Elvis Back in Nashville (Remastered) Elvis Presley

• 1 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Takes 11-12) 04:18
• 2 Amazing Grace 03:34
• 3 Early Mornin' Rain 03:02
• 4 (That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me 02:14
• 5 Help Me Make It Through the Night 02:51
• 6 Until It's Time for You to Go 04:03
• 7 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Unedited Version) 09:16
• 8 It's Still Here 04:44
• 9 I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen 02:30
• 10 I Will Be True 02:34
• 11 Padre 02:34
• 12 Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) 02:55
• 13 My Way (Takes 2-3 (Master)) 06:25
• 14 I'm Leavin' 03:54
• 15 It's Only Love 02:50
• 16 We Can Make the Morning 04:02
• 17 Love Me, Love The Life I Lead 03:21
• 18 Until It's Time For You To Go (Remake) 03:48
• 19 He Touched Me 02:39
• 20 I've Got Confidence 02:45
• 21 Seeing Is Believing 03:02
• 22 He Is My Everything 02:40
• 23 Bosom of Abraham 01:36
• 24 An Evening Prayer 01:55
• 25 Lead Me, Guide Me 02:41
• 26 There Is No God But God 02:19
• 27 A Thing Called Love 02:29
• 28 I, John 02:16
• 29 Reach Out to Jesus 03:14
• 30 Put Your Hand In the Hand 03:23
• 31 Miracle of the Rosary 02:09
• 32 O Come, All Ye Faithful 02:51
• 33 The First Noel 02:10
• 34 On a Snowy Christmas Night 02:49
• 35 Winter Wonderland 02:20
• 36 The Wonderful World of Christmas 02:00
• 37 It Won't Seem Like Christmas (Without You) 02:42
• 38 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day 03:49
• 39 If I Get Home On Christmas Day 02:52
• 40 Holly Leaves and Christmas Trees 02:12
• 41 Merry Christmas Baby (Unedited Version) 08:41
• 42 Silver Bells 02:28
• 43 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (Remake) 03:48
• 44 It's Only Love (Takes 8 & 9) 04:52
• 45 Love Me, Love The Life I Lead (Takes 5 & 6) 04:00
• 46 We Can Make the Morning (Master with Backing Vocals - Official Audio) 04:04
• 47 I'm Leavin' (Take 1) 03:42
• 48 Johnny B. Goode (Impromptu Performance) 01:07
• 49 Padre (Takes 1 & 11) 03:32
• 50 Lady Madonna (Impromptu Performance) 01:44
• 51 Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) (Take 6) 03:14
• 52 Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Fragment-Impromptu Performance) 00:15
• 53 I Will Be True (Takes 1-2) 04:22
• 54 It's Still Here (Takes 1 & 3) 04:16
• 55 Help Me Make It Through The Night (Takes 1-3) 03:31
• 56 (That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me (Take 1) 03:50
• 57 Until It's Time For You To Go (Take 5) 04:20
• 58 Early Mornin' Rain (Takes 1 & 11) 04:49
• 59 I Shall Be Released (Impromptu Performance) 00:59
• 60 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Remake) 11:11
• 61 Put Your Hand In the Hand (Rehearsal and Take 1) 04:36
• 62 Amazing Grace (Takes 1-2) 05:28
• 63 Miracle of the Rosary (Take 1) 02:17
• 64 The Lord's Prayer (Impromptu Performance) 02:31
• 65 He Touched Me (Takes 1-2) 05:16
• 66 I've Got Confidence (Take 1) 03:13
• 67 An Evening Prayer (Takes 1-2) 02:57
• 68 Seeing Is Believing (Takes 1, 2, & 4) 04:08
• 69 A Thing Called Love (Take 3) 03:59
• 70 Reach Out To Jesus (Takes 1, 2, & 9) 04:38
• 71 He Is My Everything (Take 1) 03:58
• 72 There Is No God But God (Takes 1-2) 03:16
• 73 Bosom of Abraham (Takes 2-3) 02:50
• 74 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (Take 3) 05:34
• 75 It Won't Seem Like Christmas (Without You) (Takes 1 & 6) 03:40
• 76 If I Get Home On Christmas Day (Take 3) 02:55
• 77 Holly Leaves and Christmas Trees (Take 4) 02:36
• 78 Silver Bells (Take 1) 05:18
• 79 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (Take 4) 04:24
• 80 Winter Wonderland (Take 7) 03:33
• 81 O Come, All Ye Faithful (Take 2) 04:21
• 82 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (Remake) (Takes 1, 4, 5, & 10) 06:00
• Total Runtime 04:52:01

