King of America

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King of America

album by Costello

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Elvis Costello
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Following his marriage, Costello recorded King of America (1986), a radical stylistic departure. Produced by T Bone Burnett, King of America features spare acoustic arrangements and a more direct lyrical style. Costello continued to explore new sounds on his next album, Spike (1989), on which O’Riordan and former Beatle Paul…
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Following his marriage, Costello recorded King of America (1986), a radical stylistic departure. Produced by T Bone Burnett, King of America features spare acoustic arrangements and a more direct lyrical style. Costello continued to explore new sounds on his next album, Spike (1989), on which O’Riordan and former Beatle Paul…
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T Bone Burnett
…worked with Elvis Costello, whose King of America (1986) and Spike (1989) feature Burnett as both producer and performer. While these and other projects helped to establish Burnett professionally, his work on The Turning (1987), an album by Christian pop artist Leslie Phillips, proved significant personally. Burnett and Phillips—who recorded…
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…worked with Elvis Costello, whose King of America (1986) and Spike (1989) feature Burnett as both producer and performer. While these and other projects helped to establish Burnett professionally, his work on The Turning (1987), an album by Christian pop artist Leslie Phillips, proved significant personally. Burnett and Phillips—who recorded…
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