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Submitted to Cashbox Canada by Sandy Graham
Credit: www.lisamariepresley.com
RCA/Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, has released Elvis Presley - 'Where No One Stands Alone, a new Elvis album celebrating the artist's everlasting love of gospel music.
Produced by Joel Weinshanker, Lisa Marie Presley and Andy Childs, Elvis Presley – ‘Where No One Stands Alone’ introduces newly-recorded instrumentation and backing vocal contributions from music legends who'd performed on-stage and/or in-the-studio with Elvis. It also includes a re-imagined duet with Elvis and his daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, on the album’s title track and spiritual touchstone.
"It was a very powerful and moving experience to sing with my father," said Lisa Marie, "The lyrics speak to me and touch my soul. I’m certain that the lyrics spoke to my father in much the same way."
Watch ‘Where No One Stands Alone’ here:
https://youtu.be/RaRaUjzD-as
Album Producers Joel Weinshanker, Lisa Marie Presley and Andy ChildsBackground vocalists on the album include: Darlene Love (who first sang with Elvis on his 1968 NBC television special); Dr. Cissy Houston (who, with The Sweet Inspirations, sang with Elvis on-stage beginning in 1969); Terry Blackwood, Armond Morales and Jim Murray (members of The Imperials, who sang on Elvis' How Great Thou Art – with the title song winning the 1967 Grammy for Best Sacred Performance); and Donnie Sumner, Bill Baize, Ed Hill and Larry Strickland (members of Presley's longtime backup group, The Stamps).
Cashbox caught up with Andy Childs (singer/songwriter in his own right) the music producer of Weinshanker at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, to get a personal interview about this heartfelt and amazing musical offering. “Joel came to me about producing this project over a year ago, with the idea of taking isolated vocals of Elvis and creating new tracks around them, adding the duet of Lisa Marie with her legendary father. It started with my request to have Sony send me some of the alternate tracks to see what we could hear, with sometimes 7-8 alternate takes, which for some reason were not used and the standard with Elvis was that they used later takes from the sessions. Having all this music of Elvis was one thing, but when I sat alone in my studio and listened to the tracks, it was bittersweet because the alternate tracks also included...
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