Heard him on XM the other day. I just remember he’s from Austin TX. He has a group with his name in it. I bet someone from Austin knows his name.
Do you remember what station it was on? Some stations show a list of artists/songs they’ve played and you might be able to look back and figure it out from there. Also, I think some DJs are good at replying to emails if you ask them (probably moreso if you ask them on social media).
Most likely not the guy you’re looking for, but Donnie Vie from Enuff Z’Nuff sounds a lot like Elvis Costello.
Fastball satisfies most of the criteria. I thought of them just from the thread title, before reading the OP, and did not know they were from Austin until I just looked at Wikipedia.
Their big hit was The Way.
not Donnie Vie or fastball .
“Spoon” doesn’t have anyone’s name in it (obviously), but they’re from Austin and have a bit of an Elvis vibe.
I love my XM radio but the one thing you can guarantee is that any song that is in their rotation this month will be repeated every couple of hours on several related stations.
You can also stream live or rewind/rebroadcast programming blocks so there’s a good chance you’ll here it again… fairly soon.
don’t remember which channel it was on , I listen to a lot.
I was totally stunned when I saw on the radio it was not EC. This guy was dead on the same.
Graham Parker sounds exactly like Elvis Costello, but he isn’t American.
Found a list of Austin musicians but he’s not on it. Still looking for his name.
Good luck. Back in the 1990s I heard a radio article on NPR about a Scottish rock band. It sounded very interesting and I made a note to find out more.
Of course, in the early 1990s, you couldn’t just pull out your phone and look up the transcript and then look up the band and stream the songs. All I could remember was that they were Scottish and the band’s name might have started with “T.”
A few years later I managed to find a telephone number for NPR and managed to get a receptionist or intern or something but with that meager information she wasn’t able to help me.
In the early 2000s I heard Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant mention a Scottish band called “Texas” and I figured that might be it. I bought a bunch of Texas’s c.d.s second hand on Amazon. No, that didn’t sound like what I was looking for.
Then last year I was randomly surfing on YouTube and came across a late night talk show interview with Kelly MacDonald and she mentioned her husband was a Scottish musician in a band called Travis.
Ah hah! Some 30 years later I finally figured out that Scottish band I was meaning to look up.
May you have an easier time.
In the early years of his career John Wesley Harding (late 80s? Early 90s?) was noted for his similarities (voice and songwriting) to Elvis Costello
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He’s British, though.
A description of what’s behind that link would be nice.
It helped that he had Bruce Thomas and Pete Thomas in his backing band.
Yes, and sounds it, though IIUC he’s been living in the US for some time now.
I’ve always thought Joe Jackson sounded kinda like a knockoff Elvis Costello, but that’s probably just me.
Huey Lewis has been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
really? I have always found Huey Lewis to be cloyingly earnest.