The Sun Sessions

RELEASE
LABEL
BMG International
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Traditional Country, Rockabilly, Rock & Roll, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Early Pop/Rock, AM Pop

Album Review

This is it, your perfect starting point to understanding how Elvis -- as Howlin' Wolf so aptly put it -- "made his pull from the blues." All the source points are there for the hearing; Arthur Crudup's "That's All Right (Mama)," Roy Brown's "Good Rockin' Tonight," Kokomo Arnold's "Milkcow Blues Boogie," Arthur Gunter's "Baby, Let's Play House," and Junior Parker's "Mystery Train." Modern day listeners coming to these recordings for the first time will want to reclassify this music into a million subgenres, with all the hyphens firmly in place. But what we ultimately have here is a young Elvis Presley, mixing elements of blues, gospel and hillbilly music together and getting ready to unleash its end result -- rock & roll -- on an unsuspecting world.
Cub Koda, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. That's All Right
  2. Blue Moon of Kentucky
  3. I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine
  4. Good Rockin' Tonight
  5. Milk Cow Blues
  6. You're a Heartbreaker
  7. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone
  8. Baby Let's Play House
  9. Mystery Train
  10. I Forgot to Remember to Forget
  11. I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')
  12. Trying to Get to You
  13. I Love You Because
  14. Blue Moon
  15. Just Because
  16. I Love You Because [2nd Version]