RETRI EVER, APRI L 5,1976 PAGE 7 Music-Lifestyle Train" and "That's Alri~t". "I Love You Because" is an early example of the type of crooning that used to make Elvis fans swoon. April Album Avarice These old mono cuts are a true delight. For those of us who were toddling about in diapers and for whom the name Elvis has Lonnie Liston Smith Echoes While Elvis Rocks And Olivia Sweets On' the Status of legend, these rock'n'. roll artifacts are a perffect ticket to the real By Elias Lieberman roots of rock. "ELVIS - THE SUN SESSIONS" - Elvis "COME ON OVER" - Olivia Newton­ REFLECTIONS OF A GOLDEN DREAM John - Lonnie Liston Smith and Cosmic Echoes Presley (RCA Recor~s) (MCS Records (Flying Dutchma.!l R-:cords) Lonnie Liston ~mith is a mUSlClan of "So when the first rock generation did Olivia Newton-John exudes sweetness multiple textures. His music is charac­ erupt like an angry volcano in the mid­ and light but I guess she wouldn't have it terized by a snythesis of sounds which he fifties it may have apewed out an ill­ any other way. "Come on Over," her combines into a style uniquely his. matched bunch of rebellious soda-jerk latest album, is a sweet confection, a fairly "Reflections of a Golden Dream his outlaws, but Presley was always the bland but pretty collection of love songs. latest album. is beautifully crafted work universal hero. Hot 'n' nasty, suleen 'n' I will be the first to admit that this lady which follows in the same vein as Ex­ sexy. In action it appeared that his central has a oory fine voice. Her rendition of pansions and Visions of a -New World. nervous system was centralised two foot Dolly Parton's " Jole~e" is a great song. Through the u~ of acoustic piano, six inches above stage level. Presley was It's well produced and nicely handled by electric piano and electronic colorations, the devil in disguise, and it appeared that Ms. Newton-John. "Pony Ride" is another Lonnie Liston Smith has perfected a everyone under 25 had sympathy for the tasty cut from this album, a slower more " dream-state" kind of music. Soft devil." emotional sort of delivery set upon a lovely melodies weave and intervine, carried -Roy Carr from the liner notes of "Elvis­ tune. "Greensleeves" gets a ridiculous along by sweet flute and saxaphone lines, The Sun Sessions" treatment with a tiny choir . and Olivia and kept vibrant by an underpinning of trying to sound abloutely pristine. soft, almost Latin, percussion. His titles One hot summer day in 1953 , a truck The remainder of the album consists of reflect accurately the quality of his music. driver for the Crown Electric Company of not-very-distinguishable compositions. "Quiet Dawn", " Meditations" and "Inner . Memphis stopped by Sun Records to Stylistically, they range from schmaltz to Beauty" are all incredibly lyrical, flowing record a song on a ten-inch piece of quasi-country. If you 've a sweet tooth or compositions. David Smith, Lonnie's acetate. It was to be a present for his the heart of an incurable romantic then brother, plays flute in the Cosmic Echoes mother's birthday. Within two years that you might go for this one. and handles the vocals on two cuts, "Peace truck driver was to take possession of the and Love" and "Beautiful Woman". His is first of what was to be a fleet of Cadillacs. a fine and resonant voice, equal to his skill His name was Elvis Presley. as a flautist. When Elvis walked into Sun Record What makes Lonnie Liston Smith more Studios in 1953 he brought with him a voice intriguing is his ability to switch from a and a style of rockabilly black blues music low-key lyricism to a sassy, funky song that caught the attention of Sun Records like "Get Down Everybody (It's time For producer Sam Phillips. Phillips saw World Peace) ", the cut which opens the potential in that crude but sensuous boice album. The churning percussion provided and began to groom Presley into by Leopoldo Fleming and Guilherme something marketable. By fhe time Franco is the source of the excitement this Presley signed with RCA he had already music generates. Smith's acoustic piano created a string of releases on the Sun phrasing on " Meditations" reveal a label. RCA subsequently bought up these dedicated approach to the keyboard and a tapes and has now released a collection of healthy respect for the left hand in these vintage relics of rock history. playing. The Sun releases are characterized by a This is a topnotch al bum. one of the rough and raw intensity. Heavy treatment better examples of creative musicianship with reverberation lends them that old that dares to explore a variety of styles rock'n'roll quality that groups have been Lonnie Liston Smith and textures. trying to recapture to this very day. On all the cuts Elvis is up front with his silky, rockabilly delivery. He plays acoustic rythm guitar and is backed up on these sessions by electric guitar, acoustic bass and drums. The sound is lean but adequate Story Of 1,672 Meals and the primitive vitality of this classic sound still comes through. 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