Elvis’ guitar fetches more than $25,000 in Heritage auction

Heritage Auctions recently sold the guitar Elvis Presley played in the movie “Follow That Dream” for $26,290. (Courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries)
Heritage Auction Galleries sold nearly $650,000 worth of music, TV and movie memorabilia in its Signature Music & Entertainment Memorabilia Auction held June 5 and 6. In the music category, an acoustic guitar owned [...]

King of the Road

Local author documents Elvis Presleys travels through Texas in new book
Seated comfortably inside 87-year-old Tom Perrymans East Texas living room, tape recorder in hand, Stanley Oberst listens attentively to the radio icon. The walls in Perrymans home bear pictures of Jim Reeves, various Grand Ole Opry performers and even a picture of an [...]

Remembering Lee Denson

Lee Denson, born in 1932, who recorded at Hollywood’s Goldstar Studio in 1957 the classic rockabilly song “New Shoes”, with Eddie Cochran (gtr) and Connie “Guybo” Smith (bs), just passed away and was buried on Saturday, November 10th. That song was written by Eddie Cochran’s early mentor, Ray Stanley, and VIK (an RCA subsidiary label) [...]

Elvis In Session 1969

Here’s a great four part feature over at Goldminemag.com Its worth shooting over there and having a look.

In Session: Elvis’ 1969 revival, Part I
Dive behind the scenes of the legendary Memphis session recordings that yielded Suspicious Minds and other hits as The King won back his throne.
In Session: Elvis’ 1969 revival, Part II
In Part I, [...]