TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
374 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 77 ratings"Elvis is history," Carl Perkins once said, "and anytime anyone or anything becomes history, whether it be Pearl Harbor or Elvis, it will never go away. The world will never tire of his songs."
TCBCast is an unofficial fan podcast featuring co-hosts Gurdip Ladhar and Justin Gausman, along with regular guest co-hosts Ryan Droste and Bec Wyles, plus an array of Elvis fans and experts setting out to better understand that history, and those songs. Tackling topics from throughout Elvis's lifetime and beyond, TCBCast seeks to offer thoughtful, intelligent, heartfelt and honest discourse on Presley's career, his influences, the people who made his work possible, and the cultural phenomenon surrounding his iconography.
TCBCast is not associated with or endorsed by Graceland, Elvis Presley Enterprises, Authentic Brands Group or Sony.
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Episodes
TCBCast 323: Songs About Elvis (feat. Chris Jones)
June 26, 2024 13:49 - 2 hours - 79.6 MBJustin and Olivia are joined by guest host Chris Jones (former host of the wonderful "Hall of Songs" podcast, you can find him as @jonesca17 on social media) to explore the surprisingly heartfelt and thought-provoking world of songs that either reference or are about Elvis, explicitly or implicitly. Spanning a wide array of genres, eras and artists, each of us pick five of our favorites to examine the common themes that begin to surface like fame, commercialization, celebrity obsession, myth...
TCBCast 322: The Live Rarities We Love + "Memphis" Box Set Announcement
June 18, 2024 12:55 - 1 hour - 101 MBThis episode begins with a TCBCast-mini-style intro with Gurdip and Justin discussing the passing of singer-songwriter Mark James and the news of Sony's "Memphis" box set, out August 9, 2024. Then, Gurdip taps out and Bec taps in for a fun exploration of some of our favorite deep cut Elvis concert rarities - the songs he almost never pulled out, from ones done only once (like Oh Happy Day or Rubberneckin') to those done at best for maybe a handful of shows (Memphis Tennessee, anybody?) ...
TCBCast 321: Favorite Elvis Movie Songs
June 12, 2024 13:56 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBGurdip and Olivia sit down for a super fun discussion picking one song from each of Elvis' narrative films (from Love Me Tender through Change of Habit) from within the movie itself that they especially enjoy, not including those just on the soundtrack or recorded for but cut from the final film. They also discuss the title, cover design and release date for Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough's new book "From Here to the Great Unknown," set to release later this year and speculate on what...
TCBCast 320: Elvis's Best Singles (feat. Darin Evans)
June 05, 2024 15:18 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBSpecial guest Darin Evans joins Gurdip and Justin for a brief exploration of what each think were Elvis' best 5 singles, considering the strength of the A & B-sides, overall success and (naturally) personal taste. For Song of the Week, Darin piggybacks off Justin's choice of "Kissin Cousins No. 2" last week and goes for "Kissin' Cousins," the upbeat single from the 1964 movie which featured Elvis musically portraying two different characters within a single song. Then Justin explores the...
TCBCast 319: C'mon Everybody (1971) Album Review
May 28, 2024 14:56 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBBec crashes an episode with Gurdip and Justin covering the 1971 Camden "C'mon Everybody," a compilation collecting a handful of tracks that at the time of its release had previously only been available on the Extended Play soundtracks for Follow That Dream, Kid Galahad, Viva Las Vegas and Easy Come, Easy Go. It turns out to be one of the breeziest, enjoyable Camdens and the gang has a ton of fun digging into it. Also discussed are news items including the upcoming Guitar Man Sessions FTD, ...
TCBCast 318: Elvis '99: Looking Back at 1999's Releases
May 21, 2024 14:17 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBBec & Justin bask in some nostalgia for their days as younger Elvis fans at the turn of the 21st century, reflecting on the major mainstream BMG Elvis releases from 1999 and how those releases influenced the crew's perspectives on Elvis' creative journey. From period retrospectives "Suspicious Minds: The 1969 Anthology," "Sunrise," "The Home Recordings," "Burning Love" and "Tomorrow is A Long Time" to hits compilations like "Can't Help Falling in Love: The Hollywood Hits" and "Artist of the...
