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Music CDs
Our hand-picked collection of albums from the artists listed here at Honky Tonk
Texas, USA, including our comments and reviews.
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Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performanaces
Elvis Presley
Price $ 26.97
In his book CARELESS LOVE, Peter Guralnick rates this album as a must-have for any fans of Elvis and
of American music. He's dead-on correct. This album is unbelievable, and shows a completely
overlooked side of Elvis.
These days, Elvis Presley is almost criminally overlooked as an artist -- drowned in a sea of fat jump-suit
bad-movie jokes. But what other artist can sing rock n'roll, country, R&B, schlock like "My Way" and
gospel music so effortlessly and convincingly? Answer: No one.
"Amazing Grace" suffers from double-album disease, i.e. weaker songs interspersed with heart-stopping
tunes. But repeated listens to songs like I,John, Bosom of Abraham, Lead Me, Guide Me, and the soaring
How Great Thou Art are without question worth the cost of this 2-CD set. Gospel was the music that
moved Elvis most, and you can just feel it in his voice -- the conviction, the faith, the anguish. No music
lover should be without this album.
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Artist Of The Century [Box Set]
Elvis Presley
Price $ 47.47
Artist of the 20th century? Quite an assertion, and yet as a pop-culture
phenomenon, who else? Among the dozens of quotes included in this
career-spanning boxed retrospective is one from rock scribe Greil Marcus: "If
any individual of our time can be said to have changed the world, Elvis Presley
is the one." Indeed, and these are 75 of his towering recordings, ranging from
1954's "That's All Right" through 1976's "For the Heart." The three discs are
packaged in a handsome book that includes the aforementioned tributes from his many disciples (sayeth
James Brown: "He taught white America how to get down"), studio credits, and pithy anecdotes. On the
downside, the vertical foldout is cumbersome and fragile. The music? Of course it makes the case for the
grandiose title claim more than adequately. --Steven Stolder
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Elvis Favorites
Elvis Presley
Price $ 6.97
Merle Haggard & Conway Twitty show that they can stand up close to "The King".
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Elvis' Great Jukebox Hits
Elvis Presley
Price $ 14.99
By now, the King of rock & roll's iconic vintage hits have been reconfigured so
many times that it's hard to imagine anyone needing yet another Presley
compilation. Still, this 23-song collection, programmed for maximum listenability,
serves as a fine introduction to Elvis the rocker. With "Heartbreak Hotel," "Don't
Be Cruel," "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "All Shook Up," "Suspicious Minds,"
"It's Now or Never," "A Big Hunk o' Love," "Too Much," "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy
Bear," "Good Luck Charm," "Hard Headed Woman," this is one primo party disc. With all these essential
classics on a single disc, how can you go wrong? --Scott Schinder
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Great Country Songs
Elvis Presley
Price $ 14.99
Elvis was perceived as a country music newcomer in 1954, albeit an unorthodox one. And in later years,
regardless of how much pop fluff or insipid movie fare he recorded, country remained a vital touchstone.
This generously programmed collection (including five previously unissued alternate takes) serves as a
powerful reminder. It begins with the Sun recordings of "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" and "Blue Moon
of Kentucky" and samples Elvis's rocking, early RCA versions of beloved country tunes...
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His Hand In Mine
Elvis Presley
Price $ 11.97
Elvis was a walkin', talkin', singin' combination of indigenous American music and styles, but probably the
first music he heard as a child was gospel--in Southern Baptist churches, on Memphis radio (where white
Southern gospel quartets flourished during the '40s and '50s), and from black churches. Presley released
an EP of gospel music in the '50s, around the same time he performed "Peace in the Valley" on one of his
Ed Sullivan appearances.
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The Number One Hits
Elvis Presley
Price $ 14.99
Combining all of Presley's No. 1 hits from the Billboard charts (18 in total from 1956-59), this disc offers a
decent, if skimpy, introduction to the King. Presley neophytes will certainly find it useful to have such
standards as "Heartbreak Hotel," "Love Me Tender" and "Suspicious Minds" on one album. In addition to
these huge Presley hits, such lesser known Number Ones as "Big Hunk o' Love" and "Good Luck Charm"
are pleasing reminders of the...
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Viva Las Vegas
Elvis Presley
Price $ 13.99
Whatever compelled Mr. Presley to rise to the occasion (perhaps his two
contemporaneous duets with Ann-Margret?), the results are outstanding for the period - his voice is
noticeably stronger than on the "Lost Album" sessions from about two months earlier, especially on the
energetic title tune, which deserved a higher placement, and, really, the whole "Viva" set which deserved
an actual long play release, not just a single and E.P. Collectors please note the many first-time stereo
tracks and "You're The Boss" with a different ending from the first issue. (Thanks RCA, uh, when will we
have the MOVIE version of "C'mon Everybody" and the THIRD EP/AM duet? Just kidding). And now to
"Roustabout", another enjoyable listen. I think many fans would agree that the material and the singing is
somewhat less impressive than on the aforementioned entry, but listen to Elvis wail on two '50s-styled
rockers (featuring Mr. Boots Randolph doing HIS thing) - it ain't bad! Both soundtracks and movies will
not serve the '50s purists; but the rest of us can enjoy two very respectable efforts.
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