Country Side of Elvis [1999] (1999)

About this title: If you like your Elvis with a heavy dose of schmaltz, then this Australian-only release is right up your alley. It's 25 of Elvis' country-oriented recordings, with all of the early '50s sides for Sun and RCA deleted from the set. What's left are movie leftovers, album cuts, and B-sides from 1961 to near the end, all of them slickly produced, with most of them sporting a slick Nashville sound. Although the notes go into great detail about Elvis' country roots, this isn't the place to hear him as a hillbilly singer; go to his original Sun sides to hear the real Elvis, country boy at ... read more

Tracks:

1. Just Call Me Lonesome [Griffin]
2. Green, Green Grass of Home [Putman]
3. Faded Love [Wills/Wills]
4. It's a Matter of Time [Westlake]
5. There Goes My Everything [Frazier]
6. Wild in the Country [Creatore/Peretti/We]
7. Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues [OKeefe]
8. For the Good Times [Kristofferson]
9. I'm Movin' On [Snow]
10. It's a Sin [Rose/Turner]
11. What Now, What Next, Where To? [Robertson/Blair]
12. It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin' [Tillotson]
13. Help Me Make It Through the Night [Kristofferson]
14. Singing Tree [Owens/Solberg]
15. You Asked Me To [Jennings/Shaver]
16. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain [Rose]
17. Snowbird [MacLellan]
18. Fool [Sigman/Last]
19. Loving Arms [Jans]
20. Mr. Songman [Summer]
21. Fairytale [Pointer/Pointer]
22. Gentle on My Mind [Hartford]
23. I Will Be Home Again [Benjamin/Leveen/Sin]
24. If I'm a Fool (For Loving You) [Kesler]
25. You Don't Know Me [Walker/Arnold]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.