Elvis Costello - King Of America & Other Realms (Super Deluxe Edition, 6CD Boxset)

Elvis Costello - King Of America & Other Realms

• Super Deluxe Edition
• 6x CDs Boxset

RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2024

DESCRIPTION 

Across 6CDs, Elvis Costello: King of America & Other Realms traces his musical travels from Hollywood – where the King Of America album was recorded in 1986 – to a brand new take on “Brilliant Mistake” cut in Cape Fear early in 2024, via Costello’s recording adventures in New Orleans, Oxford and Clarksdale, Mississippi, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee and guided by Costello’s own 35-page essay which includes numerous rare and never-before seen photos.   

The collection is anchored by CD1: a new 2024 remaster of the album King Of America from the original master tapes.  

CD2 collects the solo demos from 1985 including six performances from the unheard Red Bus Studios session with radically different lyrical drafts, shedding new light on the intention of key songs from the King Of America album. 

CD3 is a never heard before 17-song concert recorded on January 27, 1987 at The Royal Albert Hall in London in the company of James Burton, Jim Keltner, Jerry Scheff, Benmont Tench & T-Bone Wolk.  

Newly mixed from multitrack tapes – and featuring live renditions of several King Of America titles – Costello is also heard performing songs by Waylon Jennings, Arthur Alexander, Allen Toussaint, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mose Allison, Ray Charles, Jesse Winchester, Dave Bartholomew and Buddy Holly. A truly great American songbook.   

The set closes with a 3CD digest of Costello’s studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes & live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey. 

TRACKLIST

DISC: 1

1. Brilliant Mistake
2. Lovable
3. Our Little Angel
4. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
5. Glitter Gulch
6. Indoor Fireworks
7. Little Palaces
8. I'll Wear It Proudly
9. American Without Tears
10. Eisenhower Blues
11. Poisoned Rose
12. The Big Light
13. Jack Of All Parades
14. Suit Of Lights
15. Sleep Of The Just

DISC: 2

1. The People's Limousine
2. Next Time Round (Red Bus Demo)
3. Deportee (Red Bus Demo)
4. Brilliant Mistake (Red Bus Demo)
5. Suffering Face (Solo Demo)
6. Poisoned Rose (Solo Demo)
7. Jack Of All Parades (Solo Demo)
8. Sleep of the Just (Red Bus Demo)
9. Blue Chair (Red Bus Demo)
10. I Hope You're Happy Now (Solo Demo)
11. I'll Wear It Proudly (Solo Demo)
12. Indoor Fireworks (Solo Demo)
13. Having It All (Solo Demo)
14. Shoes Without Heels (Red Bus Demo)
15. King of Confidence (Outtake)
16. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me- The Coward Brothers
17. American Without Tears No. 2 (Twilight Version)

DISC: 3

1. The Big Light
2. Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line
3. Our Little Angel
4. It Tears Me Up
5. I'll Wear It Proudly
6. Lovable
7. Riverboat
8. Sally Sue Brown/36-22-36
9. American Without Tears
10. Brilliant Mistake
11. What Would I Do Without You?
12. You're Mind's On Vacation / Your Funeral, My Trial
13. Pouring Water On A Drowning Man
14. Payday
15. That's How You Got Killed Before (Reprise)
16. Sleep Of The Just
17. True Love Ways

DISC: 4

1. There's A Story In Your Voice
2. Country Darkness
3. The Delivery Man
4. Nothing Clings Like Ivy
5. Heart Shaped Bruise - with Emmylou Harris (Live At The Hi-Tone, Memphis)
6. Bedlam (Live At Montreal Jazz)
7. Either Side Of The Same Town
8. Wonder Woman
9. In Another Room (The Clarksdale Sessions)
10. The Monkey - Rehearsal with Dave Bartholomew & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
11. Monkey To Man
12. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
13. Clown Strike (Live At Montreal Jazz)
14. Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further?
15. The River In Reverse
16. The Greatest Love- from Treme
17. Ascension Day

DISC: 5

1. Stations Of The Cross
2. Quick Like A Flash (Unreleased Version)
3. Sulphur To Sugarcane
4. Red Cotton
5. Lost On The River #12
6. A Slow Drag With Josephine
7. I Felt The Chill Before Winter Came
8. Complicated Shadows (Cashbox Version)
9. She's Pulling Out The Pin
10. Condemned Man (Demo)
11. Hidden Shame
12. Red Wicked Wine - with Dr. Ralph Stanley
13. The Scarlet Tide - with Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings (Live at the Grand Ole Opry)
14. One Bell Ringing
15. Bullets For The New Born King
16. All These Strangers
17. For More Tears (Demo)
18. You Hung The Moon

DISC: 6

1. Stella Hurt
2. Mr Feathers
3. Under Lime
4. Jimmie Standing In The Rain
5. Down Among The Wines And Spirits
6. Dr. Watson, I Presume
7. Church Underground (Demo)
8. A Voice In The Dark
9. April 5th - with Rosanne Cash & Kris Kristofferson
10. Indoor Fireworks (Memphis Magnetic Version)
11. That's Not The Part Of Him You're Leaving - with Larkin Poe
12. Brilliant Mistake/Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Cape Fear Version)
13. That Day If Done - with The Fairfield Four

LABEL: UMe
UPC: 602488514378