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((Infobox album
| name       = The Delivery Man
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Elvis Costello|Elvis Costello and The Imposters]]
| cover      = The Delivery Man cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 21 September 2004
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| genre      =
* [[Alternative rock]]
* [[alternative country]]
* [[roots rock]]
| length     = 53:20
| label      = [[Lost Highway Records|Lost Highway]]
| producer   =
* [[Elvis Costello]]
* [[Dennis Herring]]
| prev_title = [[Cruel Smile]]
| prev_year  = 2002
| next_title = [[Momofuku (album)|Momofuku]]
| next_year  = 2008
| misc       = ((Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[Elvis Costello]]
 | type       = studio
 | prev_title = [[Il Sogno]]
 | prev_year  = 2004
 | title      = The Delivery Man
 | year       = 2004
 | next_title = [[My Flame Burns Blue]]
 | next_year  = 2006
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))
((Album ratings
| MC = 71/100<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/the-delivery-man/elvis-costello |title=Reviews for ''The Delivery Man'' by Elvis Costello |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=7 July 2016))</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = ((rating|4|5))<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-delivery-man-mw0000392666 |title=''The Delivery Man'' – Elvis Costello / Elvis Costello & the Imposters |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=7 July 2016 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine))</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score = ((Rating|4|5))<ref>((cite journal |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2750 |title=Elvis Costello: ''The Delivery Man'' |journal=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] |issue=30 |date=October 2004 |access-date=7 July 2016 |last=Pareles |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Pareles |page=118 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050204162915/http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2750 |archive-date=4 February 2005 |url-status=dead))</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3score = B+<ref>((cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2004/09/21/delivery-man |title=''The Delivery Man'' |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=21 September 2002 |access-date=7 July 2016 |last=Browne |first=David |author-link=David Browne (journalist) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107075106/http://www.ew.com/article/2004/09/21/delivery-man |archive-date=7 November 2016 |url-status=dead))</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev4score = ((Rating|4|5))<ref>((cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/sep/17/popandrock.shopping1 |title=Elvis Costello and the Imposters, ''The Delivery Man'' |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=17 September 2004 |access-date=7 July 2016 |last=Petridis |first=Alexis |author-link=Alexis Petridis))</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev5score = ((Rating|3|4))<ref>((cite news |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/sep/19/entertainment/ca-rack19 |title=A roving jack of all genres |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=19 September 2004 |access-date=7 July 2016 |last=Swed |first=Mark))</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
| rev6score = ((Rating|5|5))<ref>((cite journal |title=Elvis Costello & The Imposters: ''The Delivery Man'' |journal=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |issue=131 |date=October 2004 |last=Sutcliffe |first=Phil |page=97))</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev7score = 6.8/10<ref>((cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11704-the-delivery-man-with-the-impostersil-sogno/ |title=Elvis Costello / The Imposters: ''The Delivery Man'' / ''Il Sogno'' |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=26 September 2004 |access-date=7 July 2016 |last=Deusner |first=Stephen M.))</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev8score = ((Rating|3|5))<ref>((cite journal |title=Elvis Costello & The Imposters: ''The Delivery Man'' |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=220 |date=November 2004 |page=118))</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev9score = ((Rating|4|5))<ref>((cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-delivery-man-20041028 |title=''The Delivery Man'' |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=28 October 2004 |access-date=7 July 2016 |last=DeCurtis |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony DeCurtis))</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev10score = ((Rating|3|5))<ref>((cite journal |title=Crude awakening |journal=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |issue=90 |date=November 2004 |last=Dalton |first=Stephen |page=104))</ref>
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'''''The Delivery Man''''' is the 21st studio album by [[Elvis Costello]], released on 21 September 2004 through [[Lost Highway Records]]. It was recorded with the Imposters at Sweet Tea Studio in [[Oxford, Mississippi]]. It peaked at No. 40 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].

==Content==
The album had its genesis in a conceptual story apparently written for [[Johnny Cash]]. Costello himself states:
:"''The Delivery Man'' started out as a story about the impact on three woman's lives of a man with a hidden past. The story took the song "Hidden Shame" as its unsung prelude. Parts of the narrative ended up being displaced from the final album by more urgent songs taken from the news headlines. One of the songs moved aside was to find an ideal home on ''[[Secret, Profane & Sugarcane]]''."<ref>[http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/artists/Elvis-Costello/ Costello] at [[Concord Music Group]] website, retrieved 29 August 2010.</ref>

The album features guest vocals by [[Lucinda Williams]] and [[Emmylou Harris]]. "Monkey to Man" derived from a 1950s [[rhythm and blues]] hit "The Monkey" by [[Dave Bartholomew]], and "The Judgment", a song written by Costello and [[Cait O'Riordan]] (his wife 1986-2002) which had been previously recorded by [[Solomon Burke]] on his 2002 release ''[[Don't Give Up on Me (album)|Don't Give Up on Me]]''. The vinyl and United Kingdom compact disc pressings of the album included an additional track, "She's Pulling Out the Pin". The album was issued the same day as ''[[Il Sogno]]''.

