Elvis Costello & The Imposters have just booked a 23-city summer tour with Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets. The tour, which will also feature an opening set by the Imposters' supplemental guitarist — and longtime Bob Dylan band member — Charlie Sexton, kicks off on June 7th at Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre and winds down on July 14th in Philadelphia at The Met Philadelphia.
Not too long ago, Elvis Costello told us how he goes about creating his nightly setlists: “We're playing just everything I feel like playing. There's a pretty broad scope to things — some nights we play a lot of very well-known songs, some nights we don't play any, because that's the mood that I'm in, and I feel that's what we need to do.”
We asked Nick Lowe — a man often regarded as a “songwriter's songwriter” — if when he's stumbled upon a melody, it stays with him until it can be crafted into a song: “That is pretty much how it is, yes. Occasionally I'll regret not having a little Dictaphone, or something I could've hummed something into — because it will not come back, and I know that something's been good. But in general, if you get a germ of an idea, it will come back.”
