With Elvis' upcoming concert activities increasing, future studio time would be limited and so the goal of these sessions was to generate perhaps a year's worth of new songs. Given the prolific output of great recordings created by Elvis and his musicians during the fabled 1970 marathon sessions that may be heard on From Elvis In Nashville, RCA and the Elvis camp decided to stick with the winning combination of tight band, seasoned studio, well-chosen repertoire and relaxed spontaneous Elvis behind the microphone and, once again, record as much material as possible over a short period of time. A key difference between Elvis' 19 Nashville sessions is that many of the 1971 recordings included backing singers therefore, Elvis: Back In Nashville offers a variety of song performances both with and without vocal augmentation.
Like its predecessor, From Elvis In Nashville (released November 2020), Elvis: Back In Nashville is designed to showcase Elvis Presley and his core band as they sounded during the actual sessions without orchestral overdubs and vocal accompaniment. Elvis: Back in Nashville was overseen by mixing engineer Matt Ross-Spang, known for his work with Margo Price and Jason Isbell.Ī 2-LP 12" vinyl version of the album will also be available. Due November 12th, the box will be released as a four-CD collection, digitally, and as a two-LP vinyl set. Unlike those sessions, the 1971 recordings made heavy use of backup singers - Elvis: Back in Nashville includes many of those performances.Īlong with Presley's version of Sainte-Marie's 'Until It's Time for You to Go', Back in Nashville includes his interpretations of songs by Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, and Gordon Lightfoot. 'I'm not a king, just a man, take my hand', Presley sings in a self-referential lyric that pokes at the vocalist's royal nickname.Įlvis: Back in Nashville is the follow-up to last year's box set From Elvis in Nashville, which chronicled his night-to-morning sessions at RCA Studio A in 1970. A rare alternate version of Presley's 'Until It's Time for You to Go' premieres Friday, a highlight of the upcoming box set Elvis: Back in Nashville. It's a heartbreaker of a song about loving someone before you part ways forever, and it caught the ear of Elvis Presley, who released his own version in 1972.
This set marks the definitive presentation of Presley's May-June 1971 Nashville studio sessions (his last in Nashville) and will be released November 12, 2021.īuffy Sainte-Marie, the Indigenous folk singer known for the story-of-life hit 'The Circle Game', wrote 'Until It's Time for You to Go' back in 1965. We have another preview for the upcoming ' Elvis back In Nashville' set, this time, take 5 of 'Until It's Time For You To Go'.