Shortly after its release, Lost Highway issued a deluxe edition of the album, including a [[bonus disc]] containing seven tracks from the ''Clarksdale Sessions'' ten-inch vinyl record, a collection of songs recorded live at Delta Recording in [[Clarksdale, Mississippi]]. ''The Clarksdale Sessions'', subtitled "Delivery Man Companion", contained new versions of tracks from the proper album as well as an unreleased Costello original "In Another Room", and covers of the Bartholomew original "The Monkey" and "[[Dark End of the Street]]". [[Tom Waits]] has named it one of his favourite albums.<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/mar/20/popandrock1 |title=Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time &#124; Music &#124; The Observer |newspaper=The Observer |date=20 March 2005 |publisher=Guardian |access-date=2014-05-09 |last1=Waits |first1=Tom ))</ref>

==Track listing==
All tracks written by Elvis Costello unless otherwise indicated.

# "Button My Lip" – 4:54
# "Country Darkness" – 3:57
# "There's a Story in Your Voice" – 3:43
# "Either Side of the Same Town" (Costello, [[Jerry Ragovoy]]) – 3:59
# "Bedlam" – 4:48
# "The Delivery Man" – 4:38
# "Monkey to Man" – 4:28
# "Nothing Clings Like Ivy" – 4:17
# "The Name of This Thing Is Not Love" – 2:50
# "Heart Shaped Bruise" – 4:07
# "She's Pulling Out the Pin" <small>(vinyl pressings, UK CD, and deluxe edition CD only)</small> – 3:22
# "Needle Time" – 5:05
# "The Judgment" (Costello, [[Cait O'Riordan]]) – 3:58
# "[[The Scarlet Tide]]" (Costello, [[T-Bone Burnett]]) – 2:25

===''Delta-Verité – The Clarksdale Sessions'' (Deluxe edition bonus disc)===
# "The Monkey" ([[Dave Bartholomew]], Pearl King) – 2:34
# "Country Darkness" – 4:21
# "Needle Time" – 5:13
# "The Scarlet Tide" (Costello, Burnett) – 2:22
# "In Another Room" – 4:25
# "The Delivery Man" – 4:57
# "[[The Dark End of the Street]]" ([[Dan Penn]], [[Chips Moman]]) – 3:06

==Personnel==
* [[Elvis Costello]] – vocals, guitars, piano, [[glockenspiel]], [[tambourine]], bass, [[ukulele]]
* [[Steve Nieve]] – [[organ (music)|organ]], piano, [[accordion]], [[Pump organ|harmonium]], [[Hammond organ]], [[theremin]], [[melodica]], [[omnichord]]
* [[Davey Faragher]] – bass, vocals
* [[Pete Thomas (drummer)|Pete Thomas]] – drums
* [[Emmylou Harris]] – vocals (on "Nothing Clings Like Ivy", "Heart Shaped Bruise", and "The Scarlet Tide")
* [[John McFee]] – [[pedal steel guitar]] (on "Country Darkness" and "Heart Shaped Bruise")
* [[Lucinda Williams]] – vocal (on "There's a Story in Your Voice")

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (2004)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
((album chart|Flanders|31|artist=Elvis Costello & The Imposters|album=The Delivery Man|rowheader=true|accessdate=8 September 2020))
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((album chart|Netherlands|65|artist=Elvis Costello & The Imposters|album=The Delivery Man|rowheader=true|accessdate=8 September 2020))
|-
((album chart|Germany4|100|id=16372|artist=Elvis Costello & The Imposters|album=The Delivery Man|rowheader=true|accessdate=8 September 2020))
|-
((album chart|Italy|46|artist=Elvis Costello & The Imposters|album=The Delivery Man|rowheader=true|accessdate=8 September 2020))
|-
((album chart|Norway|34|artist=Elvis Costello & The Imposters|album=The Delivery Man|rowheader=true|accessdate=8 September 2020))
|-
((album chart|Sweden|58|artist=Elvis Costello & The Imposters|album=The Delivery Man|rowheader=true|accessdate=8 September 2020))
|-
((album chart|UK2|73|date=20040926|artist=Elvis Costello|rowheader=true|accessdate=8 September 2020))
|-
((album chart|Billboard200|40|artist=Elvis Costello|rowheader=true|accessdate=8 September 2020))
|}

==References==
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