On Friday, RCA and Legacy Recordings announced the release of From Elvis in Nashville, a 4-CD box set due on November 20 which promises to be the definitive chronicle of Presley's marathon Music City recording session fifty years ago.

In June 1970, Elvis arrived at RCA's Studio B in Nashville to begin what would become a legendary five-night recording session. Along with an additional session on September 22, these tracks would form the core of three celebrated albums: That's the Way It Is, Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old), and Love Letters from Elvis. (All three original albums have previously been addressed by Legacy in expanded editions; Love Letters was paired with Elvis Country.  That's the Way It Is is also receiving a deluxe edition this year presenting, for the first time, the complete rehearsal sessions on eight CDs.  Get all of the details on that release here.)

Following the success of his American Sound sessions the year before, Elvis was eager to hit the studio again. Never a fan of overdubbing, he chose instead to perform live in the studio with the top session players in the city, colloquially known as the Nashville Cats. You couldn't pick much better collaborators than multi-instrumentalist Charlie McCoy, bassist Norbert Putnam, and pianist David Briggs. On guitar for the June session was longtime Elvis collaborator James Burton, while Muscle Shoals house band guitarist Eddie Hinton played on the September session. Over the course of the sessions, they recorded over 40 songs hand-picked by Elvis. Together, these songs form something of a bridge between his roots in bluegrass and country, the rockabilly style with which he revolutionized all of music in the '50s, and the contemporary pop sounds he was embracing in his live shows.

Whether it be the June takes of Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away," the stirring interpretation of Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," rollicking jams on blues favorites like "Got My Mojo Workin'," or the September session highlight "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On," these tracks not only cook with gas, they also informed the trajectory of Elvis's career to come, which would continue to see many successes.

Now, these influential sessions will be collected for the first time on a single collection, but with a twist. All have been newly mixed by famed engineer Matt Ross-Spang. These 2020 mixes strip away the orchestrations and overdubs of the released recordings to offer a more immediate and intimate listening experience true to when Elvis and the band laid down the core tracks.

From Elvis In Nashville will be available as a 4-CD box set including two discs of rare or entirely unreleased recordings from the sessions. Meanwhile, vinyl aficionados will be happy to hear that a 2-LP highlights collection will also be released. The Graceland Official Store will have an exclusive orange and aquamarine color variant of the 2-LP set for sale for collectors.

All configurations are set to hit storefronts and online retailers on November 20. You can pre-order your copy and peruse the track listing below! And check out this advance preview of "I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water." Use this link if the embedded YouTube video doesn't display on your browser.

4-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop
2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop
2-LP orange and aquamarine: Graceland Online Shop

4-CD Track Listing

CD 1: 2020 stripped-down mixes

          June 4-5 Session:

1. Opening Jam (Mystery Train)
2. Twenty Days and Twenty Nights
3. I've Lost You
4. I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
5. The Sound of Your Cry
6. The Fool
7. A Hundred Years from Now
8. Little Cabin On the Hill
9. Cindy, Cindy
   
   June 5-6 Session:
10. Bridge Over Troubled Water
11. How the Web Was Woven
12. Got My Mojo Working / Keep Your Hands Off of It
13. It's Your Baby, You Rock It
14. Stranger In the Crowd
15. I'll Never Know
16. Mary In the Morning
    
    June 6-7 Session:
17. It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)
18. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
19. Just Pretend
20. This Is Our Dance
21. Life
22. Heart of Rome

Alternate mixes of the above tracks appeared on the following releases:
CD 1 tracks 1-3, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18, 19, released on Elvis: That's The Way It Is (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 29696-2, 2008
CD 1 tracks 4, 6, 8, 13 released on Elvis Country (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 40723-2, 2008
CD 1 tracks 5, 12, 15 released on Love Letters From Elvis (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 29701-2, 2008
CD 1 track 7 released on Nashville Marathon, Follow That Dream/RCA CD 74321 95406-2, 2002
CD 1 track 9, 17, 20-22 released on Love Letters From Elvis (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/Sony BMG/RCA CD 88697 29701-2, 2008

CD 2: 2020 stripped-down mixes, continued

          June 7-8 Session:

1. When I'm Over You
2. I Really Don't Want to Know
3. Faded Love
4. Tomorrow Never Comes
5. The Next Step Is Love
6. Make the World Go Away
7. Funny How Time Slips Away
8. I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
9. Love Letters
   
   June 8-9 Session:
10. There Goes My Everything
11. If I Were You
12. Only Believe
13. Sylvia
14. Patch It Up
    
    September 22 Session:
15. Snowbird
16. Where Did They Go, Lord
17. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
18. Rags to Riches

Alternate mixes of the above tracks appeared on the following releases:
CD 2 tracks 1-4, 6-8, 10, 15-17 released on Elvis Country (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 40723-2, 2008
CD 2 track 5, 14 released on Elvis: That's The Way It Is (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 29696-2, 2008
CD 2 tracks 9, 11-13, 18 released on Love Letters From Elvis (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 29701-2, 2008

CD 3: outtakes

1. Jam 2 (Tiger Man)
2. I've Lost You (Take 1)
3. The Next Step Is Love (Takes 3-6)
4. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Rehearsal)
5. Patch It Up (Take 1)
6. Twenty Days and Twenty Nights (Takes 5,6 & 8)
7. How the Web Was Woven (Take 1)
8. Mary In the Morning (Takes 3-4)
9. Just Pretend (Takes 1-2)
10. Stranger In the Crowd (Takes 1-5)
11. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Rehearsal, Take 1)
12. Patch It Up (Take 9)
13. The Sound of Your Cry (Take 3)
14. Where Did They Go, Lord (Takes 2-3)
15. Rags to Riches (Take 2)

CD 3 tracks 3b and 3c previously unreleased.

