Costello & Nieve

Costello & Nieve
Live album by Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve
Released	3 December 1996
Recorded	14–22 May 1996
Genre	Rock
Length	113:26
Label	Warner Bros.
Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve chronology
All This Useless Beauty (1996) Costello & Nieve (1996) Extreme Honey (1997)

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Allmusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]

Costello & Nieve is a limited edition five-disc live album by Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve, released in 1996. It was recorded in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York City.

Track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello unless otherwise indicated.

Disc 1 (Recorded on May 14, 1996 Live at The Troubadour, Los Angeles)

1. "Temptation" – 3:50
2. "Poor Fractured Atlas" – 4:58
3. "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:27
4. "It's Time" – 5:55
5. "Man Out of Time" – 4:53
6. "Shallow Grave" (Costello, Paul McCartney) – 2:54

Disc 2 (Recorded on May 15, 1996 Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco)

1. "Just About Glad" – 3:59
2. "Why Can't a Man Stand Alone?" – 4:10
3. "My Dark Life" – 7:13
4. "All This Useless Beauty" – 5:57
5. "Ship of Fools" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 6:12

Disc 3 (Recorded on May 18, 1996 Live at The Park West, Chicago)

1. "The Long Honeymoon" – 4:25
2. "Starting to Come to Me" – 2:47
3. "The Other End of the Telescope" (Costello, Aimee Mann) – 4:32
4. "All the Rage" – 4:02
5. "Watching the Detectives" – 6:09

Disc 4 (Recorded on May 20, 1996 Live at The Paradise, Boston)

1. "You Bowed Down" – 4:56
2. "The Long Honeymoon" – 4:46
3. "Distorted Angel" – 4:45
4. "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" – 2:49
5. "Little Atoms" – 5:37
6. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:02

Disc 5 (Recorded on May 22, 1996 Live at The Supper Club, New York)

1. "Black Sails in the Sunset" – 3:17
2. "You'll Never Be a Man" – 3:16
3. "Just a Memory" – 3:44
4. "I Want to Vanish" – 3:22
5. Medley: – 6:16
   • "Alison"
   • "Living a Little, Laughing a Little" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed)
   • "Tracks of My Tears" (William "Smokey" Robinson Jr., Warren Moore, Marvin Tarplin)
   • "Tears of a Clown" (Stevie Wonder, Hank Cosby, Robinson)
   • "No More Tearstained Make-Up" (Robinson)
   • "Clowntime is Over"

Personnel

• Elvis Costello - guitar, vocals
• Steve Nieve - piano

with:

• Pete Thomas - drums on "Man Out of Time" and "Shallow Grave"

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Costello & Nieve at AllMusic
2. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Costello, Elvis". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). London: Omnibus Press. ISBN   978-0-85712-595-8.