North
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Release Date: 09/23/2003 12:00
To celebrate his romance with jazz singer Diana Krall (they married in December 2003), Costello wrote his dullest-ever set of original songs: dreary piano ballads, smoothly sung, with a tasteful orchestra on a few tracks. The standards he has written are a lot livelier.
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