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Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett: State University of New York, Stony Brook, N.Y.

Jeff Tamarkin, Billboard, 5 May 1984

IT WAS THE old, familiar scene of singer/songwriter bearing acoustic guitar and playing for an attentive college crowd. What wasn't so familiar was that the singer/songwriter was Elvis Costello.

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