The Delivery Man

The Delivery Man
The Delivery Man
Studio album by Elvis Costello and The Imposters
Released September 21, 2004
Genre Alternative rock, roots rock
Length 53:20
Label Lost Highway
Producer Elvis Costello, Dennis Herring
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Elvis Costello and The Imposters chronology
Cruel Smile The Delivery Man
(2004)
Momofuku
(2008)
Elvis Costello chronology
Il Sogno
(2004)
The Delivery Man
(2004)
My Flame Burns Blue
(2006)

The Delivery Man is the 21st studio album by Elvis Costello, released on Lost Highway Records, B0002593-02. It was recorded with the Imposters at Sweet Tea Studio in Oxford, Mississippi. It peaked at #40 on the Billboard 200.

Contents

Content

The album had its genesis in a conceptual story apparently written for Johnny Cash. Costello himself states:

The Delivery Man started out as a story about the impact on three woman’s lives of a man with a hidden past. The story took the song "Hidden Shame" as its unsung prelude. Parts of the narrative ended up being displaced from the final album by more urgent songs taken from the news headlines. One of the songs moved aside was to find an ideal home on Secret, Profane & Sugarcane.[1]

The album features guest vocals by Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris. "Monkey to Man" derived from a 1950s rhythm and blues hit "The Monkey" by Dave Bartholomew, and a song written by Costello and his then-wife Cait O'Riordan, "The Judgement," had been previously recorded by Solomon Burke on his 2002 release Don't Give Up On Me. The vinyl and United Kingdom compact disc pressings of the album included an additional track, "She's Pulling Out the Pin." The album was issued the same day as Il Sogno.

Shortly after its release, Lost Highway issued a deluxe edition of the album, including a bonus disc containing seven tracks from the Clarksdale Sessions ten-inch vinyl record, a collection of songs recorded live at Delta Recording in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The Clarksdale Sessions, subtitled "Delivery Man Companion," contained new versions of tracks from the proper album as well as an unreleased Costello original "In Another Room," and covers of the Bartholomew original "The Monkey" and "Dark End of the Street." Tom Waits has named it one of his favorite albums.[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Elvis Costello unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "Button My Lip" – 4:54
  2. "Country Darkness" – 3:57
  3. "There's A Story in Your Voice" – 3:43
  4. "Either Side of the Same Town" (Elvis Costello/Jerry Ragovoy) – 3:59
  5. "Bedlam" – 4:48
  6. "The Delivery Man" – 4:38
  7. "Monkey to Man" – 4:28
  8. "Nothing Clings Like Ivy" – 4:17
  9. "The Name of This Thing Is Not Love" – 2:50
  10. "Heart Shaped Bruise" – 4:07
  11. "She's Pulling Out the Pin" – 3:22 vinyl pressings and UK CD only
  12. "Needle Time" – 5:05
  13. "The Judgement" (Elvis Costello/Cait O'Riordan) – 3:58
  14. "The Scarlet Tide" (T-Bone Burnett/Elvis Costello) – 4:57

Deluxe edition bonus disc

  1. "The Monkey" (Dave Bartholomew/Pearl King) - 2:34
  2. "Country Darkness" - 4:21
  3. "Needle Time" - 5:13
  4. "The Scarlet Tide" (Burnett/Costello) - 2:22
  5. "In Another Room" - 4:25
  6. "The Delivery Man" - 4:57
  7. "Dark End of the Street" (Dan Penn/Chips Moman) - 3:06

Personnel

Charts

Year Chart Position
2004 The Billboard 200 40
2004 Billboard Top Internet Albums 110

References


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