Hot! Johnny Cash Remembers Elvis Presley

There were lots of white-colored persons listening to be able to 'race music' driving closed doors. Of course, a lot of them (some of us) were pretty start about it, a lot of famously Elvis Presley . Elvis has been witout a doubt creating noise inside Memphis when I received there inside '54. Sam Phillips acquired unveiled his or her primary single, That's All Right, Mama, along with Blue Moon associated with Kentucky within the 'B' side, and it also was shredding upward the particular airwaves.

The first time I found Elvis, singing coming from your flatbed truck in the Katz drugstore opening on Lamar Avenue, several $ 100 or so people, generally teenage girls, acquired turn out to determine him. With only 1 sole in order to his / her credit, he sang individuals a couple songs over plus over. That's at first chance I achieved him. Vivian plus I journeyed up to your pet following show, and he invited us that will his up coming time frame in the Eagle's Nest, a new club offered simply by Sleepy-Eyed John, your disc jockey who'd taken his name from your Merle Travis music and also has been equally critical when Dewey Phillips throughout getting Sun tunes released to the world.

I remember Elvis' display in the Eagle's Nest because in case were yesterday. The night out appeared to be a blunder, since the area ended up being an adult club exactly where kids were unable welcome, and for that reason Vivian and I were two with simply twelve as well as hence patrons, fifteen with the most. All the same, I thought Elvis had been great. He sang That's All Right, Mama and Blue Moon of Kentucky as just stated (and again) plus a few dark-colored blues melodies and also a couple of quantities for instance Long Tall Sally, and he or she did not express much. He failed to include to, of course; his charisma alone stored personnel attention. The idea I actually observed this night, though, has been his guitar playing. Elvis ended up being a fantastic beat player. He'd get started in to That's All Right, Mama with his personal instrument alone, so you decided not to wish to hear anything else. I decided not to anyway. I had been disappointed as soon as Scotty Moore and Bill Black jumped within as well as protected your pet up. Not that Scotty as well as Bill wasn't fantastic with regard to the pup - the way he seemed with these that evening has been what exactly I think of while seminal Presley, your sound I missed by way of the many ages after he / she became so well-known and produced documents packed with orchestration plus overproduction. I adored of which clean, uncomplicated mixture connected with Scotty, Bill, and Elvis together with his acoustic guitar. You know, I've under no circumstances heard or even understand any one different praising Elvis for a groove electric guitar player, and following a Sun days and nights I certainly not over heard his or her very own classical guitar upon his / her records.

That nights along at the Eagle's Nest, I remember, he / she was actively playing a Martin and he ended up being dressed inside newest young adults fashion. I feel his shirt originated in the actual National Shirt Shop, where you could get something noisy plus flashy and also something in the fine abundant black pertaining to $3.98 (I did), nevertheless perhaps by way of in that case he would started off browsing at Lansky Brothers . If your dog hadn't, the item was not extended ahead of he / she did. I was in presently there me personally not one but two or three times in '55 in addition to '56.

Elvis and I mentioned music, nevertheless I never spoken to help him or her related to as well as any other connection in the new music business. I desired to make it on my personal devices, and that is the way I go about accomplishing it.