Elvis' best album, bar none

Elvis has a lot of albums, too many for any one person to even listen to. So get this one first, then maybe try a Greatest Hits compilation.

Even if you don't like Elvis, get this one, you'll like it. If you like early rock and roll, and raw energy and great rock and roll singing, you'll like this.

I'm not much of an Elvis fan. I mean, I think he was one of rock's best performers, early on, and made some great songs like Jailhouse Rock and so on. But overall, others - like Jerry Lee, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. - did it better.

But this album goes right up there with the best of these great performers.

A "must own" cd.

Rock and Roll Ground Zero

If you do not know this record you do not know Elvis. Judging by the lack of reviews not many people really know Elvis.

SS is the Holy Grail of rock and roll. Could Sam Philips put any one in the Sun Studios and have a hit come out . Or was Elvis the one true king ? You decide any way you look at it this is great Rock and Roll and a true must have for any Rock and Roll collection

The beginning

I'll agree with the other reviewers that Elvis was never exactly like this again, but I don't agree that he never scaled the same heights later.

In these sessions, unlike most all others, he actually created what we're hearing, turning previously recorded songs into something completely new. The result is a freshness, passion and rawness that one never tires of hearing.

To those who think it was all downhill from here, I would encourage them to listen to 'Reconsider Baby', 'One Night' or any number of other R&B masterpieces. Look at what he did with 'Jailhouse Rock': this would be a novelty song in anyone else's hands and he turns in one of the most amazing performances in rock history. Or check out the '68 TV special, where something is on the line again, and where he delivers down and dirty rock like very few others are capable of.

Unfortunately, his greatest works are buried among moutains of dross, but he was the greatest talent ever in rock, despite all that, and searching out his best moments, like this one, is to be thrilled by rock-and-roll again.