TCBCast 317: "Cento ragazze e un marinaio" - Girls! Girls! Girls! Review Pt. 2
May 14, 2024 13:46 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBRyan, Bec and Justin conclude their discussion on 1962's "Girls! Girls! Girls!" losing their minds just a little bit at the twists, turns and amount of songs about fishing in the back half of the movie, but have a ton of fun discussing such famous scenes as "Return to Sender," "Song of the Shrimp" and "The Walls Have Ears" as well as pondering the deleted sequence "I Don't Want To." Ryan has to bow out for Song of the Week, but Bec pushes forward with the movie songs theme, making a case ...
TCBCast 316: "Gumbo Ya-Ya": Girls! Girls! Girls! Review, Part 1
May 08, 2024 01:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBJustin, Ryan and Bec begin to unpack the 1962 Paramount rom-com "Girls! Girls! Girls!" starring Elvis, Laurel Goodwin, Stella Stevens, and Jeremy Slate, directed by Norman Taurog (his third Elvis picture) and written by Edward Anhalt from a story by Allan Weiss. It was filmed in Hawaii, but that's not where it was supposed to be set - and the last minute change (following the blowout success of "Blue Hawaii" at the box office just a few short months before filming) is clearly felt through...
TCBCast 315: New Live 1956 Audio Surfaces From Toledo Concert
April 30, 2024 14:47 - 31 minutes - 18.3 MBIt's not everyday that new Elvis audio from the 1950s surfaces, but this past week that very thing did happen, as European label Memphis Recording Service released newly discovered audio from Elvis's November 22, 1956, concert in Toledo, Ohio, recorded originally by local radio DJ Ron Ross. Subsequently, the original mono audio was also uploaded to YouTube by another fan who had sourced the audio himself as well. Gurdip and Justin break down the content itself, and contrast the YouTube up...
TCBCast 314: When Elvis Harmonized With Elvis
April 24, 2024 14:34 - 2 hours - 71.7 MBThis week Justin and Olivia are exploring the recordings (both final masters and alternate dubs that were considered) where Elvis sang with himself, starting from "I'm Yours" in the early 60s, working their way up through the very dense 1969 recordings, and well into the 1970s. There's both more than you'd think, and not enough! They ponder what sort of creative choices were made to lead Elvis to lay down these special vocals. It's a very unique angle (and frequently exquisite listening) fro...
TCBCast 313: The Elvis Songs We'd Erase
April 16, 2024 22:02 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBGurdip and Justin put their heads together for an interesting and provocative thought experiment: what Elvis songs would they pick if they had to remove 5 songs from each decade of his career? Would they just pick our least favorites - or consider the historical, social and cultural ramifications of each decision? Plus, are some periods of Elvis' career easier to prune than others? And then in the second part of the episode, Justin's joined by Olivia as they look at streaming data from a ...
TCBCast 312: "Speedway": The Soundtrack Album Review
April 09, 2024 14:09 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBGurdip returns this week for a lively discussion about the soundtrack to Elvis' 1968 film "Speedway," which co-starred Nancy Sinatra, who features on two tracks, making her one of the few artists to ever appear on an album with Elvis during his lifetime. The guys dig a bit into the recording sessions (which, minus Sinatra's contributions, were primarily done at MGM's soundstage instead of at RCA Studio B as usual) and how this move affected the production quality of the album, the poor cho...
TCBCast 311: Elvis - The King of... "Fools"?
April 01, 2024 13:30 - 2 hours - 78 MBJustin is joined on this episode by longtime guest and inquisitive mind Olivia Murphy-Rogers, who Gurdip, Ryan, Bec & Justin are pleased to announce is joining the TCBCast crew!! Justin and Olivia explore the concept of the "fool" in Elvis' music - song titles, lyrics, and at critical moments in his life from his childhood in Tupelo to his final television special. Justin continues the theme with his Song of the Week, Elvis' 1971 version of "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" and ...
TCBCast 310: The Nashville 1970 Sessions, Part 2
March 28, 2024 19:45 - 2 hours - 81.9 MBJustin and Bec pull out all the stops for a thorough exploration of the remaining Nashville studio sessions from 1970: June 6, 7 & 8 as well as the brief September 22, 1970, session where Elvis laid down four more tracks to polish off "Elvis Country" and prepare a single. As they begin to sense the material's strength (and Elvis' interest) waning, they ponder whether the "marathon" approach may have done more harm than good in the long run. There are still numerous highs, like much of the ma...
