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From Nashville To Memphis: The Essential 60s Masters
Elvis Presley
RCA, 1993
REVIEW BY: David Bowling
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 08/11/2007
Elvis Presley dominated the music scene from 1956-1962 and became a part of American pop culture. All that changed in 1963 as the Beatles and the rest of the British Invasion artists arrived in the United States.
Before the end of the decade Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and many other artists would take rock & roll in directions that Elvis could not have imagined in 1962. While Elvis remained popular, he was no longer the most popular or the best.
The Elvis Presley of the 1960s produced a lot of good and a lot of bad. From Nashville To Memphis: The Essential 60’s Masters reflects both. Mercifully, the soundtrack material to his miserable movies is not included. On the negative side, Elvis’ gospel material is also not included. One constant in the recording career was the quality of his gospel and sacred material. Their absence from this set reduces its overall quality.
First the good. The first two discs are given over to Elvis’s music from 1960-1962. This music is on a par with his best 50s material. Such songs as “Are You Lonesome Tonight,” “His Latest Flame,” Stuck On You,” “Good Luck Charm,” “(You’re The) Devil In Disguise” and “(Such An) Easy Question” has been taken from the original masters, and RCA has done a good job cleaning the material so that it sounds pristine.
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