{"id":75886,"date":"2022-05-30T13:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=75886"},"modified":"2022-05-30T13:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:17:21","slug":"elvis-costello-and-allan-mayes-reunite-for-rusty-the-resurrection-of-rust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/05\/elvis-costello-and-allan-mayes-reunite-for-rusty-the-resurrection-of-rust\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Costello And Allan Mayes Reunite For Rusty: \u2018The Resurrection of Rust\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elvis Costello and his partner in his first band Rusty, Allan Mayes, have reunited for, as Costello puts it, \u201cthe record we would have cut when we were 18, if anyone had let us.”<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Costello – then, D.P. MacManus – joined Mayes\u2019 band Rusty on New Year’s Day 1972, and while for the next twelve months they played dozens of gigs, from almost deserted clubs to one of Liverpool’s most beautiful Victorian recital halls and even ventured into the unknown lands, near Widnes, they never made it to the recording studio.

\u2018The Resurrection of Rust\u2019 comprises newly recorded renditions of six songs drawn from Rusty\u2019s 1972 set lists: duets on two 1972, Nick Lowe tunes, ‘Surrender To The Rhythm’, and ‘Don\u2019t Lose Your Grip On Love’, Kentucky songwriter Jim Ford\u2019s, ‘I\u2019m Ahead If I Can Quit While I\u2019m Behind’, and two originals; ‘Warm House’ (written by D.P. MacManus” in 1971), and ‘Maureen and Sam’ (a musical collaboration by Mayes and MacManus) 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.

\u2018The Resurrection of Rust\u2019, produced by Elvis Costello and Sebastian Krys and featuring Costello and Mayes backed by Costello\u2019s band the Imposters, will be for sale on CD at Costello\u2019s in-person events and concerts beginning last night, May 29th in Leeds, (see tour dates below). It will be available on CD and digitally in the UK on June 10th, to be followed by vinyl release later this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Costello tells the full story:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, my pal and singing partner in the Liverpool clubs, Allan Mayes wrote to me from his home in Austin, Texas.

He wanted to remind me that it would soon be fifty years since I joined his band, \u201cRusty\u201d, just after our first meeting at a party on New Year\u2019s Eve, 1971.

The group was then a quartet, with Allan\u2019s school friend, Alan Brown \u2010 who would play bass until he left for university later that year \u2010 and there was also another vocalist called \u201cDave\u201d, whose main credentials as a singer were the ownership of a microphone and tambourine.

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.

Show business is a cruel game.

We would rehearse in my bedroom in West Derby or at Allan\u2019s house in the shadow of Walton Gaol, where his father was a medical officer, working our way through two pretty similar stacks of mostly American albums, looking for songs to sing.

Our repertoire did include a few of our own compositions \u2010 lyrics written in various shades of purple \u2010 but they were often put in the shade by the songs of Neil Young, Van Morrison and two Bob Dylan tunes; one made famous by The Byrds and the other co\u2010written, by Rick Danko of The Band. We played tunes by Randy Newman, John Martyn and the psychedelic band, Help Yourself.

One of our early duets was David Crosby\u2019s epic, \u201cWooden Ships\u201d before which Allan would jokingly ask if I had my lucky rabbit\u2019s foot about me, as I was about to venture into an unsteady guitar solo on my amplified Harmony Sovereign.

Our secret weapon was certainly a stack of Nick Lowe\u2019s songs written for Brinsley Schwarz, which were not so very well\u2010known then. I think some casual listeners might have actually imagined we\u2019d written them and I can\u2019t say we always corrected this misapprehension but I suppose we\u2019d acted as unpaid pitchmen for Nick by the time we met him, when the Brinsleys came to play \u201cThe Cavern\u201d.

For the next year or so Rusty played the folk clubs and pubs on either side of the Mersey, acting as a musical interlude at poetry evenings organized by Harold and Sylvia Hikins or provided background music to nervous conversation at a lonely hearts gathering held in the RAF Club on Bold Street.

We were paid exactly nothing for playing \u201cMary Help Of Christians\u201d \u2010 a Catholic girls school, known locally as \u201cMary Feed The Pigeons\u201d \u2010 and opened up for the Natural Acoustic Band at John Lennon\u2019s old school, Quarry Bank High and then for the Irish duo, Tir Na Nog, in the little recital room at St. George\u2019s Hall, where Charles Dickens had once given a public reading. That show was on the eve of my rainy departure for the Bickershaw Festival at which I contracted something close to trench foot while watching the Grateful Dead in a sodden field.

We even took one fairly disastrous booking as a wedding band on Cantril Farm for which we hired a drummer and had to rescue the night with an impromptu medley of Chuck Berry songs.

When teenage girls at our Friday night pub residency, in nearby Widnes, demanded the hits of Slade and T.Rex, we tried to ease their hunger for Marc Bolan with a couple of Lindisfarne songs, which were at least in the pop charts.

It was all part of learning your trade as we were certainly only earning enough money to put petrol in Allan\u2019s Ford Anglia and, failing this, ran our own musical evenings until the club owner of \u201cThe Yankee Clipper\u201d realized that our Tuesday night crowd only nursed one pint of beer all night and didn\u2019t put enough in the till to pay either the barman or the electricity bill and we were sent on our way to find safer harbour at \u201cThe Temple Bar\u201d.

