Pop-punk upstart turned mature’ songwriter’s songwriter’ Elvis Costello has announced he’ll be releasing a new album at the end of October. Entitled National Ransom, the album was recorded at various sessions in Los Angeles, California and Nashville, Tennessee and produced by bluesman T-Bone Burnett. Showing that age and being married to Diana Krall will not weary him, the album comes not much more than a year after 2009’s Sacred, Profane & Sugarcane. The track listing runs:
‘National Ransom’
‘Jimmie Standing In The Rain’
‘Stations Of The Cross’
‘A Slow Drag With Josephine’
‘Five Small Words’
‘Church Underground’
‘You Hung The Moon’
‘Bullets For The New-Born King’
‘I Lost You’
‘Dr Watson, I Presume’
‘One Bell Ringing’
‘The Spell That You Cast’
‘That’s Not The Part Of Him You’re Leaving’
‘My Lovely Jezebel’
‘All These Strangers’