For impure music, you're connected to all songs considered on Bob Boiling today with Elvis Costello.

That's very well okay. The opening track to Elvis Costello's thrilling new album, it's called The Boy Named If.

I've been listening to Elvis Costello's music since his very first album in 1977,

and was so stoked to talk about this new music. I love it. So I picked some songs to play from

the new record. I asked to play some songs that helped shape his life, but after over an hour of

chatting, we barely got to talk about his new album. Elvis was more excited to talk about how his mom

and dad met at a record shop. How she refused to sell one of the very first portable record players

to well. Well, I'm going to save that part. We hear the sounds of Pei Lee, something Elvis Costello

heard as a child. We hear his wife Diana Crawl, Trapper Chat Baker, his love with Motown,

and what a thrill ride this conversation turned out to be. We begin with an early childhood memory

and a life-changing event. Some of my first sort of sensory memories are revolve around a decade

of Kaillion, which is a kind of record player. It's one of the first standalone final record players,

and it's a design of consequence because I think they have them in the Victorian album.

It's a striped record. I don't know what to say. It was the Pei Black Box was the first

portable record player in England and Dan set obviously on these other ones, which are

there are other brands in America. But my mother was working in a record department of

self-adjusted department store in London, and she told a story that one she was demonstrating

a Pei Black Box record player. They only had one. The factory only sent one because they were trying

to sell this new idea because prior to that, record players were sort of big bits of furniture.

Early ones were picked rollers and if you go back to Edison machines from the 1910s, they're

really substantial cabinet. They look like you should put your China in it or even some clothes.

Maybe that would make them sound better. I don't know. They sound pretty swell in our house.

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