このCDについて
前作『ノース』からわずか1年、マルチ・パフォーマー、エルヴィス・コステロが早くも新作を完成させた。しかもロック＆クラシックの2枚同時リリースでの登場。そのうちの1枚が本作で、『ホエン・アイ・ワズ・クルーエル』からの流れをつぐバンド・サウンドを聴かせる。エミルー・ハリス、ルシンダ・ウィリアムスといった女性シンガーがゲスト参加。
同時発売：バレエ音楽のスコア『II Sogno』。ドイツ・グラモフォンからのリリース。
Album Description
With
The Delivery Man--Elvis Costello and the Imposters' first release for Lost Highway--one of modern music's most admired and prolific talents has delivered a remarkable album that draws on deep American musical roots more than any of his releases since
King of America in 1986. It is a collection that ranges from the ferocious, bass-driven opening track, "Button My Lip," which speaks in the voice of a desperate man on the verge of committing a terrible crime, to a tender and timely closing rendition of "The Scarlet Tide," referred to by Costellos co-composer and fellow Oscar nominee T-Bone Burnett as an "anti-fear song."
Like a lot of great things in music history, The Delivery Man can be said to have started with the late great Johnny Cash. "The Delivery Man is actually a character imported from a song I wrote in 1986 for Johnny Cash," Costello explains. "He's based on a real character. I read this story in the paper about a man who confessed to murdering his childhood friend thirty years later, having been in prison for a number of other things. I thought this story was very interesting because he'd carried this burden of guilt of this childhood crime."
~ エルヴィス・コステロ
~ Elvis Costello
~ Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach
~ Elvis Costello
~ Elvis Costello
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