ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS WITH CHARLIE SEXTON

Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton perform The Early Songs of Elvis Costello on their Summer 2025 Tour, Radio Soul! Coming to the Duke Energy Center for the Arts – Mahaffey Theater on Wednesday, July 9 at 8pm. Elvis Costello is the composer or lyricist of over six hundred published titles, including fifteen songs co-written with Paul McCartney and renowned collaborations with Allen Toussaint, the Brodsky Quartet and T Bone Burnett. Costello’s songwriting alliance with Burt Bacharach, began in 1995 with the song, “God Give Me Strength,” which led to the 1998 album, “Painted From Memory,” before their work was collected in 2023, on the four-album set, “The Songs Of Bacharach & Costello.” Elvis Costello songs have been recorded by Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Chet Baker, Dusty Springfield, Solomon Burke, George Jones, Linda Ronstadt and Bjork, while among the artists with whom he has written songs are Loretta Lynn, Carole King, Rosanne Cash and Kris Kristofferson and his wife, Diana Krall. Working purely as lyricists, Costello has provided words for the music of Billy Strayhorn, Oscar Peterson and for twelve Charles Mingus compositions and as a composer, set twelve unpublished lyrics by Bob Dylan Costello currently performs with The Imposters; his long time companions, drummer, Pete Thomas and pianist, Steve Nieve, bassist of twenty-three years standing, Davey Faragher and their special guest, Texas guitarist, Charlie Sexton.