Editing Elvis Costello (section)

==== Rusty ====
At the beginning of 1972, Costello was invited to join a [[Folk rock|folk-rock]] band called Rusty by the band's founder, an 18-year-old veteran of the Liverpool music scene named Allan Mayes.{{sfn|Thomson|2004|p=25}} As other members left, Rusty soon became a duo, with Mayes and Costello singing and playing acoustic guitars.{{sfn|Thomson|2004|p=27}} For a little over a year, Rusty played regularly in small venues like pubs, clubs, schools, and community centres, mostly in and around Liverpool, unpaid or for small amounts of money.{{sfn|Thomson|2004|pp=27–28}} In Mayes's estimation, Costello was already a talented songwriter, able to quickly write songs in a variety of styles, and could sing like [[Neil Young]] or [[Robbie Robertson]].{{sfn|Thomson|2004|p=27}} Mayes has said he introduced Costello to [[Brinsley Schwarz]], a band that would be an important influence on him.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Mayes|first=Allan|date=October 1995|title=Brinsley Schwarz, Silver Pistol|magazine=Q|volume=109}}</ref> While in Rusty, Costello wrote an early version of a song he would record in 1980 as "Ghost Train", although by then little remained of the Rusty version except the central narrative idea of a married [[double act]] making their way through the low end of show business.{{sfn|Costello|2015|p=125}} In 2022, Costello reunited with Mayes to record and release an EP called ''[[The Resurrection of Rust]]''. The EP contained songs that were typical of Rusty's shows in 1972, including the early version of "Ghost Train", then called "Maureen and Sam".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Greene |first=Andy |date=30 May 2022 |title=Elvis Costello Reunites With Teenage Bandmate for Nostalgic LP 'Rusty: The Resurrection of Rust' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elvis-costello-reunites-bandmate-rusty-the-resurrection-of-rust-1359937/ |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref>{{efn|Rusty's version of the song was co-written by Mayes and Costello, but by the time Costello recorded it as "Ghost Train", nothing remained of Mayes's contribution, so "Ghost Train" is credited to Costello alone.{{sfn|Costello|2015|p=125}}}}