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To be fair to them, most Elvis Costello concerts do have the rough outline of other Elvis Costello concerts: You get what you ...

But I’m happy to report that after ... the “sadder song waiting to get out,” as Costello said, and was the perfect showcase ...

Less proved to be more when Elvis Costello and longtime keyboardist ... were good enough to make them work. As Costello noted early on, “We get to peel away some of the artifice, getting right ...