Elvis Country - The Prequel
Jewel Case
| 01 | It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin (take 2) | 02:52 | ||||||
| 02 | Kentucky Rain (take 1) | 03:09 | ||||||
| 03 | I Can't Stop Loving You (rehearsal July 15, 1970) | 03:13 | ||||||
| 04 | From A Jack To A King (take 3) | 02:36 | ||||||
| 05 | Clean Up Your Own Backyard (undubbed master) | 03:16 | ||||||
| 06 | Let's Forget About The Stars (original master with piano overdub) | 02:39 | ||||||
| 07 | When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again (NBC TV Special, June 27, 1968 8 PM) | 01:22 | ||||||
| 08 | Stay Away (take 2) | 02:47 | ||||||
| 09 | Too Much Monkey Business (take 9) | 02:40 | ||||||
| 10 | Just Call Me Lonesome (take 4) | 02:10 | ||||||
| 11 | Guitar Man (take 9) | 02:31 | ||||||
| 12 | You Don't Know Me (spliced take) | 02:27 | ||||||
| 13 | She's A Machine (take 7) | 02:02 | ||||||
| 14 | Tomorrow Night (overdubbed version) | 02:51 | ||||||
| 15 | It’s A Sin (take 1) | 02:44 | ||||||
| 16 | Lonely Man (take 12) | 02:57 | ||||||
| 17 | (Now And The There's) A Fool Such As I (take 5) | 02:35 | ||||||
| 18 | Your Cheatin' Heart (take 9) | 02:47 | ||||||
| 19 | Little Cabin Home On The Hill (Million Dollar Quartet December 4, 1956) | 00:42 | ||||||
| 20 | Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong (Million Dollar Quartet December 4, 1956) | 00:33 | ||||||
| 21 | Blue Moon Of Kentucky (long false start + first verse of Milkcow Blues Boogie) | 00:59 | ||||||
| 22 | Blue Moon Of Kentucky (master) | 02:10 | ||||||
| 23 | It Wouldn’t Be The Same (Without You) (January 4, 1954 Sun Records) | 02:04 | ||||||
| 24 | I'm Movin' On (1980 re-recording) | 02:46 | ||||||
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Track 24: Segments of the song can be
heard at the conclusion of each song.
Liner notes:
On November 21, 1955, RCA Victor executive W.W. Bullock sent an urgent bulletin to his fieldmen and record managers: "Have just signed Elvis Presley...This is the hottest new name in country music and he is now on RCA Victor".
Publicity agents back in 1955 were still nervous about the term rock and roll - the genre, after all, hardly existed - and they routinely called Elvis a country singer.
Nor was this description so inaccurate - as many of Presley's earlier recordings on the SUN label were drawn from country music as from blues.
Throughout the spectacular career that was to follow, Elvis never totally turned his back on his country roots, even in his later recordings, in fact, that last song Elvis ever recorded in a studio was a country song ("'He'll Have To Go" ).
In 1970, during the famous Nashville Marathon Sessions in Nashville, Tennessee, Elvis recorded a full country album.
Backing him were some stellar Nashville studio men, including James Burton and Chip Young on guitar and Charlie McCoy on harmonica. The album was a great success and got even greater reviews.
In 2009 there was an "import" follow-up , simply titled "The Sequel" . lt contained country songs that Elvis recorded after 1970, right up to his very last recordings in 1976.
And now, with this 3rd volume, "The Prequel" , its time to go back to the roots with country recordings from 1969 to 1954, the magical year when it all started for this shy and humble country boy.
As with the original release and the 2nd volume, this "final edition" stays close to the novel idea of linking songs with snippets of the same country track ( "I'm Movin' On").
Also many alternate takes and hard to find recordings have been included. Enjoy, again, the pure country side of Elvis Presley.