Track Listing 1. TROUBLE 2. And I Love You So 3. Susan When She Tried 4. Woman Without Love 5. Shake A Hand 6. Pieces Of My Life 7. Fairytale 8. I Can Help 9. Bringing It Back 10. Green Green Grass Of Home
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Felton Jarvis | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals); James Burton, John Wilkinson, Johnny Christopher, Chip Young, Charlie Hodge (guitar); Weldon Myrick (steel guitar); Buddy Spicher (fiddle); Glen Hardin, David Briggs, Tony Brown, Jimmy Gordon (keyboards); Duke Bardwell, Norbert Putnam, Mike Leech (bass); Ronnie Tutt (drums); Voice, Charlie Hodge, Mary Holladay, Ginger Holladay, Millie Kirkham, Lea Berinati (background vocals).Engineers include: Al Pachucki, Mike Shockley.Reissue producer: Chick Crumpacker.Recorded at RCA Studios, Hollywood, California from March 10-13, 1975.A uniformly strong selection of songs and cleaner-than-usual production make TODAY one of Elvis Presley's better '70s studio efforts. From its opening track "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" (later a hit for Travis Tritt), TODAY announces that it is not just another collection of regret-filled ballads from the King. Sure, there are a few torch songs here, but on TODAY the tear-jerkers are balanced out by such up-tempo numbers as "Susan When She Tried," the inspirational "Shake A Hand," and a cover of the Billy Swan hit "I Can Help." On other tracks, Presley transforms the Pointer Sisters' hit "Fairytale" into a two-step and belts out a Tom Jones-like version of the death-row weeper "Green, Green Grass of Home." Throughout, Elvis' crack band sparkles, with guitarist James Burton in particularly fine form. Don't let the nearly identical covers RCA slapped on Presley's Seventies albums fool you: not all Elvis albums from this era are the same. Each has something to recommend it, but TODAY has more than the standard share of highlights.
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