The King: Before there was Lebron, there was Elvis
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Jul 18, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:50:00

Elvis left two legacies. Musically, he pulled several American musical traditions out of the shadows, braided them together, and made them mainstream. Personally, he created a far darker template for the way a musical celebrity could be devoured by the very fame he avidly sought.

Recorded live in front of an audience — long before the pandemic — as part of ha.com/watkinson-school-presents-the-eighth-season-of-freshly-squeezed-with-colin-mcenroe/">Colin’s Freshly Squeezed series at Watkinson School, an hour about the artist who defined the birth of rock and roll and was the genre’s first superstar.

GUESTS:

  • Jim Chapdelaine: Guitar and vocals
  • Latanya Farrell: Vocals
  • Steve Metcalf: Piano and vocals

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