Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions CD
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Artist: Elvis PresleyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- That's All Right
- Blue Moon of Kentucky
- Good Rockin' Tonight
- I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine
- Milkcow Blues Boogie
- You're a Heartbreaker
- Baby, Let's Play House
- I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone
- Mystery Train
- I Forgot to Remember to Forget
- I Love You Because
- Blue Moon
- Tomorrow Night
- I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')
- Just Because
- Trying to Get to You
- Harbor Lights [Outtake]
- I Love You Because [Take 2][Outtake]
- That's All Right [Outtake]
- Blue Moon of Kentucky [Outtake]
- I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine [Outtake]
- I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (My Baby's Gone) [Take 9][Outtake]
- I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin') [Outtake]
- When It Rains, It Really Pours [Outtake]
- I Love You Because [Take 3][Alternate Take][#]
- I Love You Because [Take 5][Alternate Take][#]
- I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (My Baby's Gone) ... [Take 7]
- I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (My Baby's Gone) ... [Take 12]
Music reviews of The Sun Sessions CD
Music Review: Once Again, Blame It On Sam Phillips
Rating: 5 Stars
Howlin' Wolf, Roscoe Gordon, Rufus Thomas, Little Milton and an assortment of black blues notables in the early days. Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnnie Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis and an assortment of white rockabilly notables in the mid to late 1950's. What do they have in common? Well, one thing, and make that a decisively important one thing, is that they passed through Mr. Sam Phillips' Sun Records recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee on the way to some kind of career. Amazing. With the possible exception of Chess Records in Chicago, a label that moreover concentrated on the blues no other studio can claim so much as the catalyst for what became rock and roll in the mid- 1950's, the youth of the present writer and of his Generation of `68.
That said, the impetus for this review of a compilation of Elvis's Sun Record sessions is a Public Broadcasting Station's American Masters series that highlighted the ten years existence of that recording studio. There the format included a generous round of ` talking heads' interspersed with some performances, in this case, to honor the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Sun Records (1950).
This documentary also included many of the old Sun artists who did not attain the stardom of those mentioned in the first paragraph yet who nevertheless had some interesting things to say about the meaning of the Sun Record experience. Those comments and those performances put into dramatic relief why Elvis was the "King", at least in those days. A common theme throughout, and I believe that this applies to Elvis as well, is that mainly the music got them the hell off the farms, out of the fields or out of those dead end transient jobs. And moreover they had fun and got paid for it. And met girls! How can you beat that? My take on this is that they were good old boys, Elvis included, who got more out of the Sun, if not financially then musically, than they had originally bargained for. And this entire trip down memory lane is presided over by the impresario himself, the late Sam Phillips.
As to the present compilation some comments are worth mentioning. As with all such compilations there is some unevenness in the quality of performance, even in the case of Elvis. Some of this is calculated with the use of alternative takes to beef up the size of the compilation. However, any way you cut it these Sun sessions and that studio played to Elvis's strengths musically. Starting with the classics It's All Right, Mama, Blue Moon of Kentucky and Good Rockin', Tonight and through such ballad covers as Blue Moon and Harbor Lights Elvis demonstrates his versatility in song style and that distinctive intonation that no one else in the Sun stable could duplicate (and they tried, believe me). Elvis fanatics will want this one just like every other thing that has been put out in his name. But the real reason to get it is to hear pure Elvis when the man, the moment and the environment all came together at a time when Rock and Roll was young.
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