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Fast Cars, Strip Bars, and Elvis, Even
Screens Story May 3, 2002
by Jerry Renshaw
Description: What's new, Pussycat? Onetime Russ Meyer leading lady Tura Satana comes to town for the first annual Alamo Drive-In.
Black Elvis
Music Story August 19, 1999
by Andy Langer
"...It's all so common. You turn the page and see a guy that looks like Elvis Presley or a guy with a bugged-out hat or wig on and it's something different...."
Elvis is Everywhere
May 19, 1995
by Jason Cohen
"...The life of the King is, of
course, something like the Second Greatest Story Ever Told - except that it's
probably been told even more times than the first one, by fans, hatchet men,
academics, so-called associates, and the tabloids. Could there possibly be
anything left to say? Guralnick is able to answer in the affirmative because he
chooses to look at Elvis Presley not as an icon or a star, but purely as a man
and an artist, with 10 years of research to back him up..."
Humble Me
Music Blog January 29, 2008
by Thomas Fawcett
Description: Sharon Jones sold out Austin, but she's nowhere near selling out.
"...Like a worn out cassette tape, it’s a scenario that has played out over and over again throughout modern music history: A young white performer borrows the sound of a black artist to disproportionate acclaim and compensation.
If you need a primer on said scenario check Mos Def’s “Rock N Roll” or Gil Scott-Heron’s “Ain’t No New Thing.” As Scott-Heron ever so delicately says in the intro, “Chuck Berry was doing a very heavy rock ‘n’ roll thing … but white people couldn’t dig having their daughters go to no shows and cream over no black man wiggling on the stage so consequently they invented Elvis Presley.” You could call this an oversimplification but it would be hard to call it entirely inaccurate...."
Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Music Blog September 2, 2009
by Jim Caligiuri
Description: Elvis Costello's spectacle at the Bass Concert Hall
"...For this tour he brought those musicians - Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Mike Compton, Jim Lauderdale, Dennis Crouch, and Jeff Taylor - with him for a nearly three hour performance that included almost all of Sugarcane and covers from Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Merle Haggard, the Grateful Dead, and one curve ball, the Rolling Stones. It was one of the most engaging performances I’ve seen the man give in more than 30 years of following his career...."
I Smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E
Music Blog August 15, 2008
by Margaret Moser
Description: The Continental's annual Elvis tribute slinks up
"...It’s the “King Conjure” name that doesn’t sit well with me, the diehard who loved “The Graceland Revue.” But I understand the Elvis Presley estate’s need to threaten respectful tributes like the annual one this weekend at the Continental Club. After all, unauthorized use of the King’s name might prevent Priscilla Presley from paying for the next injection of motor oil into her face or Lisa Marie from being able to stuff herself for her next kid...."
Kick It Off
Music Story April 4, 2008
by Jim Caligiuri
Description: Keith Richards never bought a Ricky Nelson album, only James Burton's LPs
"...In a career that stretches over more than a half-century, Burton's licks have marched through popular music, gracing the work of everyone from Elvis Presley (most famously) to Elvis Costello, Gram Parsons to Jim Lauderdale, Frank Sinatra to John Denver, the Monkees to Merle Haggard. His influence and the innovations he's brought to the art of the guitar are undeniable and incredibly far-reaching..."
Jailhouse Rock
Film Review August 20, 2002
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Elvis' third movie is surely his best. He plays a guy vaguely like himself, who hits it big after learning to play music while in prison. Not only does this...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Richard Thorpe. Starring: Elvis Presley and Judy Taylor..."
Letters at 3AM
Columns February 2, 2001
by Michael Ventura
Description: If you want to understand the legacy of Bill Clinton forget the Elvis analogies and remember Orson Welles, who created film characters marked by their own self-corruption.
After a Fashion
Columns October 9, 2009
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Stephen's Home Alone adventure was not at all like Macaulay Culkin's
"...WENT TO Last Thursday, I went to a party with Elvis Presley. "How so?" you might ask..."
Beyond Austin City Limits
Music Blog September 30, 2009
by Jim Caligiuri
Description: There's plenty to hear and see this weekend
"...The food is good and cheap, and you can join the dancing hippies if you’re so inclined. Later, again at the Continental, guitar god James Burton’s in town (he’s played with Elvis Presley and Elvis Costello), followed by T Bird & the Breaks, whose soul revue gets hotter every time they hit the stage...."
