Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)
A country-themed album recorded during five days in June 1970.
Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) is the thirteenth studio album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records in January 1971. It reached number 12 on the Billboard 200 and number six in the United Kingdom, selling over one million copies worldwide. The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on December 1, 1977.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- Elvis Presley
- Released
- January 7, 1971
- Recorded
- June 4–8 and September 22, 1970
- Studio
- RCA Studio B (Nashville)
- Genre
- Country
- Length
- 38:49
- Label
- RCA Victor
- Producer
- Felton Jarvis
Facts from the source article.
Track listing
Side one
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snowbird | Gene MacLellan | 2:17 |
| 2 | Tomorrow Never Comes | Johnny Bond, Ernest Tubb | 4:07 |
| 3 | Little Cabin on the Hill | Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt | 1:58 |
| 4 | Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On | Dave "Curlee" Williams, Sunny David | 3:10 |
| 5 | Funny How Time Slips Away | Willie Nelson | 4:32 |
| 6 | I Really Don't Want to Know | Howard Barnes, Don Robertson | 2:59 |
Side two
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There Goes My Everything | Dallas Frazier | 3:10 |
| 2 | It's Your Baby, You Rock It | Shirl Milete, Nora Fowler | 3:04 |
| 3 | The Fool | Naomi Ford, Lee Hazlewood | 2:34 |
| 4 | Faded Love | Bob Wills, Johnnie Lee Wills | 3:19 |
| 5 | I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water | Joe Babcock | 3:54 |
| 6 | Make the World Go Away | Hank Cochran | 3:46 |
Track listing from the source article.
Did You Know?
- The sleeve image is a colourised photograph of Elvis as an infant, with an inset of the original shot of the artist flanked by his parents Vernon and Gladys Presley.
- The album's cover anticipated by several decades the rap fashion of musicians using their baby pictures for album covers.
- After this album, Presley returned to his usual practice of recording a seemingly random batch of songs on each trip to the recording studio.
Content
The album's material came from five days of recording sessions in June 1970 that produced 35 usable tracks. Presley recorded each track live, with his vocal part captured in the same take as the band. Eight tracks from these sessions had been released two months earlier on the That's the Way It Is album. During the sessions, Presley and producer Felton Jarvis decided to record additional country songs to create a full album of country material. Two more tracks were recorded in September: "Snowbird" and a one-take version of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." The album represents nearly every style of country music, including bluegrass, honky tonk, Western swing, rockabilly, countrypolitan, and the nascent outlaw movement. Snippets of "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago" serve as bridges between tracks.
Reissues
A compact disc reissue on June 14, 2004, included six bonus tracks from the same sessions, three of which had previously appeared on the Love Letters from Elvis LP. The other bonus tracks were the B-side "Where Did They Go, Lord?" and the unabridged version of "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago." In 2008, the Follow That Dream label issued a two-disc edition with the original album and numerous alternate takes. A two-CD "Legacy Edition" set announced in late 2011 paired Elvis Country with the Love Letters LP, drawing criticism from fans who preferred rarities from the Elvis Country sessions. An unreleased Quadraphonic version is known to exist.
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