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Jul 5, 2024 · Seventy years ago today, Elvis Presley recorded “That’s All Right” at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, with guitarist Scotty Moore and standup bassist Bill Black, and with producer Sam Phillips. The recording was not, as legend has it, The Big Bang of Rock & Roll.
Jul 1, 2024 · Review of book "Don't Be Cruel, Elvis" - a memoir from Bill Black's family. This is a great book, well worth having in your collection if you are interested in the early days history of...
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5 days ago · Several weeks worth of recording sessions ensued with a band consisting of Presley, guitarist Scotty Moore, and bassist Bill Black. Their repertoire consisted of the kind of material for which Presley would become famous: blues and country songs, Tin Pan Alley ballads , and gospel hymns.
2 days ago · Presley, on rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat -driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues.
1 day ago · Elvis to Lisa Marie. During the 1954 Shell show (general admission: $1), "Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill" — to quote the billing as it appears on the labels of the trio's Sun records ...
Jul 5, 2024 · He and his bandmates Scotty Moore and Bill Black were about to pack up and go to bed. INSKEEP: Until Elvis began singing an old blues song. Here's how guitarist Scotty Moore told it to NPR in...
8 hours ago · Which musician introduced Elvis Presley to the blues? Guy Howie. Fri 26 July 2024 2:00, UK. In Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 biopic Elvis, we see a young Elvis Presley sneaking up to a joint in Tulepo, Mississippi, peering through a crack in its wooden walls and being exposed to the devil’s music for the first time. This artistic rendering of Presley ...
