While “That’s All Right” was originally performed by Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, the context made it clear Orbison was ...
However, Elvis released a song in 1961 that was very current: “Little Sister.” During the early 1960s, surf music was all the rage. “Little Sister” has a sweet surf-rock riff that propels ...
Elvis was one of music’s great romantics and this brilliant 15-track CD – Elvis Love Songs – includes some ... the same time he recorded That’s All Right, sometimes regarded as the first ...
From Elvis gyrating in prison stripes in Jailhouse ... In making this list, we included soundtrack albums built around original songs (hey, Superfly) as well as expertly curated compilations ...
Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Gladys Knight, Tammy Wynette and Joan Baez. When he came up with the idea for the song, Kristofferson was working as a helicopter pilot (which meant he could chopper ...
“All of them,” he says. “The entire Elvis era, from start to finish...if someone’s gonna go to see our show, they’re obviously a fan and they’re gonna know every song. You have to at ...
Elvis Costello was undergoing a major career transition at the end of the '80s, switching record labels and largely moving ...
In Before Elvis (Hachette, Jan.), music journalist Preston Lauterbach examines Elvis Presley’s debt to the Black artists who ...
The characters in his songs and the ones he played in movies were all very much Kristofferson characters: refracted, grimed-up shards of himself, with plausible deniability and elements of ...
Elvis Costello, Post Malone, Keith Richards, Lucinda Williams, more appeared at John Anderson, James Burton, Toby Keith's ...
pointing out that his shows are highly taxing because he mimics all of Presley's moves. And while he does not talk like Elvis in between songs — he feels that comes across as fake — the deacon ...
Nick Cave discusses his new album, 'Wild God,' as well as the influences Elvis Presley, Kris Kristofferson, and Anita Lane have had on him.