Lucius performs "Born Again Teen" for a World Cafe Session with a Cloud 44-A Ribbon Microphone. Recorded at XPN Studios in Philadelphia.

On his recent Detour solo tour, Elvis Costello accompanied himself on guitar as he sang his trove of hits. For a segment in which he performed inside a set designed to look like a life-size vintage television screen, he needed a microphone that not only offered excellent reproduction of his unmistakable voice, but that would complement visual look and feel of the era. Costello and his engineer Fern Alvarez, who has run front-of-house sound for the Dixie Chicks, Paul Simon, Ja