Costello lists Merle Haggard as an early influence in the world of country music. Costello has covered Haggard several times.
The Pogues
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Celtic pride
When director Martin Scorsese looked for the perfect song to blast over the beginning of the Boston-set “The Departed,” he found it in Massachusetts-based Dropkick Murphys’ “I’m Shipping Up to Boston.” The group found that out the same time moviegoers did. “They never told us how they were going to use the song. We were […]