On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:05:22 +0100, in rec.audio.opinion you wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ic/3610407.stm

Yeah, AP had a release about this as well.

The BBC article isn't quite correct. At this very moment, he's still
in Oxford MS recording with Dennis Herring of Sweet Tea Studios (Buddy
Guy, Cracker, Counting Crows). He doesn't hit Memphis until next week
and then, I think it's only going to be a for a couple of days. I
think that the bulk of the sessions for the rock album are going to be
from Oxford. He's also going to do a session in Clarksdale as well
(maybe this weekend).

And yes, I'm going to be at all four Memphis shows as well. In Oxford,
they sold one ticket for each night, which was good for both 70 minute
sets each night, but in Memphis, you had to buy a ticket for each set.

You can see shots that I took at the show. Not my best work, but I was
only 5 feet away from him and had to be careful not to blind him with
my flash. It was hard to get good poses so close, plus there was that
darned mic stand in the way. Because I felt so exposed (pun intended),
I didn't even take pictures the second night.

http://www.elviscostello.info/pic/04...02.oxford.html

Just click the thumbs. Under the last one is a little "big" link that
you should click to see the shot full-sized (well, all of the shots
are downsized to 800X600 for the net). The other thumbs go to full
size automatically.

The new songs are definitely rocking!