More year-end praise for elvis
Elvis Costello, The Delivery Man (Lost Highway).
Musically inspired by the American South and recorded mostly in Mississippi, The Delivery Man is closer in sonic intent to Costello's 1986 gem King of America than to anything he's recorded in the past decade and a half.
There are some of Costello's signature word-spewing rave-ups, but there's also an awe-inspiring duet with Emmylou Harris on Heart Shaped Bruise, a beautiful ballad that would have sounded at home on an album by Costello's long-gone country-rock inspiration, Gram Parsons.
2004: Year in Music
BEST CONCERT MOMENT: Elvis Costello channeling his inner Bacharach and Sinatra while crooning This House Is Empty Now, Mizner Park.