Alternate mixes of the above tracks appeared on the following releases:
CD 3 tracks 1, 7, 8, 11 take 1, 13, 14 take 2, and 15 released on Nashville Marathon, Follow That Dream/RCA CD 74321 95406-2, 2002
CD 3 tracks 2, 3 take 3, 3 take 6, 4-6, 9 take 1, 10, and 11 rehearsal released on Elvis: That's The Way It Is (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 29696-2, 2008
CD 3, tracks 9 take 2 and 12 released on Essential Elvis, Vol. 4: A Hundred Years From Now, RCA CD 07863 66866-2, 1996
CD 3, track 14 take 1 released on Elvis Country (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 40723-2, 2008

CD 3 tracks 1, 2, 6, 13 recorded during the June 4-5 session.
CD 3 tracks 7, 8, 10 and 11 recorded during the June 5-6 session.
CD 3 track 4 and 9 recorded during the June 6-7 session.
CD 3 tracks 3 recorded during the June 7-8 session.
CD 3 tracks 5 and 12 recorded during the June 8-9 session.
CD 3 tracks 14 and 15 recorded during the September 22 session.

CD 4:

1. Jam 3 (I Didn't Make It On Playing Guitar)
2. Faded Love (Rehearsal, Country Version)
3. The Fool (Take 1)
4. A Hundred Years from Now (Take 1)
5. Little Cabin On the Hill (Take 1)
6. Tomorrow Never Comes (Takes 10-11)
7. Snowbird (Take 1)
8. Faded Love (Take 3)
9. It's Your Baby, You Rock It (Take 3)
10. There Goes My Everything (Take 1)
11. Love Letters (Take 1)
12. If I Were You (Take 5)
13. Heart of Rome (Take 1)
14. Cindy, Cindy (Take 1)
15. I'll Never Know (Take 3)
16. Sylvia (Take 9)
17. It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing) (Takes 1-2)
18. Only Believe (Take 3)
19. Life (Take 2)

CD 4 track 6, take 10 previously unreleased.

Alternate mixes of the above tracks appeared on the following releases:
CD 4 tracks 1-3, 5, 8, 12, 14, and 17 take 2 released on Essential Elvis, Vol. 4: A Hundred Years From Now, RCA CD 07863 66866-2, 1996
CD 4 tracks 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 16 released on Nashville Marathon, Follow That Dream/RCA CD 74321 95406-2, 2002
CD 4 track 6 take 11 released on Elvis Country (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 40723-2, 2008
CD 4 track 10 released on released on Elvis: Great Country Songs, RCA CD 07863 66880-2, 1996
CD 4 tracks 15, 17 take 1, and 18 released on Love Letters From Elvis (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 29701-2, 2008
CD 4 track 19 released on Today, Tomorrow, Forever, RCA/BMG Heritage CD 07863 65115-2, 2002

CD 4 tracks 3-5 and 14 recorded during the June 4-5 session.
CD 4 track 9 recorded during the June 5-6 session.
CD 4 tracks 1, 13, 17, and 19 recorded during the June 6-7 session.
CD 4 tracks 2, 6, 8, 11, 15, and 18 recorded during the June 7-8 session.
CD 4 tracks 10 and 12 recorded during the June 8-9 session.
CD 4 track 7 recorded during the September 22 session.

2-LP Track Listing:

LP 1:

1. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
2. Mary In The Morning - Takes 3-4
3. Stranger In The Crowd - Take 5
4. How The Web Was Woven - Take 1
5. Got My Mojo Working/Keep Your Hands Off Of It
6. I've Lost You - Take 1
7. Patch It Up - Take 1
8. Just Pretend - Take 2
9. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
10. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Rehearsal, Take 1

LP 2:

1. Tomorrow Never Comes - Takes 10-11
2. Faded Love - Take 3
3. I Really Don't Want To Know
4. I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
5. Make The World Go Away
6. Funny How Time Slips Away
7. Faded Love - rehearsal, country version
8. The Fool
9. A Hundred Years From Now - Take 1
10. Little Cabin On The Hill - Take 1
11. There Goes My Everything - Take 1
12. I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water

Alternate mixes of the above tracks appeared on the following releases:
LP 1, tracks 1-8, 10 released on Elvis: That's The Way It Is (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 29696-2, 2008
LP 1 track 9; LP 2 tracks 1-12 released on Elvis Country (FTD Special Edition), Follow That Dream/RCA CD 88697 40723-2, 2008

LP 1 track 6; LP 2 tracks 4, 8-10 recorded during the June 4-5 session.
LP 1 tracks 2-5, 10 recorded during the June 5-6 session.
LP 1 tracks 1, 8 recorded during the June 6-7 session.
LP 2 tracks 1-3, 5-7, and 12 recorded during the June 7-8 session.
LP 1, tracks 7; LP 2 track 11 recorded during the June 8-9 session.
LP 1, track 9 recorded during the September 22 session.