The Sun Studio Sessions - Elvis Presley

I'm a big Elvis fan and enjoy all the hits, so wouldn't really like to stick my neck out and say this is my favourite album but it probably is! The Sun Studio Sessions is a compilation album from 1954-55 which contains the majority of tracks that Elvis recorded at the renowned Sun Studios in Memphis. Elvis shows versatility and raw energy that isn't necessarily as strong on later albums. Favourite tracks of mine include "That's All Right" which was a song for his mother on her birthday and is considered to be one of the first rock n roll tracks, the bizarre Milkcow Blues Boogie, the smoochy "I Love You Because", the very jolly ...  Read the complete review

It is hard to believe that it was over 50 years ago that Elvis Presley changed the face of popular music, by recording the song THAT'S ALL RIGHT in a small recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, but it was. That small studio was called Sun and was run by Sam Phillips. Sam had a vision of a studio which would provide an outlet for the black music of the South at the time, but also had a vision that if he could find a white man with a 'black' voice, he could crossover into the pop charts and make himself a fortune. He was lucky in that he came across Elvis, and history was born. Being over 50 years ago, the songs that Elvis recorded for Sun are now ...  Read the complete review

Which is your favourite Elvis? 50's hip-swiveller? G.I? 60's Black leather? 70s white suit from the Las Vegas days? Early Elvis is the one for me, without a doubt, although I love many of the songs from all the eras. He never really went out of fashion, but he's well and truly back IN now, back in the charts and back on every radio station in the land. The recent hit "A little less conversation" conjures up a picture of the late 60s, the great come-back era for Elvis, but for me the quintessential Elvis is that from the mid-50s, and the Sun sessions album is the perfect introduction. At this time he was truly new, and ...  Read the complete review