TCBCast 309: The TCBCast Takeover (feat. John Michael Heath)
March 20, 2024 14:56 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBGurdip's on vacation and between day jobs and personal emergencies, timing isn't lining up just yet Part 2 of the Nashville sessions, so Bec and Justin got together for a quick spur of the moment episode and managed to rope in John Michael Heath of EAP Society for a loose Elvis discussion among the three. The team discusses John & his father's Elvis artifacts in their collection, favorite Elvis movies, the 1969 American Sound Sessions and the 1970 Nashville Marathon both come up, as well as ...
TCBCast 308: The Nashville 1970 Sessions, Part 1
March 13, 2024 16:03 - 2 hours - 80.3 MBJustin and Bec explore Elvis' "marathon" sessions from June 1970, starting with laying the groundwork for the return to Nashville's RCA Studio B, pondering why Elvis may not have chosen to return to Chips Moman's American Sound in Memphis. Instead Elvis is joined this time by a new band led by his live guitarist James Burton but otherwise comprised largely of country-soul players who had worked alongside producer Felton Jarvis in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, including Chip Young, Jerry Carrigan,...
TCBCast 307: Elvis Blue (1983) (feat. Rabia)
March 05, 2024 16:08 - 2 hours - 91.8 MBYou're about to be taken on a journey... Justin is joined by Rabia of Suddenly: A Frank Sinatra Podcast to tackle Australia's near-exclusive 1983 compilation "Elvis Blue" (also released in Japan & South Africa) which compiles all 19 songs Elvis released during his lifetime with the word "blue" in the title. This strange collection of songs that, when initially described, sounds like a novelty cash-in, ends up becoming a compelling, thoughtful alternate exploration of the span of Elvis' e...
TCBCast 306: Exploring Elvis Bootlegs
February 27, 2024 15:03 - 2 hours - 78.9 MBRyan returns this week to look back on his time and findings exploring the world of Elvis bootlegs, from soundboards and audience recordings to studio material and fan-made spliced takes. Justin takes the opportunity to loosely discuss some of the history of Elvis bootlegs and try to contextualize where Elvis bootlegs have fit within the larger rock bootleg scene, and the guys ponder whether there is even a future for Elvis bootlegs to offer anything new or interesting now that A) the offic...
TCBCast 305: Elvis's Worst Album? Elvis Sings for Children... and Grown-Ups Too!
February 20, 2024 15:48 - 1 hour - 48.3 MBOh yeah, we went there. Gurdip & Justin sit down with the 1978 compilation album, intended for children but so often cited by Elvis fans who were around at the time as one of the worst and most misguided projects Colonel Tom Parker ever spearheaded... but is it, really?! Closer examination may be necessary! (Note: the guys ponder why the presence of an elephant in the artwork; Bec reached out after the fact and reminded us that Colonel Parker's favorite animal was, in fact, the elephant!) ...
TCBCast 304: Blue Suede Shoes: The History, The Fashion, The Song
February 14, 2024 14:42 - 2 hours - 69.9 MBOne for the money, two for the show, three to get ready... For our main topic this week, Justin's extensive Song of the Week takes priority, as the guys dig into the history of "Blue Suede Shoes," originally written and recorded by Carl Perkins and famously associated with Elvis throughout his career and beyond. What was Carl tapping into when he wrote it in 1955, why did it have such appeal, and has it been overplayed? Numerous versions by both Perkins and Elvis over the years are covered...
TCBCast 303: Our Favorite Elvis Love Songs
February 06, 2024 15:08 - 1 hour - 51 MBValentine's Day's coming up soon, so Justin and Bec decided to round up their favorite Elvis songs about love and relationships, and Bec even wrangled Gurdip and Ryan's lists from them as well. It's a total gush-fest over some of the most expressive and memorable romantic recordings Elvis ever made. For Song of the Week, Bec stays on theme, picking the more downbeat "Something Blue" from the album "Pot Luck" while Justin spotlights "Tell Me Why," one of Elvis' more underrated and obscure ...
