Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton perform The Early Songs of Elvis Costello on their Summer 2025 Tour, Radio Soul! Coming to the Duke Energy Center for the Arts – Mahaffey Theater on Wednesday, July 9 at 8pm.

Elvis Costello is the composer or lyricist of over six hundred published titles, including fifteen songs co-written with Paul McCartney and renowned collaborations with Allen Toussaint, the Brodsky Quartet and T Bone Burnett.

Costello’s songwriting alliance with Burt Bacharach, began in 1995 with the song, “God Give Me Strength,” which led to the 1998 album, “Painted From Memory,” before their work was collected in 2023, on the four-album set, “The Songs Of Bacharach & Costello.”