In two days we leave for Vegas so I wanted to try to recommend a CD that ties in somehow to Las Vegas. I was looking through my record collection trying to figure out what to recommend that fits the Vegas theme and was having a tough time. I pulled out albums like Hank Thompson’s “Live at the Golden Nugget” and The Rat Pack “Live at the Sands” but I only want to recommend music that I think everyone will like and would round off any music collection nicely. Then I came across my one and only Elvis album. Now this is not the “I left my last gift to mankind floating in my toilet” fat Vegas Elvis but the young up and coming punch your mama in the face hip shaking Elvis.
My Recommedation this week is Elvis “56”. This is a collection or 22 songs that Presely recorded in 1956. I do not agree that Elvis is the king of rock but this album is his best argument, it’s raw and dirty rock and roll blues. You’ll recognize most the songs on the album but there are some amazing lesser known surprises. Elvis doesn’t get any better than this. I picture him drinking a fifth of whiskey, walking into the studio, rockin’ the shit out of it, kicking the some studio hand in the teeth and then being carried home to bed. Minus the couple ballads on the album this was punk before punk was punk.
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