TCBCast Bonus - "Honeymoon in Vegas" (1992) Commentary
January 30, 2024 15:23 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBThe TCBCast gang is off for one week, but we've got something special from the archives: one of our earliest previously Patreon-exclusive unofficial commentaries, for the 1992 heavily-Elvis-inspired rom-com "Honeymoon in Vegas" starring Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker and James Caan, written & directed by Andrew Bergman (Blazing Saddles, The Freshman) with a soundtrack jam-packed with covers of Elvis songs and the movie itself containing numerous original Elvis recordings as well. Gurdi...
TCBCast 302: March 1972 Sessions + Standing Room Only
January 23, 2024 14:16 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBJustin and Bec take a closer listen to Elvis' sessions from March 1972 at RCA Studio C in Hollywood, which gave us iconic hits like "Burning Love," "Always on My Mind" and "Separate Ways" along with several cuts relegated to B-sides and later LPs. They also ponder what might have been, looking at the cancelled 1972 album "Standing Room Only," that would have been largely comprised of this studio material mixed with live tracks from a Vegas engagement earlier that year. Bec is in the hotse...
TCBCast 301: Elvis: A Canadian Tribute (1978) Album Review
January 16, 2024 16:19 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBGurdip & Justin ring in 2024 by looking at one of the earliest posthumous albums from 1978, "A Canadian Tribute," created to celebrate Elvis' 1957 tour of Canada and the songs Elvis recorded that have Canadian connections. Gurdip, as our resident Canadian, had this one in his youth so the guys decided to see if it holds up as well as it did back in the day. The guys also discuss the announcement of Lisa Marie's new book, coming this October completed by Riley Keough, additional informati...
TCBCast 300: Sofia Coppola's "Priscilla" - The TCBCast Review
January 08, 2024 21:36 - 2 hours - 91.5 MBMarking Elvis Presley's 89th birthday (and 6 years and 300 episodes of TCBCast), Justin, Gurdip, Ryan and Bec gather to give their thoughts on writer-director Sofia Coppola's adaptation of Priscilla Presley's autobiography. The gang dig in and ponder whether it's any better or offers anything more than the other previous depictions of the Elvis & Priscilla story: e.g. the 1988 TV adaptation, the 2005 CBS miniseries, the handful of scenes in Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis"... but ultimately pitting it...
TCBCast 299 and 1/2: Now In Person FTD Talk (feat. John Michael Heath)
January 02, 2024 06:40 - 57 minutes - 33.1 MBHappy New Year!! Justin is out sick so episode 300 is delayed! So what is this? Well if you add up all the various bonus episodes along the way we've well blown past 300 long ago anyway so the number's arbitrary, so give us this weird one! Gurdip is joined by John Michael Heath from EAP Society to briefly discuss news and the recent "Elvis: Now In Person 1972" FTD 4-CD set and book by David English and Pal Granlund, as well as to bond over gospel and doo-wop. Plus - a round of Elvis Trivia...
TCBCast 299: A Very Clambake Christmas 2023: Who Needs Clambake?
December 22, 2023 14:39 - 4 hours - 144 MBLike socks. underwear and an ugly sweater from a relative you never see, you didn't ask for it but you're getting it anyway. The biggest gathering of guests on a single episode of TCBCast ever convene for the strangest of holiday events: Clambake. We know exactly what you're thinking, but it turns out there's SO MUCH MORE we didn't talk about last year, there's less overlap than you might expect in terms of things to learn about 1967's "Clambake." We even managed to squeeze a Song of the ...
TCBCast 298: Long Legged Girl (with the Silver Bells on)
December 19, 2023 14:21 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBGurdip & Justin react to recent Elvis news, including Elvis' current charting holiday hits, the release of streaming data for "Agent Elvis" on Netflix for the first half of 2023, and Baz Luhrmann's statements that he intends to eventually, "one day" create an episodic version of his "Elvis" film. They guys also reflect on both the year 2023 for TCBCast, and the last six years of the show. For Song of the Week, Gurdip selects "Long Legged Girl (With the Short Dress On)" from 1967's "Doubl...
