a blog about elvis presley's music and records
IN THE GHETTO includes articles that don’t fit under the other, more specific category titles. This includes aspects of Presley’s personal life, and criticisms of other writers and critics for their promulgating non-facts, myths, and lies about Elvis.
A regular target is Wikipedia, where writers who know little about the history of rock & roll write articles which are approved by editors who apparently know less.
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I SWEAR I DID NOT COME CLOSE to the Publish button while working on this piece! Still, somehow managed to “publish” this incomplete article and have to deal with the fallout. And I wasn’t even planning on publishing this article on this blog—I was going to move it on over to my Rather Rare Records blog. [Continue reading]
I WAS SITTING AT THE BAR ALONE, sipping bourbon. It was the middle of August, so normally I would be at my job with Luzerne County Roads & Bridges, patching potholes on the county road in Sweet Valley. But I had injured myself and so had a week off to get better. [Continue reading]
MY NEWEST ENDEAVOR is writing a column for another blog! The blog is Sixties Music Secrets, an informative audio/visual blog with insight-filled conversations between knowledgeable, curious, and nostalgic readers regarding all things musical from the 1960s. The column is “The Avid Record Collector.”
In this column, I will look at records that were mass-produced in the 1960s and subsequently deleted from record company catalogs. [Continue reading]
SO I OPEN UP MY EMAIL and there’s a notification telling me that someone requests my answer to a question on Quora. I tend to ignore these questions as many are idiotic and are just a means for the asker to get some attention on Quora. But the question was “Is it weird that so many people impersonate Elvis?” [Continue reading]
I AM THE BEARER OF BAD TIDINGS: My friend and co-author John Walker Ross passed away on February 9, 2021, and this is an obituary of sorts and a tribute. I stumbled over John’s blog The Round Place In The Middle several years ago and spent the day reading his articles. [Continue reading]