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| Rollingstone |
 After a decade of putting Hollywood glitz above his Memphis roots, Elvis Presley staged a musical comeback on TV in 1968 and then returned home for two extraordinary albums: From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis. The first was a classic, and the second wasn't so shabby. Legacy compiles all of his 1969 Memphis recordings here, including hits "In the Ghetto" and "Suspicious Minds" (his last Number One single before his 1977 death). What makes these sessions remarkable: the newfound maturity and soulfulness in Elvis' vocals, and producer Chips Moman's warm, distinctly Southern musical backing....full text |
| Independet |
| Following the success of the 1968 “comeback” TV special, the Great Galoot returned to his hometown and recorded two albums’ worth of material with local musicians – back in the Memphis pocket, as it were. The results were inconsistent in many ways but almost uniformly brilliant in intensity. This is music that gets in your face on drama alone. You’ll know “In the Ghetto” and “Suspicious Minds” already. Get to know the rest on this splendid twodisc repackage job. His best work since the 1950s. In fact, the last great work he ever did....full text |
| Musicbox-online |
| Elvis Presley might not have invented rock ’n‘ roll, but he did come to define it. He seemed to absorb every sound with which he came into contact — from the bluegrass works of Bill Monroe and the western swing of Bob Wills to the gospel recordings of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the early R&B of Arthur Crudup. By channeling all of it into a youthful blast of raging hormones and intense longing, Presley became a massive cultural force in the 1950s, the likes of which hadn’t previously been seen. Arguably, Presley’s recordings at Sun Studios in Memphis remain the pinnacles of his career. In fact, nearly everything that followed can be viewed as an attempt by Presley to recapture the raw power of his emergence as an artist. In his defense, though, his ascent was extraordinarily rapid. Once he was thrust into the limelight, the demands that were placed upon him were undeniably immense. For a while, Presley managed to weather the storm of attention, and his two-year stint in the armed forces likely provided him with a much needed respite. When he returned in 1960, though, Presley hadn’t figured out how to escape from the insanity of his schedule. He plunged back into the same routine of recording music and making movies, but the process became ridiculously formulaic. It’s no wonder his passion was noticeably absent to the point where his soundtrack albums were padded with previously unreleased material. The most perplexing thing of all, however, was the fact that he appeared to have no desire to break out of his artistic decline. By the middle of the decade, his career was in a tailspin, and his reign over the charts had been supplanted by The Beatles. Consequently, when Presley entered the recording studio to begin work on From Elvis in Memphis, everything was on the line. He knew this might be his last chance to salvage his legacy, too. His audience had been primed for his return-to-form by a television special that had aired in December 1968. Featuring his first live performances in seven years, the program not only provided a retrospective examination of Presley’s career, but it also alluded to the places he would go on From Elvis in Memphis. For the first time in quite awhile, Presley wasn’t merely going through the motions in order to earn a big paycheck. If there were any doubts about Presley’s ability to mount his creative re-emergence, they quickly were erased when he returned to Memphis in January 1969. Settling into American Studios, which was in the midst of spawning an astounding string of hit singles, Presley began to run through the material that would compose From Elvis in Memphis. The expanded Legacy Edition of the recording features all of the tracks that were completed for the project, including the songs that fueled its sequel From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis as well as several tunes that turned up on other efforts in the early 1970s. As such, the collection serves as a thorough examination of this portion of Presley’s career....full text |
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