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Elvis Sings The Blues

04/08/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A 12-song compilation of Elvis' most notable blues sides for the label. A good place to start digging Elvis' commitment to the music - always returning to it right up through the '70s like an old friend, whenever he needed a quick fix of the real thing - as he takes on everything from R&B slices like Tommy Tucker's "High Heel Sneakers" to Percy Mayfield's "Stranger in My Own Home Town." Major highlights on this collection are Elvis playing acoustic rhythm guitar and driving the band through a take of the Lowell Fulson title track, blistering versions of two Arthur Crudup songs, an unreleased Sun recording of Lonnie Johnson's "Tomorrow Night," and the R-rated take of Smiley Lewis's "One Night (of Sin)." - Cub Koda, All Music Guide"

A Pretty Good Blues Singer (Named Elvis)

D.C. Hanoy | Athens, Georgia | 05/20/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Peter Guralnick's contention that this blues singer is "unencumbered by myth or self-consciousness" doesn't survive the widely admired title (and lead) track. Especially by the late '60s, he's a white boy who knows he's getting fonky--and who doesn't surround himself with especially fonky musicians. So rhythms falter, and arrangements get out of hand. The great singer and hillbilly cat puts his weird stamp on almost every tune anyway. But despite the uncensored "One Night," and the salacious "Merry Christmas, Baby," only once does he outdo himself--on the unreleased Sun master "Tomorrow Night," which was already pretty ethereal in Lonnie Johnson's original. Grade: A- Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide

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BLUES SUEDE SHOES

Susan E. Dodge | ALEX,VA USA | 01/10/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"THIS CD IS CLASSIC LATE 50'S EARLY 60'S ELVIS.IF YOU LIKE JAZZ AND BLUES THIS CD IS PERFECT.I HAD THIS IN CASSETTE AND JUST HAD TO GET IT IN CD FORM."