Editing Elvis Costello (section)

=== 2000s ===
[[File:Elvis Costello 15 June 2005.jpg|thumb|right|Costello performing at Glastonbury, 2005]]
[[File:Elvis costello.jpg|thumb|Costello performing in 2006]]

From 2001 to 2005, Costello re-issued his back catalogue in the US, from ''My Aim Is True'' (1977) to ''All This Useless Beauty'' (1996), on double-disc collections on the [[Rhino Records]] label. These releases, which each contained second discs of bonus material, ultimately fell out of print by 2007 after Universal Music acquired the rights to Costello's catalogue. Universal subsequently released new deluxe editions of ''My Aim Is True'' and ''This Year's Model'' with new bonus material of full-length concerts from the time of each album's release. These deluxe editions also fell out of print and Universal has reverted to re-releasing Costello's pre-1987 albums in their original context without bonus material.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

In 2000, Costello wrote lyrics to "Green Song", a solo cello piece by [[Svante Henryson]]; this song appears on the Anne Sofie von Otter album ''[[For the Stars]]''.

In 2000, Costello appeared at [[The Town Hall (New York City)|the Town Hall]], New York, in Steve Nieve's opera ''[[Welcome to the Voice]]'', alongside [[Ron Sexsmith]] and [[John Flansburgh]] of [[They Might Be Giants]]. In 2001, Costello was artist-in-residence at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] and wrote the music for a new ballet. He produced and appeared on an album of pop songs for the classical singer [[Anne Sofie von Otter]]. He released the album ''[[When I Was Cruel]]'' in 2002 on [[Island Records]], and toured with a new band, the Imposters (essentially the Attractions but with a different bass player, [[Davey Faragher]], formerly of [[Cracker (band)|Cracker]]).

On 23 February 2003, Costello, along with [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[Steven Van Zandt]] and [[Dave Grohl]], performed a version of [[The Clash]]'s "[[London Calling (song)|London Calling]]" at the 45th Grammy Awards ceremony, in honour of Clash frontman [[Joe Strummer]], who had died the previous December.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/17-bruce-springsteen-collaborations-from-chuck-berry-to-lada-gaga-20110124/london-calling-with-dave-grohl-and-elvis-costello-0751054 |title=Great Bruce Springsteen Collaborations: 'London Calling' With Dave Grohl and Elvis Costello |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=27 September 2015 |archive-date=29 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929054412/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/17-bruce-springsteen-collaborations-from-chuck-berry-to-lada-gaga-20110124/london-calling-with-dave-grohl-and-elvis-costello-0751054 |url-status=live}}</ref> In March, Elvis Costello & the Attractions were inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]].<ref name="RaRHoF" /> In May, he announced his engagement to Canadian [[jazz]] singer and pianist [[Diana Krall]], whom he had seen in concert and then met backstage at the [[Sydney Opera House]] in Australia. That September, he released [[North (Elvis Costello album)|''North'']], an album of piano-based ballads concerning the breakdown of his former marriage, and his falling in love with Krall.

The song "Scarlet Tide" (co-written by Costello and T&nbsp;Bone Burnett and used in the film ''[[Cold Mountain (film)|Cold Mountain]]'') was nominated for a [[Academy Awards|2004 Academy Award]]; he performed it at the awards ceremony with [[Alison Krauss]], who sang the song on the official soundtrack. Costello co-wrote many songs on Krall's 2004 CD, ''[[The Girl in the Other Room]]'', the first of hers to feature several original compositions. In July 2004, Costello's first full-scale orchestral work, ''[[Il Sogno]]'', was performed in New York. The work, a ballet based on [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', was commissioned by Italian dance troupe Aterballeto, and received critical acclaim from classical music critics. Performed by the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], conducted by [[Michael Tilson Thomas]], the recording was released on CD in September by [[Deutsche Grammophon]]. In September 2004, Costello released the album ''[[The Delivery Man (album)|The Delivery Man]]'', recorded in [[Oxford, Mississippi]], on [[Lost Highway Records]], and it was hailed as one of his best.

[[File:Elvis Costello - European Walk of Fame.jpg|thumb|left|Costello's hand prints on the European Walk of Fame, [[Rotterdam]]]]
A CD recording of a collaboration with [[Marian McPartland]] on her show ''[[Piano Jazz]]'' was released in 2005. It featured Costello singing six jazz standards and two of his own songs, accompanied by McPartland on piano.

