Secret, Profane & Sugarcane - Elvis Costello
 

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Audio CD (June 2, 2009)
Original Release Date: June 9, 2009
Number of Discs: 1
Label: HEAR MUSIC
ASIN: B001RTCOZC

1. Down Among the Wines and Spirits
2. Complicated Shadows
3. I Felt the Chill Before the Winter
4. My All Time Doll
5. Hidden Shame
6. She Handed Me a Mirror
7. I Dreamed of My Old Lover
8. How Deep Is the Red
9. She Was No Good
10. Sulphur to Sugarcane
11. Red Cotton
12. The Crooked Line
13. Changing Partners

7/10
Primarily acoustic. Lots of fiddle. Some solid bass work. And unfortunately a fair bit of filler. There are several commendable tracks though, and Costello covers every formulaic country attitude you’d expect. From scorned lover to front-porch stomper. All while maintaining his caliber of lyrical composition. It is casually reminiscent of King of America, just because it’s the product of the same producer and a similar genre, but this album really plays with no hint of obligation to his previous sounds.

Highlights:
I Felt Chill Before the Winter
I Dreamed of My Old Lover
Sulphur to Sugarcane (a little ditty about nationwide “conquests”)