TCBCast 297: Elvis vs Spankox - ReVersions, ReMixes and Christmas Remixes
December 12, 2023 15:27 - 2 hours - 69.2 MBThis week, Gurdip and Justin finally do an episode they've been threatening to do for some time now, exploring the work of Italian DJ Agostino Carollo, aka "Spankox," who in the late 00s began remixing Elvis songs that had fallen into the European public domain and ended up getting the endorsement of EPE/Graceland for his first two albums, making them technically official releases... an endorsement subsequently lost for the third, holiday-themed project. The guys cover those first three ...
TCBCast 296: Favorite Filmed Live Elvis Performances
December 05, 2023 18:23 - 2 hours - 70.9 MBRyan and Bec take the reins this week for a fun-filled episode as both dig into their favorite Elvis performances that were professionally filmed, from TV appearances, network specials & documentary films. Ryan also gives his thoughts on the Christmas at Graceland NBC special, and both react to news from Baz Luhrmann about his future Elvis-related projects. For Song of the Week, Bec explores the history behind "I Believe in the Man in the Sky" from the "His Hand in Mine" album, while Mr. ...
TCBCast Bonus: Christmas at Graceland (2023 NBC Special) Impressions
December 01, 2023 21:45 - 51 minutes - 30.2 MBGurdip & Justin discuss their thoughts on the NBC special "Christmas at Graceland," which aired Wednesday, November 29, 2023, hosted by Riley Keough and featuring musical acts including Lainey Wilson, Lana Del Rey, Kane Brown, Alanis Morrisette, Post Malone, The War and Treaty, John Legend and Kacey Musgraves as well as a handful of surprise cameos.
TCBCast 295: Ranking Elvis' Movie Title Songs (feat. Darin Evans)
November 28, 2023 15:54 - 2 hours - 81.5 MBGurdip is out unexpectedly so special guest Darin Evans joins Justin once again, this time for a loose, lighthearted (and unexpectedly beefy) ranking of all of the Elvis movie title songs, from Love Me Tender to Change of Habit; weighing the songs themselves, how they're used in their respective movies, and how well they represent the films they're from. The team also react to listener feedback regarding the recent Elvis and Country Music miniseries as well as recent news including the Ch...
TCBCast 294: "Hall of Elvis": Elvis' Hall of Fame Inductions & Grammys (feat. Chris Jones of Hall of Songs Podcast)
November 21, 2023 19:17 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBOn this episode, Justin is once again joined by Chris Jones, co-host of the Hall of Songs podcast (HallofSongs.com), for a discussion on Elvis' various Grammy awards nominations and wins as well as how he fared in other music industry award ceremonies and briefly touching on which major genre Halls of Fame Elvis has been inducted into. With Chris' experience on their show having to nominate the best songs of given years, the guys have a ton of fun digging into what else was getting nominated...
TCBCast 293 - The "Guitar Man" Sessions: September '67 & January '68
November 14, 2023 16:11 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBGurdip and Justin dig into the September 1967 and January 1968 sessions that brought country singer-songwriter Jerry Reed into Elvis' circle for a brief moment, until business interests got in the way. Through spread out across various singles, soundtracks as bonus tracks, and budget compilations, these sessions collectively show Elvis already embracing material that returns him to his blues and country roots, leading him to his comeback. Justin also provides some context on Jerry Reed's ear...
TCBCast 292: News & SotW Since 3/4 Hosts Couldn't Get To "Priscilla" Screenings Last Weekend
November 07, 2023 14:39 - 1 hour - 37.6 MBGurdip & Justin react to the virtual holiday duets with Pentatonix and Kane Brown released within the last week or so, briefly discuss the leaks of emails sent from Lisa Marie to Sofia Coppola, and dig into Songs of the Week. Gurdip selects the bubbly "It's A Wonderful World" from 1964's "Roustabout" while Justin goes deep on the obscure 1960 Elvis home recording "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" - not just songwriter Leon Rene and the famous hit version by the Ink Spots, but al...
TCBCast 291: Elvis and Country Music, Part 6: Elvis' Country Legacy
October 30, 2023 22:35 - 2 hours - 76.8 MBIn the finale to the epic Elvis and country music miniseries, Justin and guest host Garrett Cash briskly fly over nearly four and a half decades of time, tracing Elvis' impact and influence on country music, starting with several of the tributes paid to him immediately following his death and his posthumous country hits, including the success of the 1981 "Guitar Man" country overdub project and its proposed follow-up, cut short by the untimely passing of producer Felton Jarvis. They follow...
