"National Ransom" is the latest. It is a double album. It has been released digitally and on CD but there is also a vinyl recording for sale. And Costello thinks this is the way it sounds best. He says digital may be easier to get. But he says listeners cheat themselves if they do not hear the vinyl version.

Here Elvis Costello performs "Jimmie Standing in the Rain" from "National Ransom."

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T-Bone Burnett also produced the album "The Union." It features two singer-songwriters, Elton John and Leon Russell. Burnett says the record was made because Elton John considered Leon Russell a musical hero and had always wanted to work with him. Here they perform "Jimmie Rodgers Dream."

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Last month, T-Bone Burnett got all three men and a few other artists he works with to perform live together. They held concerts in Boston and New York to raise money for arts and music education in public schools.

We leave you with Elton John and Leon Russell performing "Hearts Have Turned to Stone" from their new album "The Union."

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DOUG JOHNSON: I’m Doug Johnson. Our program was written by June Simms, Shelley Gollust and Caty Weaver, who also was our producer.

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