Nevertheless, by the summer of \u201972 we were playing up to five or six nights a week. I was still at school, supposedly studying for my A\u2010Levels. Once I got a job, we had to schedule our Rusty gigs around my shift work as a computer operator until early in 1973, when I decided to leave Liverpool looking for something and took to this long and crooked road.

I asked if Allan wanted to come with me but I had a place to live with my Dad and he had a steady job to give up and I suppose I thought we might travel lighter and further alone.

Allan had always been the more accomplished, presentable performer \u2010 even then, I looked like a sack of spuds that had been left out in the rain. He continued to play the local club circuit after I left town, took over a group he re\u2010named, \u201cRestless\u201d (formerly \u201cSevered Head\u201d) and even made raids down from Merseyside to hit the London pub circuit of 1975 and found themselves playing the same venue and same week as my own semi\u2010pro band, Flip City. Allan recorded a solo album in the early 80s before traveling the world, playing on cruise ships in the Pacific and in oil worker bars in Alaska, before settling in Texas, where he still plays other people\u2019s songs that other people want to hear in a strong true voice.

Allan Mayes has been a hard working musician for more than the fifty years since we met.

So, when he asked me if I wanted to celebrate this anniversary by getting together to play a few songs that we used to know.

I said, \u201cAbsolutely not!\u201d

\u201cLet\u2019s make the record we would have cut when we were 18, if anyone had let us\u201d.

And this is what you will hear on \u201cThe Resurrection Of Rust\u201d.

The E.P. contains new renditions of songs from our 1972 club repertoire; our duets on two Nick Lowe tunes from 1972; \u201cSurrender To The Rhythm\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Lose Your Grip On Love\u201d\u2010 and closes with an arrangement incorporating Neil Young\u2019s \u201cEverybody Knows This Is Nowhere\u201d and \u201cDance, Dance, Dance\u201d which marks my recording debut on the electric violin.

The stand out for me is Allan\u2019s touching rendition of \u201cI\u2019m Ahead If I Can Quit While I\u2019m Behind\u201d, a song written by the Kentucky songwriter, Jim Ford, who wrote hits for Aretha Franklin, P.J. Proby and Bobby Womack.

Most of our own early compositions from the Rusty days exist only in lyrical form, scrawled in our old notebooks, the tunes long forgotten but we did have a reel\u2010to\u2010reel demo of \u201cWarm House\u201d, a song which I began when I was 17 and which could be found in nearly all of our set lists and found here with full vocal and band arrangement driven by mandolin.

Remarkably, Allan still has an old school exercise book in which he kept a record of all the venues we ever played. \u201cThe Resurrection Of Rust\u201d record sleeve is decorated with a collage of flyers, posters, playbills and diary entries of the time along with some of our setlist from that exercise book which also acted as an accounts ledger for our rather modest earnings, hitting the heady heights of \u00a317 \u2010 our largest fee coming at our very final gig, opening up for Cockney Rebel \u2010 but frequently amounting to no more than a couple of quid and with several dispiriting entries which read: \u201cPaid: Nil\u201d.

The second original tune is a co\u2010written portrait of a struggling cabaret act called, \u201cMaureen and Sam\u201d, the verses are taken by Allan with very spare accompaniment before I arrive in the bridges with a distorted electric guitar, piano, bass and drums, all of which I recorded in the basement of Sentry Sound.

Keen listeners may recognize the theme of this song as one I re\u2010wrote as \u201cGhost Train\u201d and recorded in 1980, changing \u201cSam\u201d to \u201cStan\u201d and setting my new lyric to an entirely different melody.

Allan and I quickly re\u2010discovered the vocal blend that convinced us that we might conquer the world (or at least Widnes) when we were teenagers but to bring Rusty into the 21st Century, I enlisted the talents of The Imposters and we were delighted to invite our old pal, Bob Andrews, to revisit his signature Hammond organ and piano parts on the Brinsley Schwarz showstopper, \u201cSurrender To The Rhythm\u201d.

Like most things today, these sessions connected Sentry Sound, Vancouver with Austin, TX, Santa Fe, NM and Los Angeles, CA by the magic of the musical telegraph.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

‘The Resurrection Of Rust’ was produced by Elvis Costello and Sebastian Krys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upcoming Elvis Costello & The Imposters UK Shows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK Out Store Shows<\/strong>
May\/June<\/strong>
Sun 29th         Leeds, Brudenell (Crash Records)
Mon 30th        Nottingham, Metronome (Rough Trade)
Weds 1st         Bristol, St George\u2019s Church (Bristol)
Thu 2nd        Bexhill, De La War Pavillion (Music\u2019s Not Dead)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK Headline Tour<\/strong>
June<\/strong>
Sun 5th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Brighton, Brighton Dome
Tue 7th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Glasgow, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Wed 8th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Newcastle, O2 City Hall
Fri 10th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Liverpool, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Sat 11th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Manchester, Opera House
Mon 13th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Birmingham, Symphony Hall
Tue 14th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Leicester, De Montfort Hall
Thu 16th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Oxford, New Theatre Oxford
Fri 17th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Bath, The Forum
Sun 19th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Portsmouth, Portsmouth Guildhall
Mon 20th\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Swansea, Swansea Arena
Wed 22nd\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Ipswich, Regent Theatre
Thu 23rd\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0London, Eventim Apollo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out more information online on Elvis Costello’s Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, and his official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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