OT - Elvis Presley - An American Trilogy
Date: February 18, 2005 14:42
This song cannot be classified in any music style. By all formal standards, it is kitsch and rococo - and you may even ask yourself how Elvis and his band put it together.
But every time I listen to it, I get thrilled, felling cold-skinned, with a mix of joy and sadness.
Even with Las Vegas style – or, to the contrary, maybe enhanced by it - An American Trilogy definitely embodies the last, glorious, and decadent Elvis years.
I would dare to call it his Midnight Rambler, not musically of course, but because it is his musical live masterpiece, a stage peak, a number that no one can match, or put into shape without being ridiculous. Only Elvis could