Elvis Costello Archives • Americana Highways

Music Reviews: “New Guitars in Town” (a Power-Pop Anthology), plus Christian Parker, Ted Russell Kamp, Marcia Griffiths, and Willie Lindo

March 24, 2024March 23, 2024Jeff Burger0

Music Reviews: “New Guitars in Town” (a Power-Pop Anthology), plus Christian Parker, Ted Russell Kamp, Marcia Griffiths, and Willie Lindo As this column noted last year, “Power pop has always been a loosely defined genre—a big umbrella for upbeat, guitar-driven music that mostly harkened back to 1960s pop rock but that makes room for acts […]

Music Reviews: Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, plus Memphis Slim, New Earth Farmers, and an Anthology of Seminal Folk

March 12, 2023March 11, 2023Jeff Burger0

The great songwriter Burt Bacharach, who teamed up most famously with lyricist Hal David, also worked for nearly three decades with Elvis Costello. That pairing may at first seem as unlikely as the one between Robert Plant and Alison Krause or the Christmas medley recorded by Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Take a close look […]