In the latest installment of transatlantic stylistic trading, Elvis Costello will release an Americana record, Secret, Profane, & Sugarcane, on June 2nd. In an age when artists spend more and more time making albums (Black Sabbath's debut in 1969 took 8 hours to record -- Guns N' Roses' latest took 8 years), Costello's record is an anachronism. Secret, Profane, & Sugarcane was recorded in just three days in Nashville with legendary producer T Bone Burnett (K.D. Lang, Robert Plant and Alison Krause, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) at the helm.
Costello flirted with Americana on 1986's King of America and dove headfirst (and frankly, smacked the bottom of the pool) on 1981's collection of country covers, Almost Blue. Costello's new collection, some of which was originally written for Johnny Cash, threatens to be both his most deliberate and spontaneous C & W attempt yet.
