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| Details | | Distributor: | Phantom Import Distributi | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
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2 LPs on 1 CD. Missing 4 songs from the 2 LP set, which was recorded 1954-1955 (the LP version is called "The Complete Sun Sessions"). The CD consists of 16 "master takes", 8 outtakes and 4 previously released alternate takes.
Essentially the rock-&-roll answer to the King James bible, THE SUN SESSIONS captures Elvis Presley's original recordings from his sessions at the famed Memphis studio in 1954 and 1955--just before he brought rock & roll to the masses. The legend has become cliché: a humble boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, pays producer Sam Phillips to help him cut a record for his mother and subsequently turns the world on its ear. Buried beneath this legend is a vibrant collection that still astonishes.
Backed by master picker Scotty Moore and double-bassist Bill Black, Presley dynamically fuses hillbilly country and rhythm & blues--most notably on tracks like his recasting of Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky" in rollicking 4/4 time or Arthur Crudup's blues classic "That's All Right", here turned into a rockabilly rave-up--with an exhuberance that suggests it is all a happy accident. Elvis's voice reveals a remarkable versatility alternating between an emotive rasp ("Mystery Train") to a spry croon ("I Forgot to Remember to Forget") and on some tracks--like the reverby "You're a Heartbreaker"--evoking an alien stranded on planet Earth. Raw and magnetic, THE SUN SESSIONS remains Presley's definitive statement as it bottles his giant charisma years before stardom dulled its edge.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #11 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - ...Bridging black and white, country and blues, his sound was playful and revolutionary...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
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