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Six months or so after whining to Mojo mag that he'd probably never release another album, Elvis Costello is releasing another album.

"Sugarcane," which will be released June 2 on Hear Music, was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded during a three-day session at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studio. Costello and Burnett collaborated on "King of America" and 1989's "Spike."

Costello's band for the project includes such Bluegrass and traditional country musicians as Jerry Douglas (dobro), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Mike Compton (mandolin), Jeff Taylo (accordion) and Dennis Crouch (double bass). Emmylou Harris sings on one song, and Burnett adds his Kay electric guitar sound to several songs, the only amplified instrument on the album.

Ten of the album's tracks are new Costello compositions, including two written with Burnett. One song, " I Felt The Chill," was written by Costello and Loretta Lynn, and two songs -- "Hidden Same" and "Boom Chicka Boom" -- originally were written by Costello for Johnny Cash.

The vinyl version of the album will feature two additional songs: an acoustic a arrangement of Lou Reed's "Femme Fatale" and Costello's sequel to an old Appalachian murder ballad, "What Lewis Did Last."


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Before the knee squiggles: Check out some rare fanzine art by Fred Hembeck.



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Cartoonist Robert Crumb has finished his adaptation of the Book of Genesis. I hope it's funnier than those lame cartoons he and his wife have done in The New Yorker over the past several years.

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The Horrors of it All presents another Jack Cole-illustrated thriller.

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