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Rhino Records' extensive reissue campaign for Elvis Costello's albums will continue this summer with the release of Get Happy!!, Trust and Punch the Clock in a two-CD format, each release paired with a bonus CD of rare and unreleased material.
The reissues have been released in bundles of three, starting last year. So far three waves of reissues have put My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Imperial Bedroom, Blood and Chocolate, Spike, Mighty Like a Rose, Brutal Youth and All This Useless Beauty back in record stores with remastered sound, new liner notes and more than twenty bonus tracks per record.
Released in 1980, Get Happy!! was Costello's fourth album. Trust, issued a year later, isn't one of the singer-songwriter's best-known albums, but remains one of his favorites. "That's a record that falls between the cracks a little bit," he told Rolling Stone. "It's a good record. I think it has one of the greatest Attractions performances, 'New Lace Sleeves.' Neil LaBute [Your Friends and Neighbors], who's making a film at the moment, wants to use 'Lovers Walk.' It's nice when someone suggests a song I might have almost forgotten about."
The third album, Punch the Clock was originally released in 1983. The list of extras for each album has not yet been finalized. The latest batch of reissues nearly completes the whole set of Costello's backlog. Of his studio albums, only Almost Blue (1981), Goodbye Cruel World (1984) and King of America (1986) have yet to be given the Rhino makover.
In other Costello news, the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee will receive the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' Founders Award at the organization's annual Pop Music Awards on May 20th in Beverly Hills, California. Costello is also lining up some summer tour dates, beginning July 2nd in Toronto.
Elvis Costello tour dates:
7/2: Toronto, Hummingbird Center
7/11: New York, Central Park SummerStage
7/12: Boston, FleetBoston Pavilion
7/13: Gilford, NH, Meadowbrook Farm Musical Arts Center
7/15: Sterling Heights, MI, Freedom Hill Amphitheater
7/19: Berkeley, CA, Greek Theater
7/23: Edmonton, ALB, Jubilee Auditorium
ANDREW DANSBY
(April 18, 2003)