Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) 2 CD Set | FTD | Elvis Presley Classic Album

Follow That Dream Special Edition release of Elvis' January, 1971 album, Elvis Country a 2 disc set in the FTD Classic Album series. Recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville in 1970. This set is packaged in a 7" digipack featuring the original album art. Released at the same time was Nevada Nights a 2 CD set of soundboard's from August 1974, including the opening show.

How do you follow up an album like From Elvis In Memphis and the singles and follow up album that flowed from the 1969 recording sessions at Chip's Moman's Memphis American Sound Studio's? In February 1970 RCA recorded Elvis live in Las Vegas and released the classic live album, On Stage, but it was not until June of that year that Elvis re-entered a studio to cut an album proper. Elvis Country was the result, released in January 1971, it was Elvis' only real concept album and in my opinion does rate as Elvis best album.

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Track listing:

Disc 1 : The Original Album

1. Snowbird
2. Tomorrow Never Comes
3. Little Cabin On The Hill
4. Whole Lot-ta Shakin' Goin' On
5. Funny How Time Slips Away
6. I Really Don't Want To Know
7. There Goes My Everything
8. It's Your Baby, You Rock It
9. The Fool
10. Faded Love
11. I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
12. Make The World Go Away

Bonus Songs

13. I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
14. Where Did They Go, Lord

The Country Jam

15. Faded Love (Country Version)
16. The Fool : take 1
17. A Hundred Years From Now - takes 1 & 2
18. Little Cabin On The Hill : take 1

Alternate Masters

19. It's Your Baby, You Rock It : take 3
20. Faded Love : take 3

First Takes

21. Tomorrow Never Comes : take 1
22. Tomorrow Never Comes : take 2
23. Snowbird : rehearsal & take 1
24. Where Did They Go, Lord : takes1

Disc 2 : The Undubbed June 7 Masters

1. I Really Don't Want To Know*
2. Faded Love : takes 2 & 3*
3. Tomorrow Never Comes : takes 12 & 13*
4. Make The World Go Away : takes 1 & 3*
5. Funny How Time Slips Away*
6. I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water*

June Outtakes

7. I Didn't Make It On Playing Guitar
8. Tomorrow Never Comes : takes 3 & 11
9. There Goes My Everything : take 1

September Outtakes

10. September Warm Up (instrumental)
11. Snowbird : takes 4,5 & 2
12. Where Did They Go, Lord takes 2 & 3
13. Whole Lot-ta Shakin' Goin On : rough mix with horns

Bonus Cuts : Undubbed Rough Mixes

14. When I'm Over You*
15. The Next Step Is Love*
16. Love Letters*

* June 7 recordings. Rough mixes made by Felton Jarvis immediately after the sessions, before any overdubs were recorded. Album produced and art directed by Ernst Mikael Jorgensen & Roger Semon

Mastered by Lene Reidel and Vic Anesini
Original A&R: Felton Jarvis Original Engineer: Al Pachucki
Thanks and Erik Rasmussen

Recorded June 4-8 and September 22, 1970 at RCA's Studio B, Nashville.

Musicians:

Guitar: James Burton (June sessions), Eddie Hinton (September sessions), Chip Young, Elvis Presley
Bass: Norbert Putnam
Drums: Jerry Carrigan
Piano: David Briggs
Organ & Harmonica: Charlie McCoy

Overdubbed later:

Guitar: James Burton, Harold Bradley ('Snowbird' only)
Percussion: Jerry Carrigan
Percussion & Vibes: Farrell Morris
Organ: David Briggs
Steel guitar: Weldon Myrick
Banjo: Bobby Thompson ('Little Cabin On The Hill' only)
Fiddle: Buddy Spicher ('Little Cabin On The Hill' only)
Trumpet: Charlie McCoy, George Tidwell, Don Sheffield, Glenn Baxter
Sax: Wayne Butler, Norman Ray
Trombone: Gene Mullins
Flue and Trombone: William Puett
Flute, Sax And Clarinet: Skip Lane
Vocals: The Imperials, The Jordanaires, Millie Kirkham, Mary (Jeannie) Greene, Mary Holladay, Ginger Holladay, Temple Riser, June Page, Sonja Montgomery, Dolores Edgin

Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) 2 CD FTD Special Edition FTD CD

In June 1970, Elvis Presley held a five-day recording marathon, during which he completed 34 songs. The impressive results of these sessions allowed RCA to create two thematically coherent Elvis albums, Love Letters From Elvis and Elvis Country (other tracks from these sessions appear on That's The Way it Is and Elvis Now).

Album produced and art directed by Ernst Mikael Jorgensen & Roger Semon
Mastered by Lene Reidel and Vic Anesini
Original A&R: Felton Jarvis
Original Engineer: Al Pachucki
Thanks to and Erik Rasmussen

Recorded June 4-8 and September 22, 1970 at RCA's Studio B, Nashville.

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