A month later, after a couple of pretty ragged gigs, Allan and I became the only vocalists and there was not a tambourine in sight. The group was then a quartet, with Allan’s school friend, Alan Brown - who would play bass until he left for university later that year - and there was also another vocalist called Dave, whose main credentials as a singer were the ownership of a microphone and tambourine. He wanted to remind me that it would soon be 50 years since I joined his band, Rusty, just after our first meeting at a party on New Year’s Eve, 1971.
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MacManus - in 1971 and the collaboration Maureen and Sam) and, finally, an arrangement incorporating the Neil Young songs Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Dance, Dance, Dance, the latter witnessing Costello’s debut on the electric violin.Ĭostello tells the full story: In 2021, my pal and singing partner in the Liverpool clubs, Allan Mayes, wrote to me from his home in Austin, Tex. The Resurrection of Rust comprises newly recorded renditions of six songs drawn from Rusty’s 1972 set lists: Duets on two 1972 Nick Lowe tunes ( Surrender To The Rhythm and Don’t Lose Your Grip On Love), Kentucky songwriter Jim Ford’s I’m Ahead If I Can Quit While I’m Behind, two originals ( Warm House, written by Costello - then D.P. T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ Elvis Costello and his partner in his first band Rusty, Allan Mayes, have reunited for, as Costello puts it, “the record we would have cut when we were 18, if anyone had let us.” The Resurrection of Rust was produced by Costello and Sebastian Krys and featuring Costello and Mayes backed by Costello’s band The Imposters.
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