Elvis Presley followers will get one other repair of his unaugmented studio classes on Aug. 1 when RCA/Legacy releases “Sundown Boulevard,” a five-CD boxed set that can give attention to materials the King was recording in Los Angeles over the last years of his life within the Seventies.

Additionally obtainable in digital format, “Sundown Boulevard” guarantees 89 rarities, over half of which have by no means been beforehand launched within the U.S., in accordance with a press launch.

To preview the set a month and a half our from the complete providing, Sony Music has launched “Burning Love (Take 2)” to digital providers. It’s an instance of the uncommon alternate variations of late-period Elvis chestnuts included within the assortment, which additionally sports activities totally different takes on tunes like “T-R-O-U-B-L-E” and “Separate Methods.”

Past the complete CD and digital iterations, right here may also be a vinyl launch — a two-LP set that will probably be made up of the primary two discs from the five-CD assortment.

The music contained within the vinyl double-album and the primary two-fifths of the CD field is described as a “highlights” set. A type of discs will function new, beforehand unreleased mixes from Grammy winner Matt Ross-Spang, by which all overdubs may have been faraway from the recordings, “delivering contemporary insights within the course of,.” The second disc will function choose studio outtakes.

And or those that go for the entire assortment of music in CD or digital codecs, the ultimate three discs’ value of fabric will provide “a behind-the-scenes have a look at Elvis’ history-making Las Vegas residency,” that includes Presley and his TCB Band engaged in rehearsals for the Vegas sting in L.A. in July 1970 and August 1974.

Followers might observe that the 1974 recordings function two songs that Presley by no means recorded a studio for: “Twelfth of By no means,” a 1957 Johnny Mathis hit, and “Softly as I Depart You.” Among the many extra acquainted tunes heard within the assortment are rawer variations of Kris Kristofferson’s “For The Good Occasions,” Paul Williams’ “The place Do I Go From Right here,” Billy Swan’s “I Can Assist” and Don McLean’s “And I Love You So.”

The boxed set will embrace archival pictures, new liner notes from music historian Colin Escott and an introduction by Presley’s longtime pal Jerry Schilling.

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Vinyl buffs may look out for a colour vinyl model of the two-LP set that’s unique to the Graceland retailer and web site; the model in retail shops will probably be black vinyl.

Among the materials on the final three CDs has beforehand been launched by means of the FTD sequence, which is marketed solely to critical collectors as restricted editions.

Throughout Elvis Week 2025 in Memphis, Sony Music will maintain a listening occasion at Graceland’s Visitor Home Theater on Aug. 13, that includes a Q&A with particular visitors.

The complete monitor record for “Sundown Boulevard”:

Disc 1 – The Masters

  1. Burning Love
  2. At all times On My Thoughts
  3. The place Do I Go From Right here
  4. Separate Methods
  5. For The Good Occasions
  6. It’s A Matter Of Time
  7. Idiot
  8. T-R-O-U-B-L-E
  9. And I Love You So
  10. Susan When She Tried
  11. Lady With out Love
  12. Shake A Hand
  13. Items Of My Life
  14. Fairytale
  15. I Can Assist
  16. Bringin’ It Again
  17. Inexperienced, Inexperienced Grass Of House

Disc 2 – Outtakes Highlights

  1. Separate Methods – Take 25
  2. For The Good Occasions – Take 3
  3. The place Do I Go From Right here – Take 2
  4. Burning Love – Take 2
  5. Idiot – Take 1
  6. At all times On My Thoughts – Take 2
  7. It’s A Matter Of Time – Takes 1–3
  8. It’s A Matter Of Time – Take 4
  9. Fairytale – Take 2
  10. Inexperienced, Inexperienced Grass Of House – Takes 2 and three
  11. And I Love You So – Take 2
  12. Susan When She Tried – Takes 1 and a couple of
  13. T-R-O-U-B-L-E – Take 1
  14. Tiger Man
  15. Shake A Hand – Take 2
  16. Bringin’ It Again – Takes 2 and three
  17. Items Of My Life – Takes 2 and three

Disc 3 – July 24, 1970 rehearsal:

  1. That’s All Proper
  2. I Obtained A Lady
  3. I Obtained A Lady
  4. The Marvel Of You
  5. I’ve Misplaced You
  6. The Subsequent Step Is Love
  7. Stranger In The Crowd
  8. You’ve Misplaced That Lovin’ Feelin’
  9. One thing
  10. Don’t Cry Daddy
  11. Don’t Cry Daddy
  12. You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
  13. Polk Salad Annie
  14. Bridge Over Troubled Water
  15. I Can’t Cease Loving You
  16. Simply Faux
  17. Candy Caroline
  18. Love Me Tender
  19. Phrases
  20. Suspicious Minds
  21. I Simply Can’t Assist Believin’
  22. I Simply Can’t Assist Believin’

Disc 4 – July 24, 1970 rehearsal (continued):

  1. Tomorrow By no means Comes
  2. Mary In The Morning
  3. Twenty Days And Twenty Nights
  4. You’ve Misplaced That Lovin’ Feelin’
  5. Simply Can’t Assist Believin’
  6. Coronary heart Of Rome
  7. Coronary heart Of Rome
  8. Reminiscences
  9. Johnny B. Goode
  10. Make The World Go Away
  11. Stranger In My Personal House City
  12. I Washed My Fingers in Muddy Water
    August 16, 1974 rehearsal
  13. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
  14. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
  15. Promised Land
  16. Promised Land
  17. Down In The Alley
  18. Down In The Alley

Disc 5 – August 16, 1974 rehearsal (continued):

  1. It’s Midnight
  2. It’s Midnight
  3. Your Love’s Been A Lengthy Time Coming
  4. Good Time Charlie’s Obtained The Blues
  5. Softly As I Depart You
  6. Softly As I Depart You
  7. I’m Leavin’
  8. The First Time Ever I Noticed Your Face
  9. Proud Mary
  10. If You Discuss In Your Sleep
  11. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
  12. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
  13. The Twelfth Of By no means
  14. Light Love
  15. Simply Faux

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