Elvis Presley

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This new 5CD set (also available as a double vinyl album of highlights) showcases five crucial periods in which The King of Rock and Roll recorded in his adopted city of Memphis: the fiery 1953-1955 sessions at Sun Studio that first proved his worth as a singing sensation; a restorative 1969 session at American Sound Studios that remains to many his career highlight; a trek to Stax Studios in 1973; a celebrated show at the city's Mid-South Coliseum recorded for a 1974 live album; and Presley's final studio-quality recordings from 1976, taped from RCA's mobile recording truck fed into the plush "Jungle Room" of his Memphis mansion Graceland.  Though none of the tracks are previously unreleased, four of the five discs - everything except the Sun sessions, for which no multitrack tape exists - have been restored and revisited by engineer and longtime Elvis catalogue associate Matt Ross-Spang. These new mixes present rawer versions of the original tracks without overdubs and sweetening that ended up on the final albums and singles - a "you are there" approach to the work. Like all of The King's archival titles going back decades, this box was produced by Elvis authority Ernst Mikael Jorgensen; Memphis author Robert Gordon (a two-time Grammy winner for production and notes on last year's Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos) contributes liner notes. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.