Some years ago, the brains at Rolling Stone grappled to identify the first ever rock & roll record. In the final face-off, they picked Elvis Presley's debut single That's All Right, a cover of R&B singer Arthur Crudup's song, over Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock (itself a cover, though the song was actually written for the former western swing singer). It is, of course, a fruitless mission to identify a "first" rock & roll song, because the genre is a jumble of diverse influences that convened, not always simultaneously, in an untidy evolution. One might [...]
A deluxe reissue of the King's much praised post-Army comeback album.
Filed under: News All Action/Empics He may be more associated with being hungry than being from Hungary, but that hasn't stopped peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich-loving rock and roll legend Elvis Presley getting made an official citizen of Budapest. Despite famously hailing from Tupelo, Mississippi (via Memphis, Tennessee), the late musical megastar has had posthumous residency rights conferred upon him by the Hungarian capital. The move is in recognition of the singer's connection [...]
by Will Rigby Leon Payne's song "Psycho" is legendary, and rightly so. Payne was a blind country singer and songwriter who has the distinction of having two of his songs recorded by Hank Williams: "Lost Highway" (listen to Leon's version here ) and "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me." Other well-known songs he wrote are "I Love You Because," which Elvis Presley recorded at his first session for Sun Records in 1954, and "Things Have Gone To Pieces," originally a hit for George Jones. On a day off in [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, I just got back from a little vacation to Memphis, a town steeped in musical history, and was able to take in some truly historic sites: the Stax Museum of Soul Music , the Rock and Soul Museum , the Sun Records studio , the Gibson guitar factory , and last, but not least, Graceland [...]
My wife has written a post on her infatuation with Elvis as a little girl. It's called "I was ten, and there was no Bieber", and you should probably read it.
Swedesplease has been on a bit of a folk/americana/bluegrass run of late. In fact Swedesplease is starting to sound a bit like my other blog ( Songs:Illinois ). Here's the latest example by a band called Sandy Hill String Band . The band is from Umeá and features the gorgeous vocals of Jennie Anderssen (vocals that seem to come right out of Nashville). You can stream more of the songs from the new EP here . Elvis Presley Blues
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Arguably one of music's greatest eras, the 502s and 602s changed the face of music forever. Without people ranging from Elvis Presley to Little Richard , Bob Dylan to The Beatles , we probably wouldn't be listening to some of the bands and music we take for granted today. One man who grew up obsessed by the pop culture of this era was Hanni El Khatib. The son of Palestinian and Filipino immigrants (and the first American in his family), Hanni El Khatib grew up in San Francisco and was influenced by these kinds [...]
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The story of Blue Moon — its transition from a movie song that was rewritten several times to jazz song and then pop hit — was told in The Originals Vol. 40 , which included the first version, The Bad In Every Man, sung on film by Shirley Ross. This collection of 38 versions covers all manner of approaches. There are the early jazz interpretations, most of them with vocals (though Gene Krupa, Django Reinhardt and in 1944 the Cozy Cole Allstars do it instrumentally). Then it became something of a torchsong number in the hands of [...]
The ever-reliable All Music Guide calls Jim & Jesse "one of the greatest bluegrass bands in history" and the McReynolds brothers enjoyed a remarkably long and successful career from 1947, when they performed daily on a Virginia radio show, until Jim's death in 2002. As well as traditional music the virtuoso pair were never shy of turning their talents to contemporary sounds. One of their finest excursions beyond mountain music was the 1965 album Berry Pickin' in the Country, a cracking collection of Chuck Berry covers. What I love about it [...]
If I told you the cast of Glee has topped Elvis Presley for the most Billboard Top 100 hits of all-time would you care? No, no you wouldn't. But they have. So yay! As it stands Glee 113 - The King 108.
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If I were to play Dirty Beaches' debut full-length, Badlands, loudly in my apartment, my neighbors would likely suspect one of two things. Either I pulled out an old-fashioned phonograph and started playing tattered vinyls of early-era rockabilly, or I was blasting a documentary focused around novels like On the Road and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [...]
Elvis may have been in the Army, but the hits kept on coming.
Rolling Stone released their list of the 10 greatest dead rock stars . So we want to know who you think is the greatest dead rock star.
In honor of David Lynch's release on vinyl of his single "Good Day Today" (and our love of all things Lynch), Noise Narcs is posting on the music of, for, and about David Lynch this week. See our intro post (and claim of Lynch as a Philadelphian) here , and see the rest of the DLW posts here . When thinking about the music in David Lynch's works, the first element that comes to mind is, of course, [...]
When Willie Mae Thornton left home to tour the Southern States of the USA as a singer in the Hot Harlem Revue in 1941 she was just 14. Just like Big Joe Turner, who'd started his career only a couple of years before ( ABON 0138 ), she could shout the Blues louder than most of her rivals, who were twice her age. And also like Big Joe Turner, even as a teenager, she had the physique to gain access to the bars, clubs and theatres of the South years before she should legally have been allowed to. By the beginning of [...]
Wow. Has it really been 55 years ago today that Elvis Presley kicked up his greasy southern heels and a battered acoustic guitar and did his thang on national TV? Yup. Elvis first appeared on US TV on January 28, 1956 , on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show in New York. He played "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and "Flip, Flop and Fly" in his first appearance - watch it below. I love the way Bill Black kicks his bass on this one, and D.J. Fontana kicks it out nicely on the drums. Shame Scotty [...]
Notre rédacteur responsable de la rubrique arts a accepté de se prêter au jeu de la playlist et nous livre cette semaine les morceaux qui l'inspirent le plus en ce moment. Le contenu de cette playlist est à la fois surprenant et brillant même si sommme toute assez mélancolique. Il semblerait que "le temps de l'amour" soit bel et bien révolu pour certains : "C'est l'histoire de deux coeurs en pâte à sel qui se rencontrent, sont amoureux, sourient tous les deux puis à la fin, se quittent et se séparent. Les musiques sont des passages de cette [...]
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