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Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett Pair Up For New CD

Elvis Costello has confirmed the details behind his latest disc, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane. Due out June 2 through Hear Music, it features the production of T Bone Burnett and the fruits of a three-day (!) session at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studio. Costello and Burnett have worked together twice before—on 1986's King of America and 1989's Spike LP. This time around, Burnett contributed electric guitar parts to several songs, with Emmylou Harris stepping in on one song and Loretta Lynn helping out with the writing of "I Felt the Chill." Costello originally wrote two other tracks, "Hidden Same" and "Boom Chicka Boom," for Johnny Cash.

A tour featuring "The Sugarcanes" (a group of session players from the new record) is expected to hit North America in June and August.

Secret, Profane & Sugarcane:
1. Down Among the Wine and Spirits
2. Complicated Shadows
3. I Felt the Chill
4. My All Time Doll
5. Hidden Shame
6. She Handed Me a Mirror
7. I Dreamed of My Old Lover
8. How Deep is the Red
9. She Was No Good
10. Sulfur to Sugarcane
11. Red Cotton
12. The Crooked Line
13. Changing Partners

Bonus tracks on vinyl version:
14. Femme Fatale
15. What Lewis Did Last

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
03.26.09