Friday, June 14, 2024

June 14 - Memphis Vinyl

Together with the 'Memphis' 5-CD-set ', a double LP edition of 'Memphis' will be released by RCA / Legacy on August 9, 2024. 

Graceland will release an exclusive ruby red colored edition too, limited to 1,000 copies. Publicity for this version stated: This Graceland Exclusive red vinyl 2-LP highlight collection of songs, taken from the comprehensive Memphis release, features newly mixed versions of select recordings, pure and without overdubs. Taking listeners through the many recordings Elvis had done while in Memphis, this 2 LP set collects songs recorded at SUN Records, American Studio and Stax sessions, his 1974 hometown show and his last recordings in Graceland.

The set is available on CD from >>> Amazon.
The set is available on LP from >>> Amazon.
(Associate links).

Side A - SUN Single Masters: That's All Right - Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Good Rockin' Tonight - Baby, Let's Play House - I Forgot To Remember To Forge - Mystery Train.

Side B - American '69: In The Ghetto - You'll Think Of Me - Don´t Cry Daddy - I´m Movin´ On - Any Day Now - Suspicious Minds.

Side C - Stax '73: Promised Land - If You Talk In Your Sleep - Take Goot Care Of Hear - Raised On Rock - It´s Midnight - Your Love's Been A Long Time Coming.

Side D - Graceland '76: For The Heart - Hurt - Way Down - Danny Boy - Moody Blue - How Great Thou Art (20.03.1974 - Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN).

RCA / Legacy released a preview of the new set on YouTube. Losten to 'Polk Salad Annie' (Live at Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN - March 20, 1974).



(Source: Elvis Club Berlin / JPC / Graceland / Sony)