Elvis Costello To Release Soundtrack For His Own Story

Elvis Costello has put together a new 2-CD set that he says is a soundtrack to his upcoming memoir.

Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album, which will be out on October 9 via UMe, sees Costello choose songs that offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book. The memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, will be out four days later via Blue Rider Press/Penguin Random House.

The set includes both hits and rarities including two previously-unreleased titles: April 5th – written and recorded with Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson and John Leventhal – and one of Costello’s earliest solo recordings, I Can’t Turn It Off, from 1975.

The collection also features three exclusive “audio book sketches” – that do not appear in the published memoir – and a 28-page booklet providing the complete lyrics and many unseen photographs, several of them from the MacManus family album.

The track list:

Disc 1
Accidents Will Happen (Live) – Elvis Costello And Steve Nieve
Poison Moon – Elvis Costello
Watching The Detectives – Elvis Costello
Oliver’s Army – Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Riot Act – Elvis Costello And The Attractions
New Lace Sleeves – Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Man Out Of Time – Elvis Costello And The Attractions
I Want You – Elvis Costello And The Attractions
When I Was Cruel No.2 – Elvis Costello
Stranger In The House – George Jones With Elvis Costello
Beyond Belief – Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Home Truth – Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Indoor Fireworks – The Costello Show Featuring His Confederates
Shipbuilding – Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Cinco Minutos Con Vos – Elvis Costello And The Roots
Bedlam – Elvis Costello And The Imposters
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror – Elvis Costello
Ascension Day – Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
Red Cotton – Elvis Costello And The Sugarcanes

Disc 2
Veronica [Demo] – Elvis Costello
In The Darkest Place – Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach
I Want To Vanish – Elvis Costello And The Attractions
My Dark Life – Elvis Costello With Brian Eno
The Other Side Of Summer – Elvis Costello
London’s Brilliant Parade – Elvis Costello
Ghost Train – Elvis Costello
Suit Of Lights – The Costello Show Featuring His Confederates
Jimmie Standing In The Rain – Elvis Costello And The Sugarcanes
The Birds Will Still Be Singing – Elvis Costello And The Brodsky Quartet
Wise Up Ghost – Elvis Costello And The Roots
Almost Blue – Elvis Costello And The Attractions
All The Rage – Elvis Costello
Couldn’t Call It Unexpected No. 4 – Elvis Costello
Alison – Elvis Costello
My Three Sons – Elvis Costello And The Imposters
I’m In The Mood Again – Elvis Costello
April 5th – Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello And Kris Kristofferson (Previously Unreleased)
I Can’t Turn It Off – D.P. Costello (Previously Unreleased)
Sketches From Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink – Elvis Costello