Info for Elvis Back in Nashville (Remastered)

Are they still alive? While musicians will always live on through their recordings, it's a question worth asking these days about an increasing number of supernatural performers who continue to release albums long after they're dead. After Jimi Hendrix, the zombie parade is led by Elvis Presley, who has now released many more albums dead than he ever did while breathing. Most of Elvis' "new" albums have been the work of producer Ernst Mikael Jørgensen who has made plumbing the depths of Presley's catalog his life's work. His latest idea is to release raw session tapes takes of the entire band playing together before any subsequent overdubs or sweetening were added. After 2020's Elvis in Nashville box set covered Presley's 1970 sessions in Music City, this new five-volume collection documents the sessions that were held a year later in the same studio with the same band. Held in March, May, and June 1971, these were Presley's last sessions in Nashville's RCA Studio B, the site of many of his greatest recordings. Produced by Felton Jarvis and engineered by Al Pachucki, the famous resonance of that room can be heard throughout. In a sign that perhaps the bottom of the Elvis barrel is now in sight, there are only four unreleased takes of previously released songs here out of 82 total tracks.

By all accounts, the '71 sessions were not the equal of what had occurred the year prior. Presley's life had by then begun to spin out of control: his marriage was on the rocks, his addiction to pills had grown worse and most disheartening of all, his interest in his once shining musical career one that had long since been passed by current musical trends and stars was diminishing. The priorities for the record label and Colonel Parker for these sessions were a Christmas album and a religious/gospel album, both of which his label RCA knew how to sell. Elvis, however, had other ideas, toying with the idea of a folk/country album á la Kris Kristofferson. The March sessions began in that direction with unremarkable takes of tunes by Ewan MacColl, Gordon Lightfoot and the traditional "Amazing Grace" which was then a current hit for Judy Collins. Returning in May, moving takes of Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night" and Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Until It's Time for You to Go," were tracked both would eventually become highlights of Presley's later years.

Rather than more discipline and productivity, Presley's idea of recording was becoming more chaotic. Sessions now turned on whatever he felt like singing, including gospel favorites, Bob Dylan songs, his early rock and roll hits and even tunes by The Beatles who he famously snubbed. Impromptu between-song jams on tunes like "Johnny B. Goode" and "Lady Madonna" are evidence that at times he was still enjoying himself even if the overall results were less than stellar. His record label would take whatever it could get on tape and fashion albums out of it. Whatever the attributes of Elvis's vocal takes (most are good, not great), one of the indisputable strengths is the rhythm section of Jerry Carrigan on drums, Norbert Putnam on bass, and David Briggs on piano, all of them veterans of the Muscle Shoals recording scene, along with guitarists Chip Young and James Burton. The May sessions, among the last truly productive recording sessions of Presley's career, include a trio of gospel songs of just him at the piano singing two by his hero, Ivory Joe Hunter, and a rousing if overwrought take of a tune he knew from childhood, "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen" that show the passion he could still bring to bear in his vocals. Still pondering the idea of a folk album, several takes of "Padre," another Elvis favorite, are sappy but moving. That's followed by another pop number and this set's best track, "I'm Leavin'" with Elvis singing wordless "la-la-la" vocal accents with a haunted vibrato. The rest of the May sessions were taken up by material for what became the Grammy winning religious album, He Touched Me, which Presley, with help from the Nashville Edition vocal group, delivers with his usual dramatic vocal fervor. Despite the presence of a decorated Christmas tree in the studio to foster a holiday mood, the Christmas album came harder—after all it was May! "Silver Bells, for example, sounds rushed. While nearly all the Christmas tracks are released takes from the eventual album, Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas, the rock and roll rave up at the end of "Winter Wonderland" is still a welcome touch and an unedited take of Charles Brown's "Merry Christmas Baby" with its funky, fuzzy bass part has an undeniable groove. Undubbed and unpolished, this is more proof of the genius that lingered until the end.

Elvis Presley

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