A 2005 tour included a gig at [[Glastonbury]] that Costello considered so dreadful that he said "I don't care if I ever play England again. That gig made up my mind I wouldn't come back. I don't get along with it. We lost touch. It's 25 years since I lived there. I don't dig it, they don't dig me....British music fans don't have the same attitude to age as they do in America, where young people come to check out, say [[Willie Nelson]]. They feel some connection with him and find a role for that music in their lives".<ref name="indep07">{{cite news |title=Goodbye, cruel UK: Elvis Costello turns his back on his native land |work=The Independent |location=UK |date=8 November 2007 |first=Amol |last=Rajan |access-date=6 November 2010 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/goodbye-cruel-uk-elvis-costello-turns-his-back-on-his-native-land-399429.html |archive-date=9 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109191656/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/goodbye-cruel-uk-elvis-costello-turns-his-back-on-his-native-land-399429.html }}</ref>

In 2005, Costello performed with [[Green Day]] frontman [[Billie Joe Armstrong]]. They played both Costello and Green Day songs together, including "[[Alison (song)|Alison]]", "[[This Year's Model|No Action]]", "[[Basket Case (song)|Basket Case]]" and "[[Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)]]".

In November, Costello started recording a new album with [[Allen Toussaint]] and producer [[Joe Henry]]. Costello had a collaborative history with Toussaint, beginning with a couple of scattered album tracks in the 1980s.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/arts/music/12elvi.html |title=Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint: A Bouncy Take on the Grim |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=21 September 2013 |first=Nate |last=Chinen |date=12 July 2006|archive-date=15 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115062928/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/arts/music/12elvi.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2006, Costello and Allen Toussaint performed in New York at a series of benefit concerts for victims of [[Hurricane Katrina]].<ref name="nytimes.com"/> By week's end, Costello had written ''[[The River in Reverse]]'', performed it with Toussaint and discussed plans for an album with Verve Records executives. Costello turned to older songs to reflect the national malaise at the time.<ref name="nytimes.com"/>

In a studio recording of Nieve's opera ''Welcome to the Voice'' (2006, Deutsche Grammophon), Costello interpreted the character of Chief of Police, with [[Barbara Bonney]], Robert Wyatt, [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] and [[Amanda Roocroft]], and the album reached No.&nbsp;2 in the ''Billboard'' classical charts. Costello later reprised the piece on the stage of the [[Théâtre du Châtelet]] in Paris in 2008, with Sting, [[Joe Sumner]] (Sting's son) and Sylvia Schwartz. Also released in 2006 was a live recording of a concert with the Metropole Orkest at the [[North Sea Jazz Festival]], entitled ''My Flame Burns Blue''. The soundtrack for ''[[House (TV series)|House, M.D.]]'' featured Costello's interpretation of "Beautiful" by [[Christina Aguilera]], with the song appearing in the second episode of Season 2.

Costello was commissioned to write a [[chamber opera]] by the Danish Royal Opera, [[Copenhagen]], on the subject of [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s infatuation with Swedish soprano [[Jenny Lind]]. Called ''The Secret Songs'', it remained unfinished.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-costello-idUKTRE54E5WH20090515 |title=Elvis Costello Reveals 'Secret' New Album' |agency=Reuters |first=Gary |last=Graff |date=15 May 2009 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=6 July 2021 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203221903/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-costello-idUKTRE54E5WH20090515 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In a performance in 2007 directed by [[Kasper Bech Holten]] at the Opera's studio theatre ([[Takkelloftet|Takelloftet]]), finished songs were interspersed with pieces from Costello's 1993 collaborative classical album ''The Juliet Letters'', featuring Danish soprano Sine Bundgaard as Lind. The 2009 album ''[[Secret, Profane & Sugarcane]]'' includes material from ''Secret Songs''.

On 22 April 2008, ''[[Momofuku (album)|Momofuku]]'' was released on Lost Highway Records, the same imprint that released ''The Delivery Man'', his previous studio album. The album was, at least initially, released exclusively on vinyl (with a code to download a digital copy). That summer, in support of the album, Costello toured with [[the Police]] on the final leg of their [[The Police Reunion Tour|2007/2008 Reunion Tour]]. Costello played a homecoming gig at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on 25 June 2006.<ref>{{cite web |first=Jade |last=Wright |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/echo-entertainment/2008/02/05/elvis-costello-show-at-the-phil-is-sure-to-be-a-classic-100252-20437846/ |title=Elvis Costello Show at the Philharmonic |work=Liverpool Echo |date=5 February 2008 |access-date=10 August 2010 |archive-date=9 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109154308/http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/echo-entertainment/2008/02/05/elvis-costello-show-at-the-phil-is-sure-to-be-a-classic-100252-20437846/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and, that month, gave his first performance in Poland, appearing with The Imposters for the closing gig of the [[Lake Malta|Malta]] theatre festival in [[Poznań]].
In 2006, Costello performed with [[Fiona Apple]] in the Decades Rock TV special. Apple performed two Costello songs and Costello performed two Apple songs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/TV_2006-07-21_Decades_Rock_Live |title=TV – Decades Rock Live |date=21 July 2006 |website=Elviscostello.info |publisher=The Elvis Costello Wiki |access-date=2 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044548/http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/TV_2006-07-21_Decades_Rock_Live |archive-date=6 March 2019 }}</ref>

