The release of this album, seen in its proper historical context, is an indicator of
just how bright Elvis Presley's star shone in the late '50s. His first hits collection was issued in March 1958, on the eve of his ...
A Boy from Tupelo rounds up all the known existing Elvis Presley recordings from 1953
through 1955, a sum total of 53 studio takes and 32 live performances. The subtitle of the triple-disc set is The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings but ...
Released alongside the triple-CD box set A Boy from Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings, this
two-LP set collects nothing but the master takes from that period -- all the A- and B-sides released on Sun in 1954 and 1955. Although ...
Bob Weir never stopped making music but he did back away from his solo career
after Heaven Help the Fool, a misbegotten 1978 effort that found the Grateful Dead guitarist attempting to dabble in the sun-splashed surfaces of SoCal soft ...
When Phil Spector formed his own label, Philles Records, in 1961, he had written, played
guitar, and sung backup vocals on 1958's To Know Him Is to Love Him (which hit the top of the pop charts that year) as ...
Legacy's 2011 reissue of Elvis Presley is a double-disc set that pairs his classic debut
with its sequel, Elvis, adding a bunch of non-LP singles and EP tracks, including several massive hits. Compared to the simultaneously released five-disc box Young ...
Bruce Springsteen has always been steeped in mainstream popock music, using it as a vocabulary
for what he wanted to say about weightier matters. He has always written generic pop as well, but Human Touch was the first album to ...
Rising from the mud of Max Yasgur's farm at 9 a.m. on August 17, 1969,
Jimi Hendrix's radical Star Spangled Banner was an apt metaphor for the music festival that became a cultural signifier. That song, in all of its ...