“What is is this time? Schubert lieder? Balkan fusion? Elvis Costello’s genre-hopping can be exhilarating and, often, exhausting. But here he’s in one of his comfort zones, rootsy Americana, reunited with T Bone Burnett, who produced the similarly flavored 1986 ringer King of America. Recorded in Nashville in three days, it’s tight and uncluttered, with […]”