TCBCast 290: Elvis and Country Music, Part 5: "I've Always Been Country"
October 25, 2023 02:45 - 2 hours - 86.4 MBPart 5 of the Elvis and Country Music miniseries brings the curtain down on the 1970s. Justin and Garrett Cash begin by discussing the state of pop music and country-pop crossovers in the '70s and the history of Country Music Month before stopping off at Stax Studios in Memphis as Elvis lays down the tracks that would comprise the albums "Raised on Rock," "Good Times" and "Promised Land" and those accompanying albums' singles. 1974 is a pit stop to discuss the country industry backlash to ...
TCBCast Bonus: "Priscilla" Trailer #2 Review & Reaction to Baz Luhrmann TTWII/EOT News
October 23, 2023 18:09 - 45 minutes - 26.3 MBFYI - not "new" - we had some sort of technical hiccup we only just noticed that seemed to have unpublished the except on YouTube and Patreon, just making sure it's reposted! Gurdip, Justin, Ryan and Bec are back together for the first time since January; the gang is reacting not only to the exciting news from Baz Luhrmann confirming via Instagram that he is in fact still working on a project involving officially unreleased TTWII & EOT footage, but also to the new trailer for Sofia Coppol...
Remembering Jaime Kay ~ The Lost Jungle Room/TCBCast Episode
October 19, 2023 18:01 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBRemembering our friend Jaime Kay, host of The Jungle Room Podcast and recurring TCBCast guest. We reflect as best we can on her passing and her impact on the Elvis community, then we're grateful to be able to share with you one last gift from Jaime Kay: the 2019 crossover episode of the Jungle Room when we first joined her on her show, an episode otherwise now completely unavailable and inaccessible online, restored from a lucky backup of the original raw audio.
TCBCast 289: Elvis and Country Music, Part 4: Tennessee, Nevada, Hawaii, 1969-1973: Elvis' Country "Trilogy"
October 17, 2023 14:58 - 3 hours - 111 MBGuest host Garrett Cash and Justin begin Part 4 of Elvis and Country Music journey right where they left off: Elvis’ iconic 1969 sessions at Memphis producer Chips Moman’s American Sound, which provide Elvis his first country hits – as the industry considered them – in a decade. They then trace Elvis’ path from Las Vegas, where he brings together the finest country-rock band ever assembled in the TCB Band, back to Nashville where he not only embraces the “Countrypolitan” evolution of the Nas...
TCBCast 288: Elvis and Country Music, Part 3: The "Country Boy" Embraces the Nashville Sound of the 1960s
October 10, 2023 14:24 - 2 hours - 97.2 MBGarrett Cash rejoins Justin for Part 3 of the epic Elvis and Country Music saga as they start by breaking down the Nashville Sound, the members of the Nashville A-Team and the state of country music in the early 60s as the establishment puts up artificial barriers in an attempt to shun Elvis Presley and his irreversible influence. Then, Elvis arrives home from the military and we find him both fully embracing, and influencing, the evolution of the Nashville Sound through the early 1960s. T...
TCBCast 287: Elvis and Country Music Part 2: The Hillbilly Cat Changes Country Forever
October 03, 2023 14:36 - 2 hours - 70.3 MBPart 2 of the Elvis and Country Music saga picks up right where Justin and guest host Garrett Cash left off, with a deconstruction of both sides of Elvis' first Sun single. Elvis's country career is traced through his time at Sun and on the Louisiana Hayride, dedicating time to sidebar the realities of how flawed the way we discuss and understand country music as a genre during this period will always be due to the historical omission of the countless non-white artists who loved performing c...
TCBCast 286: Elvis Presley and Country Music, Part 1: Elvis' Country Music Roots (Are More Complex Than You Think)
September 26, 2023 15:01 - 2 hours - 88.3 MBThe epic saga begins. Music aficionado Garrett Cash joins Justin for the first part of a sweeping miniseries on Elvis Presley's lifelong, intertwined history with country music. We begin with the complex web of myriad influences that paved the way for rock and roll, and we start by treating the history of the genre not as strictly "hillbilly music" but as part of a vital continuum of American music that has always, in practice, blurred social, racial and class lines, encompassing blues, pop,...
