Today [Legacy Edition] [Slipcase]

Rating

Album: Today [Legacy Edition] [Slipcase]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	T-R-O-U-B-L-E	More Info...	0:03
2)	And I Love You So	More Info...	0:03
3)	Susan When She Tried	More Info...	0:02
4)	Woman Without Love	More Info...	0:03
5)	Shake a Hand	More Info...	0:03
6)	Pieces of My Life	More Info...	0:04
7)	Fairytale	More Info...	0:02
8)	I Can Help	More Info...	0:04
9)	Bringin' It Back	More Info...	0:03
10)	Green, Green Grass of Home	More Info...	0:03
11)	Fairytale (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:02
12)	Green, Green Grass of Home (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
13)	I Can Help (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:04
14)	And I Love You So (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
15)	Susan When She Tried (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:02
16)	T-R-O-U-B-L-E (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
17)	Woman Without Love (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
18)	Shake a Hand (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
19)	Bringing It Back (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
20)	Pieces of My Life (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:04
21)	Mystery Train/Tiger Man	More Info...	0:02
22)	Can't Help Falling in Love	More Info...	0:02

Album: Today [Legacy Edition] [Slipcase]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	T-R-O-U-B-L-E	More Info...	0:03
2)	And I Love You So	More Info...	0:03
3)	Susan When She Tried	More Info...	0:02
4)	Woman Without Love	More Info...	0:03
5)	Shake a Hand	More Info...	0:03
6)	Pieces of My Life	More Info...	0:04
7)	Fairytale	More Info...	0:02
8)	I Can Help	More Info...	0:04
9)	Bringin' It Back	More Info...	0:03
10)	Green, Green Grass of Home	More Info...	0:03
11)	Fairytale (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:02
12)	Green, Green Grass of Home (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
13)	I Can Help (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:04
14)	And I Love You So (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
15)	Susan When She Tried (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:02
16)	T-R-O-U-B-L-E (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
17)	Woman Without Love (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
18)	Shake a Hand (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
19)	Bringing It Back (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:03
20)	Pieces of My Life (Undubbed Version)	More Info...	0:04
21)	Mystery Train/Tiger Man	More Info...	0:02
22)	Can't Help Falling in Love	More Info...	0:02

Performer 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.
Personnel: Charlie Hodge (vocals, guitar); The Holladays, J.D. Sumner & the Stamps, Kathy Westmoreland, The Sweet Inspirations (vocals); Chip Young, John Wilkinson, James Burton, Johnny Christopher (guitar); Weldon Myrick (steel guitar); Buddy Spicher (fiddle); James Getzoff, William Kurasch, Raymond Kelley, Yukiko Kamei, Myer Bello, Tibor Zelig, Murray Adler, Harry Hyams, Sidney Sharp, Israel Baker, Jesse Ehrlich, Samuel Boghossian (strings); Charles Rose (saxophone); Ronnie Eades (baritone saxophone); Harrison Calloway, Jr. (trumpet); Harvey L. Thompson (trombone); Glen D. Hardin (piano); David Briggs (Clavinet); Ronnie Tutt (drums); Richard Morris (percussion); Joe Guercio and His Orchestra.
Liner Note Author: Stuart Colman.
Recording information: Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas (03/10/1975-03/12/1975); Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, Texas (03/10/1975-03/12/1975); Middle Tennessee State University, Athletic Center, Mur (03/10/1975-03/12/1975); Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee (03/10/1975-03/12/1975); Mississippi State Fair Coliseum, Jackson (03/10/1975-03/12/1975); RCA Recording Studios (Studio C), Hollywood (03/10/1975-03/12/1975).
Directors: John Jackson ; Tom Burleigh.
Photographers: George Hill; George Nathans; Linda Nathans.
As it turned out, Today would be the last full studio album Elvis Presley recorded in his life. Headed out to Hollywood to collect the Grammy he won for Best Inspirational Performance of 1975 (it was awarded for a live version of "How Great Thou Art"), Presley booked sessions in RCA's L.A. Studio C with his longtime producer Felton Jarvis and settled in to knock out ten songs over the course of three days. Because it opens with the rollicking boogie "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" -- a legitimate throwback to the dawn of rock & roll -- and also finds space for the down-and-dirty gospel-soul groove of "Shake a Hand" and Billy Swan's cheerful "I Can Help," Today was pegged upon its initial release as something of a return to Elvis' Sun roots, but the rest of the record plays straight down the middle: a collection of Presley's preferred majestic ballads and MOR pop tempered by a touch of lushly produced Nashville country. This combination had long been a winning one for Elvis -- it's the blend developed in the wake of 1971's Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) -- but in 1975, it was slightly past its sell-by date, so it didn't quite sell in blockbuster numbers ("T-R-O-U-B-L-E" did turn into a hit, nearly cracking the country Top Ten and revived in 1992 by Travis Tritt). Nevertheless, these era-specific concerns fade over time and leave Today standing as an excellent latter-day Elvis album. Those rockabilly revivals find Presley game and loose, as does a nimble version of the Statler Brothers' "Susan When She Tried"; the trio of orchestrated ballads (Don McLean's "And I Love You So," Jerry Chesnut's "Woman Without Love," Troy Seals' "Pieces of My Life") give Elvis an opportunity to find a moving heart beating underneath the shine, a skill that also enlivens an almost corny version of the '60s standard "Green, Green Grass of Home"; while the country reinvention of the Pointer Sisters' "Fairytale" and the soulful rendition of Gregg Gordon's "Bringin' It Back" are expert adult contemporary -- gorgeous and skirting the edges of being overwrought. Added up, Today touches upon nearly everything he did well in the mid-'70s -- a nice portrait of Elvis at a time when he was still an active, thriving working musician and a record that remains easy to enjoy today. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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