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ESCAPE WITH 6 MUSIC: THE HAPPINESS MAP - 1. ELVIS COSTELLO (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th February 2021Travel journalist Rob Crossan welcomes Elvis Costello to share stories and music from his favourite place to travel, New Orleans. The Happiness Map asks musicians which destination in the world they would go to if they could, gives them a chance to reveal their travel tips, and dig out some records that take them back there.
In this first episode, Elvis recalls his love affair with The Big Easy; from first playing there with the Attractions in the 70s, returning to the city after Hurricane Katrina, and his longstanding relationship with producer, songwriter and New Orleans legend, Allen Toussaint. With music from Louis Armstrong, Dr John, Earl King, and two never-before-heard Elvis Costello recordings from his own archive.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding [Demon]
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
Earl King - Trick Bag [Imperial]
Louis Armstrong - West End Blues [Okeh]
Elvis Costello - Walking On Thin Ice [Demon]
Lee Dorsey - Wonder Woman [Amy]
Dr. John - Tipitina [ATCO]
Little Richard - Rip It Up [Ace]
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - Ascension Day [Verve Forecast]
Kermit Ruffins And The Barbecue Swingers - Skokiaan [Geffen]
Elvis Costello & Dave Bartholomew & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - The Monkey
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The Greatest Love
MASTERTAPES - ELVIS COSTELLO (THE B-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 13th October 2018
In the second part of a special edition of Mastertapes, broadcast to celebrate the first ever National Album Day, Elvis Costello takes questions from the audience and premiers exclusive tracks from his new album, Look Now. He is accompanied through out by his career-long collaborator, pianist Steve Nieve
The first part of this special was broadcast earlier in the day and they are both available as a single podcast.
This programme is part of BBC Music’s support for the first ever National Album Day, which takes place on Saturday 13th October with programming on Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, 5 Live, 6 Music, BBC One and BBC Four across the week or on the day itself.
MASTERTAPES - ELVIS COSTELLO (THE A-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 13th October 2018
From his critically acclaimed debut album, My Aim Is True, released in 1977 to his about-to-be-released Look Now, his first new album in five years, Elvis Costello has been widely recognised as one of Britain’s best songwriters.
In a special edition of Mastertapes to celebrate National Album Day, the consummate album artists talks and plays his way back through a career that has spanned five decades.
From early classics like Watching The Detectives, Accidents Will Happen, and Almost Blue, all the way through to Jimmie Standing In The Rain, Unwanted Number and Under Lime his talent for wordplay has remained undimmed. He remains a composer who works across a range of styles, always mining a deep, rich seam of melodic and harmonic treasures - all of which is on display in this programme recorded in the iconic BBC studios at Maida Vale. Accompanying him is his career-long collaborator, pianist Steve Nieve.
This programme is part of BBC Music’s support for the first ever National Album Day, which takes place on Saturday 13th October with programming on Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, 5 Live, 6 Music, BBC One and BBC Four across the week or on the day itself.
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 6 - 4. ELVIS COSTELLO (320kbs-m4a/126mb/55mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 2nd January 2018
Elvis Costello shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2013.
He arrived seemingly fully-formed with his 1977 debut album My Aim Is True, full of passion, anger and poetry - and hasn't stopped moving since.
He's produced albums of sneering post punk, lavish orchestral pop, country and western, easy listening, classical, Tin Pan Alley pop and jazz - and the thread that runs through all this is his songwriting skill.
Elvis talks about the influence of his father (who was a trumpeter with the Joe Loss Orchestra in the 50s and 60s), the recording of his breakthrough debut album and enlisting Chet Baker for Shipbuilding.
He also talks about some of his favourite collaborators, including Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach and the Roots.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding [Demon]
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Watching the Detectives [Imp]
Dinah Washington - I've Got You Under My Skin
The Beatles - Please Please Me [Apple]
Ross McManus - Patsy Girl [HMV]
Georgie Fame - Get On The Right Track, Baby [Polydor]
Elvis Costello - Less Than Zero [Demon]
Elvis Costello - Alison [Demon]
Joni Mitchell - California (BBC Paris Theatre 29/09/1970)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Accidents Will Happen [Universal Music]
Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding [Universal Music TV]
Burt Bacharach And Elvis Costello - God Give Me Strength
Elvis Costello - Veronica [Universal Music]
Elvis Costello & The Roots - Stick Out Your Tongue [Decca/Blue Note]