National Ransom by Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello is back with members of the Imposters and Sugarcanes to present us with a bit of bluegrass meets rock’n’roll. His album harks back to the US financial crisis of the 1930s, a bit of history repeating itself, Costello says.

Blast from the past Leon Russell, the session musician for just about everyone from the mid-1960s through to the 1990s, plays the punchy keyboards here; T Bone Burnett is producer. Probably for serious Costello fans only.