With his new album, National Ransom, out in the U.K. this past week — and due to arrive on these shores on Tuesday — Elvis Costello dropped by the studios of BBC’s Radio 4 on Thursday to chat with host John Wilson and play this track, “Jimmie Standing in the Rain,” off the new record. Read more about the album here, plus you can listen to Wilson’s interview with Costello here.
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Video: Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe play ‘Peace, Love and Understanding’ in S.F.
- Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe to perform ‘Costello Sings Lowe/Nick Sings Elvis’
- Elvis Costello is 56 today; watch BBC special about ‘Spike’ from 1989
- Elvis Costello’s ‘National Ransom’ due Nov. 2, features Vince Gill, T Bone Burnett
