from his original band, the Attractions, plus bassist Davey Faragher.

The album's cover painting, a portrait of a woman credited to artist "Eamonn Singer" (one of Costello's pseudonyms), is a clue that many of the narratives inside require Costello to take on the role of a female character, a strategy that in no way reduces the personal nature of the material.



The tour is welcome news for Costello fans for more than the usual reasons. In July, Costello canceled several European dates due to surgery for what he called, in a message on his website, "a small but very aggressive cancerous malignancy." Since the release of "Look Now," the 64-year-old English singer has been working hard to demonstrate that he is healthy; Saturday, he appeared on "CBS This Morning" to chat and sing, the familiar gap in the teeth of his mischievous smile a welcome contrapuntal flaw to the lapidary Bacharachesque elegance and precision of his new compositions.
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