Word: tupelo
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...loved ones - was sung as a cry of sexual deprivation. Elvis' "White Christmas" borrows heavily from the 1954 doo-wop version by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters; but most of the other renditions are not so extreme. He does an excellent, committed "Silent Night," with careful intonations that his Tupelo elocution teacher would've been proud of (a soft hammering of those final t's). And "Here Comes Santa Claus" shows how much the crooner in Elvis owed to Crosby...
...drummer/mandolinist and Mather alum) and Altay Guvench ’03 (bassist and Pforzheimer House alum) has constructed a group of strikingly diverse tracks, which share an underpinning sensibility and a roots-rock/Americana vibe that never sounds derivative despite occasional homage to early Wilco, Son Volt or Uncle Tupelo...
...Johnny Cash is the father of country-fried rock-and-roll, Jeff Tweedy is his bastard son. The music of both artists inspires a mystical allure and hardcore following that tags them as true pioneers. Emerging from his distinctly twangy Uncle Tupelo past, Wilco’s frontman still carries something distinctly country in his weathered face and immortal voice...
...Presley was not unaware of black music. In fact, he was a fan. "The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doing now, man, for more years than I know," Elvis told reporters in 1956. "I got it from them. Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw." (One could reasonably argue that Crudup's original...
...this was essential to the creation of a cult religion. Presley had to suffer in the only way a celebrity can, through self-humiliation. This soldered the bond between a onetime poor boy from Tupelo, Miss., and his blue-collar, blue-haired or red-white-and-blue fans. He was both beyond and beneath - above them and one of them. And if Elvis didn't die, how could he come back to life, in the Resurrection of the one true King...