Elvis Presley: 500 Miles From Home (the 1966 demo album)
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During the mid-1960s, Elvis Presley focused on a series of financially successful but artistically stifling Hollywood musicals.
From spring 1964 until spring 1966 he recorded not one single song outside of the endless and depressing movie soundtracks.
This was happening at the exact same time that the world of popular music (a world that Elvis himself had helped to create ten years earlier) was exploding with creativity and excitement.
At the beginning of 1966, however, Elvis began to consider returning to the recording studio and taped a selection of simple home demos, becoming increasingly enthused about making good music again.
Sometimes Elvis sang alone, sometimes with friends, occasionally he took the bass part or played piano. The songs were wide-ranging; there were some he remembered from childhood and others that reflected the new folk-music boom. In many ways, it was just like a regular Elvis album ... just taped at home.
Elvis then booked studio time in Nashville and professionally recorded a handful of excellent songs and also a Grammy-winning Gospel LP, sowing the seeds of his great 1968 comeback. He had fallen in love with singing again.
Very few of those home demos were ever subsequently properly recorded by Presley, and the tapes were stored away at Graceland or were kept by friends as prized mementoes. Following his death, the demos were discovered and released across several different projects.
The long-hidden lo-fi home demos are finally gathered here as an LP that might have been: a fascinating glimpse into Elvis' music-making during that dark period of his career.
This is "Elvis Presley: 500 Miles From Home"
01:00 "500 Miles From Home"
04:00 "After Loving You"
06:27 "Blowin' In The Wind"
08:33 "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"
10:27 "Dark Moon"
12:35 "If I Loved You"
14:16 "What Now, My Love?"
17:04 "Tennessee Waltz"
19:21 "Write To Me From Naples"
21:34 "Mary Lou Brown"
23:54 "My Heart Cries For You"
25:44 "Suppose"
The accompanying video is taken from an underground 16mm black and white film ...
During the mid-1960s, Elvis Presley focused on a series of financially successful but artistically stifling Hollywood musicals.
From spring 1964 until spring 1966 he recorded not one single song outside of the endless and depressing movie soundtracks.
This was happening at the exact same time that the world of popular music (a world that Elvis himself had helped to create ten years earlier) was exploding with creativity and excitement.
At the beginning of 1966, however, Elvis began to consider returning to the recording studio and taped a selection of simple home demos, becoming increasingly enthused about making good music again.
Sometimes Elvis sang alone, sometimes with friends, occasionally he took the bass part or played piano. The songs were wide-ranging; there were some he remembered from childhood and others that reflected the new folk-music boom. In many ways, it was just like a regular Elvis album ... just taped at home.
Elvis then booked studio time in Nashville and professionally recorded a handful of excellent songs and also a Grammy-winning Gospel LP, sowing the seeds of his great 1968 comeback. He had fallen in love with singing again.
Very few of those home demos were ever subsequently properly recorded by Presley, and the tapes were stored away at Graceland or were kept by friends as prized mementoes. Following his death, the demos were discovered and released across several different projects.
The long-hidden lo-fi home demos are finally gathered here as an LP that might have been: a fascinating glimpse into Elvis' music-making during that dark period of his career.
This is "Elvis Presley: 500 Miles From Home"
01:00 "500 Miles From Home"
04:00 "After Loving You"
06:27 "Blowin' In The Wind"
08:33 "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"
10:27 "Dark Moon"
12:35 "If I Loved You"
14:16 "What Now, My Love?"
17:04 "Tennessee Waltz"
19:21 "Write To Me From Naples"
21:34 "Mary Lou Brown"
23:54 "My Heart Cries For You"
25:44 "Suppose"
The accompanying video is taken from an underground 16mm black and white film ...
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