Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)
Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | January 7, 1971[1] | |||
Recorded | June 4–8 and September 22, 1970 | |||
Studio | RCA Studio B (Nashville) | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 38:49 | |||
RCA Victor | ||||
Producer | Felton Jarvis | |||
Elvis Presley chronology | ||||
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Singles from Elvis Country | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B−[3] |
MusicHound | [4] |
Rough Guides | [5] |
Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) is the 13th
The lead single of the album, "I Really Don't Want to Know" backed with "There Goes My Everything", was released on December 8, 1970 and peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, number two on the Adult Contemporary chart, and number 23 on the country singles chart.[9]
Content
The bulk of the album came from five days of recording sessions in June 1970 which yielded 35 usable tracks. Presley performed every track "live", recording his vocal part in the same take as the band, as was standard practice for him. Eight tracks from the session were released two months earlier in November 1970 on the
Nearly every style of country music is represented: bluegrass, honky tonk, Western swing, rockabilly, countrypolitan, and even the then-nascent "outlaw" movement. Snippets of the song "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago" act as a bridge between each track.
After this album, Presley would return to his usual practice of recording a seemingly random batch of songs on each trip to the recording studio, letting his producer assemble them into albums.
Cover
The sleeve image is a
Reissues
The June 14, 2004, compact disc reissue included six bonus tracks from the same sessions. Three of them had been previously released on the LP Love Letters from Elvis. The others were the B-side "Where Did They Go, Lord?" (a track that made its first LP appearance on the 1978 compilation He Walks Beside Me) and the unabridged version of "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago" later released on Elvis Now.
In 2008 Elvis Country was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in a special two-disc edition that contained the original album tracks along with numerous alternate takes. In late 2011, RCA Legacy (owned by Sony) announced a two-CD "Legacy Edition" set of the Elvis Country album. Enthusiasm was short-lived as fans quickly criticized the decision to pair the album with the leftover set that was 1970's Love Letters LP instead of compiling rarities from the acclaimed Elvis Country set.[citation needed] However, both albums originated from the same recording sessions. An unreleased Quadraphonic version is also known to exist.
Track listing
Original release
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Recording date | Length |
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1. | " Tomorrow Never Comes" | Johnny Bond, Ernest Tubb | June 7, 1970 | 4:07 |
3. | "Little Cabin on the Hill" | Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt | June 4, 1970 | 1:58 |
4. | "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" | Dave "Curlee" Williams, Sunny David | September 22, 1970 | 3:10 |
5. | "Funny How Time Slips Away" | Willie Nelson | June 7, 1970 | 4:32 |
6. | "I Really Don't Want to Know" | Howard Barnes, Don Robertson | June 7, 1970 | 2:59 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Recording date | Length |
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1. | " I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water" | Joe Babcock | June 7, 1970 | 3:54 |
6. | "Make the World Go Away" | Hank Cochran | June 7, 1970 | 3:46 |
2000 reissue bonus tracks
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Recording date | Length | |
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13. | "It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)" | Shorty Hall, Alice Joy Merritt, Neal Merritt | June 6, 1970 | 2:47 | |
14. | "A Hundred Years From Now" | I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago " | Traditional | June 4, 1970 | 3:13 |
2012 legacy edition reissue
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | " A.L. "Doodle" Owens | 2:27 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | " Heart of Rome" | Alan Blaikley, Ken Howard, Geoff Stephens | 2:56 |
6. | "Only Believe" | Paul Rader | 2:50 |
7. | "This is Our Dance" | Les Reed, Geoff Stephens | 3:16 |
8. | "Cindy, Cindy" | Dolores Fuller, Buddy Kaye, Ben Weisman | 2:32 |
9. | "I'll Never Know" | Fred Karger, Sid Wayne, Ben Weisman | 2:25 |
10. | "It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)" | Shorty Hall, Alice Joy Merritt, Neal Merritt | 2:49 |
11. | "Life" | Shirl Milete | 3:10 |
12. | "The Sound of Your Cry" | Bernie Baum, Bill Giant, Buddy Kaye | 3:17 |
13. | "Sylvia" | Geoff Stephens and Les Reed | 3:17 |
14. | "Rags to Riches" | Richard Adler and Jerry Ross | 1:54 |
Personnel
Sourced from Keith Flynn.[13][14][15][16][17][18]
- Elvis Presley – lead vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar on "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago" and "Little Cabin on the Hill", harmony vocals on "Snowbird" and "There Goes My Everything"
- James Burton – lead guitar, dobro
- Chip Young – acoustic rhythm guitar
- Eddie Hinton – lead guitar on "Snowbird" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
- David Briggs – piano, organ on "Little Cabin on the Hill" and "I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water"
- Norbert Putnam – bass
- Jerry Carrigan – drums
- Charlie McCoy – harmonica, organ, vibraphone on "I Really Don't Want to Know"
- Charlie Hodge – acoustic rhythm guitar except "Snowbird" and "Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On"
- Overdubbed
- Farrell Morris – percussion and timpanion "Snowbird", "Funny How Time Slips Away", "Make the World Go Away", "I Really Don't Want To Know", "Faded Love", and "Tomorrow Never Comes"
- Harold Bradley – electric sitar on "Snowbird"
- Weldon Myrick – pedal steel guitaron "Little Cabin on the Hill"
- Bobby Thompson – banjo (on "Little Cabin on the Hill")
- Buddy Spicher – fiddle (on "Little Cabin on the Hill")
- The Imperials Quartet – backing vocals
- The Jordanaires – backing vocals (on "Funny How Time Slips Away", "There Goes My Everything", and "Make The World Go Away")
- Joe Babcock – backing vocals
- Millie Kirkham – backing vocals
- Mary Holladay – backing vocals
- Ginger Holladay – backing vocals
- June Page – backing vocals
- Sonja Montgomery – backing vocals
- Dolores Edgin – backing vocals
- Mary Greene – backing vocals
- Temple Riser – backing vocals
- Cam Mullins – string arrangements
- Don Tweedy – string arrangements
- Bergen White – horn arrangements
- Production staff
- Felton Jarvis – producer
References
- ^ "Elvis Presley Discography". www.keithflynn.com.
- AllMusic
- ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 10, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
- ISBN 1-84353-417-7.
- ^ "Elvis Presley Pop Albums - Billboard's Top Pop Albums". Elvis Presley: The Official Site of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. 2013. Archived from the original on November 8, 2010. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ^ "Elvis Express Radio - The UK Album Charts". 2013. Archived from the original on September 2, 2017. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ^ "Searchable database". RIAA. Recording Industry Association of America. 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2013. Note: Enter search for "Elvis Country"
- ^ "Elvis Country Awards". AllMusic. Rovi Corp. 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ^ Guralnick, Peter (March 4, 1971). "Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)". Rolling Stone.
- ^ "A History Of Artists Who Use Their Own Baby Pics As Album Covers (LIST)". August 22, 2013.
- ^ "What's Up With All Those Baby Photos on Rap Album Covers?".
- ^ "Elvis Presley Recording Sessions".
- ^ "Elvis Presley Recording Sessions".
- ^ "Elvis Presley Recording Sessions".
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- ^ "Elvis Presley Recording Sessions".
- ^ "Elvis Presley Recording Sessions".
External links
- Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) at Discogs (list of releases)