In 2007, Costello collaborated with the Argentinean/Uruguayan [[Electro music|electro]]-[[tango (music)|tango]] band [[Bajofondo]] on the song "Fairly Right" from the album ''[[Mar Dulce (album)|Mar Dulce]]''. In 2008, Costello collaborated with [[Fall Out Boy]] on the track "[[What a Catch, Donnie]]" from their album ''[[Folie a Deux (album)|Folie a Deux]]''. In [[Jenny Lewis]]' 2008 release, ''[[Acid Tongue]]'', Costello provided vocals for the song "Carpetbaggers". In November 2009, Costello appeared live with [[Bruce Springsteen]] and the [[E Street Band]] at [[Madison Square Garden]] and performed the [[Jackie Wilson]] song "[[(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher]]".<ref>{{cite news |first=Stan |last=Goldstein |url=http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf/2009/11/a_classic_show_by_bruce_spring.html |title=A classic show by Bruce Springsteen at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night |work=The Star-Ledger |access-date=30 July 2011 |archive-date=14 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111114134514/http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf/2009/11/a_classic_show_by_bruce_spring.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

In July 2008, Costello (as Declan McManus) appeared in his home city Liverpool where he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Music from the [[University of Liverpool]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Elvis Costello gets his degree at last |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/elvis-costello-gets-degree-last-3480425 |newspaper=[[Liverpool Echo]] |date=8 May 2013 |access-date=4 November 2015 |archive-date=30 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151230042423/http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/elvis-costello-gets-degree-last-3480425 |url-status=live}}</ref> Costello was featured on [[Fall Out Boy]]'s 2008 album ''[[Folie à Deux (album)|Folie à Deux]]'', providing vocals on the track "[[What a Catch, Donnie]]", along with other artists who are friends with the band.

Costello appeared in [[Stephen Colbert]]'s television special ''[[A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All]]''. In the program, he was eaten by a bear, but later saved by [[Santa Claus]]; he also sang a duet with Colbert. The special was first aired on 23 November 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2008/11/a-colbert-christmas-premieres-sunday.html |title=A Colbert Christmas Premieres Sunday! |work=Comedy Central Insider |publisher=[[Comedy Central]] |date=17 November 2008 |access-date=10 August 2010 |archive-date=21 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090121012712/http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2008/11/a-colbert-christmas-premieres-sunday.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Costello released ''[[Secret, Profane & Sugarcane]]'', a collaboration with [[T&nbsp;Bone Burnett]], on 9 June 2009. It was his first on the Starbucks Hear Music label and a return to country music in the manner of "Good Year for the Roses".

[[File:Elvis Costello in 2012.jpg|thumb|240px|right|Costello performing in tribute to music legends [[Chuck Berry]] and [[Leonard Cohen]], who were the recipients of the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting excellence, at the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum|JFK Presidential Library]], in Boston, Massachusetts on 26 February 2012]]

In May 2009, Costello made a surprise cameo appearance on-stage at the [[Beacon Theatre (New York City)|Beacon Theatre]] in New York as part of [[Spinal Tap (band)|Spinal Tap's]] ''Unwigged and Unplugged'' show, singing their fictional 1965 hit "Gimme Some Money" with the band backing him up.

In December 2009, Costello portrayed The Shape on the album ''[[Ghost Brothers of Darkland County]]'', a collaboration between rock singer [[John Mellencamp]] and novelist [[Stephen King]]. In February 2010, Costello appeared in the live [[cinecast]] of [[Garrison Keillor]]'s ''[[Prairie Home Companion]]'', singing some of his own songs, and participating in many of the show's other musical and acting performances. On 30 April 2011, he played the song "Pump it Up" with [[the Odds]] before the start of a [[Vancouver Canucks]] playoff game at [[Rogers Arena]] in Vancouver, British Columbia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://video.canucks.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=805&id=112694 |title=Quick clip: Elvis Costello Performs Apr.30.11 Video – NHL VideoCenter – Vancouver Canucks |publisher=National Hockey League |date=30 April 2011 |access-date=30 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901074059/https://video.canucks.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=805&id=112694 |archive-date=1 September 2011}}</ref>