Tulip Frenzy

Elvis says he wasn’t planning on making Momofuku, and maybe it was, in his parlance, a brilliant mistake.  Whatever it was, it was a delightful return to form.  Sounding like outtakes from Get Happy and Blood and Chocolate, this was the best thing he’s done since the Reagan Administration.  We recently read an interview he gave when he burst upon the scene in ’78 — rude, self-confident, full of bluster.  And then we read his interview when he launched his Sundance Channel talk show a few weeks ago.  This album meets those two characters exactly in the middle.  Thank Heaven Pete Thomas and Steve Nieve are still around to introduce the young Mr. McManus to the man he turned into.

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