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Six Market Blvd. – Shake it Down:

12 August 2024 By in Music Tags: , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Flash in time band 6MB’s 2nd and final album, ‘Shake it Down’ is a Texas country rock album delivering a spiced-up studio album honed in the dives and bars between the concrete of Fort Worth, the college hangouts of Tarleton State, onto the stock yard sights and smells of Abilene.

Clayton Landua, frontman for the band says in a Billboard interview, “Shake It Down” is a mixture of styles, from the Seeger / Dylan vibe of “Stand,” as well as the 70s sounds of “The Painter” and “Say It.”

The band with two well received albums under their belt, the big time seemed close by, when Landua decided to leave the group in 2014 to try something on his own. The remaining members thought about carrying on but not much of nothing went into that future.

If you give the album a listen, and you should, during the 13th track song, ‘Hey Mr. Indian Man’, Josh Serrato, lead guitarist, breaks into Deep Purple’s famous ‘Smoke on Water’ riff for reasons unknown and unstated but it did bring a smile to the lips quickly spreading over to the cheeks with a slow scratch to the head.

Source: Six Market Blvd. by Messick, Lone Star Music Mag., 2024. 6MB Takes Final Bow by Josh Harville, 2014 JTAC. 615 Spotlight by Chuck Dauphin, 2013, Billboard. Graphic Shake it Down Album Cover, Vision Entertainment copyright.

Elvis

8 July 2024 By in Music Tags: , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis album was released 50 years ago on 8 July 1974 by RCA Victor. The recording was captured at a Mid-South Coliseum concert in Memphis, Tennessee 14 weeks earlier on the 20th of March.

The Memphis ‘concert’ included two shows each on the 16th and 17th with the actual recording occurring during the fifth show on the 20th. The five sold-out shows were estimated to have sold more than 60,000 tickets with some seating going for as much as $10.

In addition to the Memphis shows a ‘rehearsal’ concert was held in Richmond, Virgina on 18th of March in which the album Forty-Eight Hours to Memphis was recorded. The set lists for the Richmond and Memphis recordings were nearly identical.

Although the concert and subsequent album release were not in the same league as Elvis’ 68 Comeback Special, the Memphis album contained a truer representation of his career and his genre crossing-over appeal.

The album was certified gold, reaching number 2 on Billboard’s Country chart, number 40 on Billboard 200 and garnered another Grammy for Elvis for his rendition of the gospel song “How Great Thou Art”.

The original 1974 album left out the concert songs “Suspicious Minds” and “Polk Salad Annie” but were re-inserted back into the FTD Records 2004 re-issue of Live on Stage in Memphis. Sony’s 2014 40-year re-issue of the album includes the FTD Records 2004 re-issue on disc one plus also including the ‘rehearsal’ concert preformed at the Richmond (Viginia) Coliseum two days before the Memphis concert.

Source:  Sony Legacy Release by Troy Yeary, The Mystery Train Blog and Elvis Australia. Graphic:  Elvis at the Richmond Coliseum, 18 March 1974, Copyright FTD Records.