Book Review
Books Review June 26, 2009
by Marc Savlov
Description: Lansdale is Lansdale, his ownself, sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable
"...It's less a beach book, thank god, than a pond or crick or quarry read, compiling as it does Lansdale's best known – and frequently most disturbing – stories, every one of them a minimasterpiece of the short form. There's the incandescent, ink-stained horror of "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" (my own first introduction to Lansdale, circa 1988); the casual, perfectly captured redneck nightmare of "Night They Missed the Horror Show"; and, thanks to Don Coscarelli's film adaptation, Lansdale's most well-known novella, "Bubba Ho-Tep," which posits an unlikely nursing-home alliance between an aging Elvis Presley and a black man who may or may not be John F..."
Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble
Books Story June 26, 2009
by Joe O'Connell
Description: Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain
"...The post-atomic-bomb science-fiction tale "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back"? Too dark for the marketplace, Lansdale originally thought. "Bubba Ho-Tep" and its mix of an aged Elvis Presley, a black John F..."
Goodbye Solo
Film Review May 8, 2009
by Kimberley Jones
Description: This small marvel of a film by American portraitist Ramin Bahrani is a large-hearted examination of human curiosity and kindness and the limits of both. 
by Kimberley Jones
"...An American portraitist working in the same scope (but with more hope) as Wendy and Lucy’s Kelly Reichardt, Bahrani has made three films in four years, all of them critically acclaimed if underseen, and in 2008 he won the prestigious Someone to Watch Independent Spirit Award. Goodbye Solo – which continues the vehicular thread of his previous films, Man Push Cart and Chop Shop – tells the North Carolina-set story of the brief bond that forms between a Senegalese cab driver named Solo (Savané) and his frequent passenger, 70-year-old William (West, a former stunt actor and one of Elvis Presley's longtime bodyguards)..."
Gone Gone Gone
Music Blog May 7, 2009
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: The Head Cat himself, Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, talks in his sleep.
"...AC: You’re the generation for whom Elvis Presley is ground zero...."
SXSW Film
Screens Story March 20, 2009
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Teaming again with cinematographer Michael Simmonds, Bahrani creates the feel of a strikingly well-worn outsider universe. Newcomer Savané hits just the right notes as the well-meaning but unwanted chaperone, while West (one of Elvis Presley's original Memphis Mafia bodyguards) lends the film its touch of world-weariness..."
Event Menu
Food Column January 9, 2009
by Virginia B. Wood
Description: Your local foodie events for Jan. 8-10
"...• All five area Chuy's (www.chuys.com) locations celebrate the birthday of Elvis Presley this week with menu specials, impersonator performances, and party favors, plus commemorative drink cups and limited-edition T-shirts. Guests who arrive dressed as the King or Priscilla will receive free entrées..."
Happy New Year, 1954
Music Blog January 7, 2009
by Jim Caligiuri
Description: Pulling up the roots of rock
"...It’s also interesting to hear original versions of tunes that have become part of the rock and blues canon: “I Got Loaded,” “Baby, Don’t Do It,” “Shake a Hand,” “Eye Sight to the Blind.” Some might quibble with the tracks chosen to represent Little Richard and Fats Domino, or the absence of Elvis Presley and John Lee Hooker. The liner notes could be a bit more expansive as well..."
Karaoke Queen
Books Blog December 30, 2008
by Kate X Messer
Description: In honor of Brian Raftery's Don't Stop Believin' karaoke tome, K8X weighs in with her own karaoke lists.
"...22 Songs I'll Never Stop Singing at Karaoke
Paul McCartney Live & Let Die
U2 Pride (In the Name of Love)
Sweet Ballroom Blitz
Black Sabbath War Pigs
Tal Bachman She's So High
Elton John Philadelphia Freedom
Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit
Deep Purple Highway Star
Eric Burdon & Animals Spill the Wine
Righteous Brothers You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
Starbuck Moonlight Feels Right
Elvis Presley I Can't Help Falling in Love With You
Temptations Can't Get Next to You (solo, all parts)
Golden Earring Radar Love
Kelly Clarkson Since U Been Gone
Cornelius Brothers Treat Her Like a Lady
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Tom Jones What's New Pussycat
Todd Rundgren I Saw the Light
Joe Tex I Gotcha
Richard Harris or Donna Summer MacArthur Park
Paul McCartney Uncle Albert..."
Box Sets
Music Review December 12, 2008
by Austin Powell
"...The Power of Negative Thinking, an essential 4-CD, 81-song collection of JAMC's odds and ends, mirrors the Scottish misfits' evolution from the visceral, sweet 'n' sour beauty of 1985's landmark Psychocandy and the grim guitar bop of '87's Darklands to the drum-machine pulse of Automatic (1989), Honey's Dead (1992), and final breaking point, Munki (1998). As evidenced by abrasive readings of Leonard Cohen ("Tower of Song"), Prince ("Alphabet Street"), the Temptations ("My Girl"), and Elvis Presley ("Guitarman"), core components William and Jim Reid are rabid deconstructionists, exposing the underbelly of popular music..."
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