TRYING TO GET TO YOU - THE BEST OF 60's ELVIS

Without a doubt this is one of the most raw, no-nonsense and back to basics tunes which ELVIS PRESLEY come up with for his great comeback in the late 1960's, dressed in black leather instead of silk pants and blue suede shoes.

It had been eight years in 1968 since Elvis had performed live on stage, after spending, or many would say wasting the 1960's holed up in Hawaii making a string of critically panned movies which even made the laidback and freewheeling Elvis look as awkward most of the time as a lone guy at a pub with one thumb in his pocket.

Like just about every song Elvis ever sung, TRYING TO GET TO YOU was a cover of something that someone else wrote, but his re-invention of this ancient Delta pick blues standard was Elvis at his comical best, and a return to the glory days of when he was churning out genre shattering rock'n'roll like JAILHOUSE ROCK and other blues epics like RECONSIDER BABY.

The comeback concerts in Las Vegas in 1968 were the beginning of a long and all too often artistically nondescript residency in the casino capital of the world for the one time king of rock'n'roll, despite the occasional blues blast from the past, like his cover of STEAMROLLER BLUES, and of course BURNING LOVE, the 70's for Elvis were sadly more memorable for his flared white pants than the bulk of his musical output.