King of America & Other Realms

Across 6CDs, Elvis Costello: King of America & Other Realms traces his musical travels from Hollywood – where the King Of America album was recorded in 1986 – to a brand new take on “Brilliant Mistake” cut in Cape Fear early in 2024, via Costello’s recording adventures in New Orleans, Oxford and Clarksdale, Mississippi, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee and guided by Costello’s own 35-page essay which includes numerous rare and never-before seen photos.   
The collection is anchored by CD1: a new 2024 remaster of the album King Of America from the original master tapes. CD2 collects the solo demos from 1985 including six performances from the unheard Red Bus Studios session. CD3 is a never heard before 17-song concert recorded in 1987 at The Royal Albert Hall in London. The set closes with a 3CD digest of Costello’s studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes & live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey. 

Tracklists

DISC 1 – KING OF AMERICA (2024 REMASTER)
1. Brilliant Mistake
2. Lovable
3. Our Little Angel
4. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
5. Glitter Gulch
6. Indoor Fireworks
7. Little Palaces
8. I'll Wear It Proudly
9. American Without Tears
10. Eisenhower Blues
11. Poisoned Rose
12. The Big Light
13. Jack Of All Parades
14. Suit Of Lights
15. Sleep Of The Just

DISC 2 – LE ROI SANS SABOTS
Demos, Outtakes & Other Realms
1. The People's Limousine – The Coward Brothers
2. Next Time Round (Red Bus Demo) *
3. Deportee (Red Bus Demo) *
4. Brilliant Mistake (Red Bus Demo) *
5. Suffering Face (Solo Demo)
6. Poisoned Rose (Solo Demo)
7. Jack Of All Parades (Solo Demo)
8. Sleep of the Just (Red Bus Demo) *
9. Blue Chair (Red Bus Demo) *
10. I Hope You're Happy Now (Solo Demo)
11. I'll Wear It Proudly (Solo Demo)
12. Indoor Fireworks (Solo Demo)
13. Having It All (Solo Demo)
14. Shoes Without Heels (Red Bus Demo) *
15. King Of Confidence (Outtake)
16. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me – The Coward Brothers 
17. American Without Tears No. 2 (Twilight Version)

DISC 3 - KINGS OF AMERICA LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
Royal Albert Hall 27th January 1987
1. The Big Light *
2. Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line *
3. Our Little Angel *
4. It Tears Me Up *
5. I'll Wear It Proudly *
6. Lovable *
7. Riverboat *
8. Sally Sue Brown/36-22-36 *
9. American Without Tears *
10. Brilliant Mistake *
11. What Would I Do Without You? *
12. You're Mind's On Vacation / Your Funeral, My Trial *
13. Pouring Water On A Drowning Man *
14. Payday *
15. That's How You Got Killed Before (Reprise) *
16. Sleep Of The Just *
17. True Love Ways *

DISC 4 – IL PRINCIPE DI NEW ORLEANS E LE MARCHESE DEL MISSISSIPPI
1. There’s A Story In Your Voice – with Lucinda Williams
2. Country Darkness
3. The Delivery Man
4. Nothing Clings Like Ivy
5. Heart Shaped Bruise – with Emmylou Harris (Live At The Hi-Tone, Memphis **
6. Bedlam (Live At Montreal Jazz) **
7. Either Side Of The Same Town
8. Wonder Woman
9. In Another Room (The Clarkdale Sessions)
10. The Monkey * - Rehearsal with Dave Bartholomew & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
11. Monkey To Man
12. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
13. Clown Strike (Live At Montreal Jazz) **
14. Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further?
15. The River In Reverse
16. The Greatest Love – from Treme * 
17. Ascension Day

DISC 5 – EL PRÍNCIPE DEL PURGATORIO
1. Stations Of The Cross
2. Quick Like A Flash (Unreleased Version) *
3. Sulphur To Sugarcane 
4. Red Cotton
5. Lost On The River #12
6. A Slow Drag With Josephine
7. I Felt The Chill 
8. Complicated Shadows (Cashbox Version)
9. She's Pulling Out The Pin
10. Condemned Man (Demo) *
11. Hidden Shame
12. Red Wicked Wine – with Dr. Ralph Stanley
13. The Scarlet Tide – with Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings (Live at the Grand Ole Opry) *
14. One Bell Ringing
15. Bullets For The New Born King
16. All These Strangers
17. For More Tears (Demo) *
18. You Hung The Moon

DISC 6 – DER HERZOG DES RAMPENLICHT
1. Stella Hurt
2. Mr. Feathers
3. Under Lime
4. Jimmie Standing In The Rain
5. Down Among The Wines And Spirits
6. Dr. Watson, I Presume
7. Church Underground (Demo) *
8. A Voice In The Dark
9. April 5th – with Rosanne Cash & Kris Kristofferson
10. Indoor Fireworks (Memphis Magnetic Version) *
11. That’s Not The Part Of Him You’re Leaving – with Larkin Poe *
12. Brilliant Mistake/Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Cape Fear Version) *
13. That Day Is Done – with The Fairfield Four
* previously unreleased 
** first-ever audio release