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Title: Wasted Talent !
Review: It is clear from listening to these recording,especially the ones made in the sixties,how astray Elvis' vision of who he was in the recording studio, had gone. Only in his gospel work do we hear the close harmonies that are evident on a lot of the songs recorded here (again,most dramatically from the 60's). Judging by what he recorded at home, and what he recorded for public consumption, the damage done to his career by the B movies becomes much clearer.For example,"Tumblin' Tumbleweeds",of all things, has a grace and beauty to it that Elvis rarely bothered to try to achieve at this time in the studio. If Elvis would have been truer to his musical roots, and adamant about recording what he loved, he would have never needed a "68 Comeback", because he would have never left.
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