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Studio album by Elvis Costello and the Roots
Released 17 September 2013
Recorded 2012–2013
Genre
Funk[1]R&B[1]
Length 55:54
Label Blue Note
Producer
Elvis CostelloQuestloveSteven Mandel
Elvis Costello chronology
National Ransom
(2010) Wise Up Ghost
(2013) Look Now
(2018)

The Roots chronology
Undun
(2011) Wise Up Ghost
(2013) ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
(2014)

Wise Up Ghost is a collaborative studio album by British singer/songwriter Elvis Costello and American hip hop group the Roots. The album was released on 17 September 2013, by Blue Note Records.[2][3][4] The album`s first single `Walk Us Uptown` was released on 23 July 2013.[5]

Growing out of Costello`s appearances on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, where the Roots are the house band, Wise Up Ghost was well received by critics.[6]

Background
In January 2013, it was announced that the Roots and Elvis Costello were working on an album.[7] On 29 May 2013, it was announced that the album would be titled Wise Up Ghost and would be released on 17 September 2013.[8] In a July 2013 interview with entertainment.ie, Roots drummer Questlove spoke about how the album started, saying: `Elvis first came on the Jimmy Fallon show in 2009. I knew he was a fan of the Voodoo album I did with D`Angelo, so we asked if he would be open to the idea of `remixing` his stuff. He was into it, so we did these radical versions of `High Fidelity` and `(I Don`t Want to Go to) Chelsea`, and he loved it. Then we did that a second time the next year, and then last year he was on when the show did a Bruce Springsteen tribute week. At that point, I kinda subliminally put out the idea of a larger collaboration. I was passive-aggressively suggesting it—I was too afraid to actually say, `Let`s make a record together.`[9] Elvis Costello also spoke about the origins of the album, stating: `We were walking off the set of the show together after we did `Brilliant Disguise` and Quest dropped this little code phrase to me. I don`t think I ever want to tell people which band, which singer, and what record he named, but I knew what he meant right away. While I knew we couldn`t make that record, I hoped that we might be able to make this record. It seemed like a good playground, a fabulous ride, to go in and play with a great band that has a broad-minded view of music. It felt like anything was possible.`[9]

Costello and Questlove have both discussed the writing process for the album. Costello stated: `Somebody would lead the way, the same way as any song construction. It was done in dialogue rather than in performance—like the game Exquisite Corpse, where one person`s story follows the other, or when you fold a paper doll and then draw the legs on. We had already played together, we knew what that felt like, but we wanted different perspectives. We were really about a work-in-progress, mixing from day one, and developing as the ideas came through. But we didn`t need to discuss it very much. We never had one conversation about what we were trying to do, we just did it. We played and the picture emerged, and then you try to sharpen the picture.`[9] Meanwhile, Questlove remarked: `Most powerful songs first have to sound powerful as a skeleton. So usually we started with just drums and piano, and if it was strong as a two-man project, then we`d go to next level and bring in the band. We would riff ideas, nonsensical words, then flesh that out once we had format down, and then Elvis would come back with lyrics and vocal parts intact. We started last August and, through December, once or twice a week he`d stop by. Initially we were emailing tracks, but we wanted real-time exchange. We recorded a lot of it in our tiny little dressing room at 30 Rock, not a traditional studio, but Elvis had no hang-ups about that.`[9]

About the recording process, Questlove stated: `We have like 4000 tracks in a database, so we gave a drum track to Elvis, and days later he came back with a full-fledged demo. We tried two more, then three more, and the next thing you know, we had something on our hands. With no label and no deadlines, the process could stay really relaxed.`[9] Costello gave the following comments on the recording process: `We didn`t know what form it might take, whether it was a song or an EP or what. But ideas kept tumbling out, and they seemed connected by an approach to rhythm and lyric writing. I don`t know the name for this music. It`s a cauldron full of powders and potions, frogs and fingers, and that`s what I call rock and roll—because that`s what it was, originally. I`m not much bothered about the labels, though. What I care is whether we like it and can stand by it.`[9]

Cover art
The all-text cover art of the album is modeled on the cover of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems.

Track listing
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Walk Us Uptown`
Elvis CostelloAhmir ThompsonSteven Mandel
3:22
2. `Sugar Won`t Work`
CostelloThompsonMandel
3:31
3. `Refuse to Be Saved`
CostelloThompsonMandel
4:23
4. `Wake Me Up`
CostelloThompsonMandel
5:52
5. `Tripwire`
CostelloThompsonMandel
4:28
6. `Stick Out Your Tongue`
CostelloThompsonMandel
5:28
7. `Come the Meantimes`
CostelloThompsonMandelRonald DunbarDaphne Ann DozierEdythe Vernelle Craighead
3:53
8. `(She Might Be A) Grenade`
CostelloThompsonMandel
4:36
9. `Cinco Minutos Con Vos`
CostelloThompsonMandel
5:01
10. `Viceroy`s Row`
CostelloThompsonMandel
5:01
11. `Wise Up Ghost`
CostelloThompsonMandel
6:27
12. `If I Could Believe` Costello 3:58

Personnel
Musicians
Elvis Costello – Ampeg Baby Bass, composer, baritone guitar, distortion guitar, rhythm guitar, horn arrangements, melodica, organ, piano, producer, vocals, Wah Wah guitar, Wurlitzer piano
Questlove – drums, producer, composer
Ray Angry – bells, clavinet, Farfisa organ, keyboards, organ, piano
James Poyser – keyboards, piano
Kirk Douglas – guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
Mark Kelley – bass
Matt Cappy – flugelhorn, horn arrangements, trumpet
Frank `Knuckles` Walker – bells, chimes, percussion, tambourine
Korey Riker – horn arrangements, baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, saxophone
Marisol `La Marisoul` Hernandez – featured artist, translation, vocals
Robert Berg – viola
Sally Berman – violin
Diane Birch – backing vocals
Damon Bryson – sousaphone
Alex Budman – bass clarinet
Mark Cargill – violin
Bob Carr – bassoon, contrabassoon
Drew Dembowski – bass
Chris Farr – flute, horn arrangements, saxophone
Mike Ferrill – violin
Roland Kato – viola
Anna Kostyuchek – violin
The Brent Fischer Orchestra – featured artist on tracks 2, 3, 8, 9 and 12
Sam Fischer – violin
Steve Hughes – euphonium
Alex Gorlovsky – violin
Miguel Martinez – cello
Pino Palladino – bass
Kazi Pitelka – viola
Kevan Torfeh – cello
Cecilia Tsan – cello
Ken Wild – bass
Elizabeth Wilson – violin
Bill Reichenbach – contrabass trombone, euphonium, tuba
Production
Ahmir Thompson – composer, producer
Steven Mandel – engineer, horn arrangements, mixing, producer, composer
Mike Cashin – assistant engineer
Brendan Steele – assistant engineer
Brent Fischer – conductor, orchestration
Danny Clinch – photography
Assa Drori – concert master, contractor
Eric Eylands – production assistant
Nicole Frantz – creative director
Keith Horn – production assistant
Guadalupe Jolicoeur – translation
Sebastián Krys – vocal engineer
Dave Kutch – mastering
Colin Nairne – session coordinator
Frank Rodriguez – production assistant
Felix Romero – production assistant
Claris Sayadian-Dodge – production assistant
Coco Shinomiya – art direction
Richard Stolz – vocal engineer
Ben Greenman – liner notes