As Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe gear up to play Levitt, the two musicians could be Exhibits 1 and 2 for the musical upside of sticking around and claiming “Baby Boomer” as one’s generation.
Lowe’s songs still hold up as bright and clever, and most have gained a little flattering weight over the years. Sure, “The Basher” now plays with less speed and more restraint than before. But he has been “aging gracefully” for a couple decades now, and has pulled off a very successful effort to to “use the fact that I'm getting older as a distinct advantage.” At 73, he’s at his song-smithing peak, and his most recent albums are considered his best by many longtime fans.
And while the Who and other aged rockers deal with the awkwardness of playing old songs that don’t fit old age, Lowe and Costello are largely exempt from such troubles. Lowe now plies his craft with a band of men in suits and lucha libre masks . And in recent and expertly rocking live-in-the-studio clips he filmed for the BBC with his current band, the Imposters, Costello performs dressed in what look like his pajamas.
The double-bill tour Lowe and Costello are on is a bucket-lister for those who were around for the arrival of punk, new wave and all that followed. Better still, this is the only double bill in which both acts can play their version of one of the greatest — and, sadly, still very timely — songs of all time: “ Peace, Love and Understanding.
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