TCBCast 285: 50 Million Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong Album Review
September 20, 2023 14:18 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBGurdip and Bec join forces to gush over Bec's very first Elvis album, Elvis' Golden Records, Volume 2, aka 50 Million Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong. Encapsulating singles released between 1957-1959, this iconic album captures the Elvis of the 50s at perhaps his very best, accompanied on many tracks by more members of the Nashville A-Team. For Song of the Week, Justin tags in for a brief discussion on the obscure song "The Titles Tell," recorded originally by Elvis' Memphis friend Barbara Pittm...
TCBCast 284: "TCB Discussions" (feat. Mal)
September 13, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBGurdip is back! The guys discuss the latest FTD releases, early reviews of "Priscilla" and listener feedback before Justin is joined for a brief Elvis chat by young Elvis fan Mal, of TCB Discussions (instagram.com/tcbdiscussions), who has been posting and blogging about Elvis, his career, his life and his influences. It's a very loose talk, but Justin picks her brain on how she became an Elvis fan during the height of pandemic lockdowns, and her journey as a fan these past couple years. You ...
TCBCast 283: If I Can Dream with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (feat. Olivia Murphy-Rogers)
September 05, 2023 21:02 - 2 hours - 80.7 MBAt the request of (and joined by!) previous TCBCast guest (and fellow Patreon supporter) Olivia Murphy-Rogers, we look back at the #1 UK & Australia album, which is now 8 years old as of this recording, along with the bonus tracks from the expanded deluxe version of the album, to see if it has held up. Bec also joins Justin and Olivia, wanting to make sure someone was around to stick up for one of her all-time favorites, bonus track "What Now My Love." Justin briefly tackles the title the...
TCBCast 282: Our Top 11 Favorite "Lonely/Lonesome/Alone" Elvis Songs
August 29, 2023 14:13 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBJustin and Bec go a little experimental and offbeat this week, deciding to formally and "scientifically" rank 11 of Elvis' home, studio and live performances which have "lonely," "lonesome" and "alone" in the title, as well as loosely exploring how Elvis is so frequently linked to the concept of loneliness - and some of the things Elvis himself had to say about feeling alone. It's been a bit since we've had a full-on, proper Song of the Week, so the hosts wipe the dust off as Bec brings th...
TCBCast 281: "Lonely Man" (Wild in the Country Review, Part 2)
August 22, 2023 21:26 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBPart 2 of the TCBCast gang's review of Elvis' 1961 movie for 20th Century FOX, "Wild in the Country," goes "wildly" off the rails as the "High Tension" and drama of the weighty back half is undercut by some giggle fits. Justin, Ryan and Bec also discuss where the known deleted songs "Lonely Man" and "Forget Me Never" would have likely slotted into the script, and offer their thoughts on the choice to change the much more downbeat ending after test audiences disapproved of the original ending...
TCBCast 280: Elvis' Best Movie? The Lost Country (Wild in the Country Review, Part 1)
August 15, 2023 14:21 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBRyan reports in on his recent trip to Graceland and Memphis, Bec gives her initial impressions of the new documentary "Reinventing Elvis: The '68 Comeback Special" (which releases today, August 15, on Paramount Plus in the US) and the gang begins to dig into the first part of 1961 drama "Wild in the Country," starring Elvis, Tuesday Weld, Hope Lange, Millie Perkins, John Ireland, Gary Lockwood and a highly publicized cameo by Olympic athlete and actor Rafer Johnson. Wildly underperforming ...
TCBCast 279: Our Least Favorite Elvis Songs, Volume 3
August 08, 2023 16:37 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBBec joins Justin for a very loose, silly, and not-remotely-serious discussion about some of our least favorite Elvis songs and performances. Not "the worst," just some of the ones that don't hit us in quite the same way they might hit everyone else. The subject is so spirited that there are both giggle fits and strong disagreements! For Song of the Week, Justin revisits one of the songs he featured on his very first "least favorite" list, and makes amends with "Golden Coins" from the "Haru...