Elvis Costello - VH-1 Storytellers, VH-1 Storytellers Studio, New York City, 5-29-1996

Here's yet another "VH-1 Storytellers" album. This one features British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello.

In 1996, Costello released "All This Useless Beauty," his seventeenth studio album. It wasn't a big seller, but it was critically well received. It was the last album done with his backing band the Attractions. However, this concert was basically done in a solo acoustic style, as he was only backed by keyboard player Steve Nieve.

Three songs performed here are from the "All This Useless Beauty" album: "Why Can't a Man Stand Alone," "All This Useless Beauty," and "I Want to Vanish."

For these Storytellers albums, I'm assuming that everything is officially unreleased. But for this one, the performance of "Just a Memory" was released. It was included on a various artists compilation of the Storytellers series.

All too often, these episodes started in the middle of the first song. That was the case with this one, "Accidents Will Happen." But in this case, I was able to find another version from the same year to fill in the missing portion.

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 Accidents Will Happen [Edit] (Elvis Costello)
02 Just a Memory (Elvis Costello)
03 talk (Elvis Costello)
04 Why Can't a Man Stand Alone (Elvis Costello)
05 talk (Elvis Costello)
06 Mistress and Maid (Elvis Costello)
07 talk (Elvis Costello)
08 Veronica (Elvis Costello)
09 talk (Elvis Costello)
10 Alison (Elvis Costello)
11 talk (Elvis Costello)
12 Almost Blue (Elvis Costello)
13 talk (Elvis Costello)
14 Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello)
15 talk (Elvis Costello)
16 All This Useless Beauty (Elvis Costello)
17 talk (Elvis Costello)
18 I Want to Vanish (Elvis Costello)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17157456/ELVSCOSTLLO1996StrytllrsStrytllrsStdoNwYrkC__5-29-1996_atse.zip.html

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https://pixeldrain.com/u/PS5UZf6r

I couldn't find a good photo from this exact concert. So instead the cover photo is from a concert in Switzerland some time in 1996.