FRIDAY AUGUST 10th – ELVIS WEEK DAY 1 I woke up around 3:45am (on purpose) after about 4 or 5 hours of sleep. I left Cookeville just before 4:30am and headed toward Memphis in the dark and the rain. (I had driven 9 1/2 hours the previous day from Maryland.) Originally I had planned to stay in [continue reading]
Picking an ‘L’ Elvis topic for the A to Z Blogging Challenge as “Loving Arms” is my favorite Elvis song (along with Heartbreak Hotel) AND “Love Me” is probably my third or fourth favorite Elvis song. But in the end I HAD to go with Lisa Marie Presley, [continue reading]
Lisa Marie Presley gets better every time I see her. Always a great songwriter and singer, Lisa’s performances this weekend were a far cry from her shy performance in 2003 when I first saw her. When Lisa opened for Chris Isaak in support of her first album To Whom It May Concern, her mic was [continue reading]
In September during her stop in Memphis on her Storm and Grace Tour, Lisa Marie Presley performed in the Jungle Room at Graceland, the house where she grew up and where her dad recorded his last album Moody Blue. Today Yahoo Music released the performance on its site. Lisa performed “Over [continue reading]
I love Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis’ only child. True, I first became interested in her because of Elvis, but after hearing her music and listening to her interviews, I fell in love with Lisa for Lisa. 2002 was the first time I saw Lisa Marie Presley in person. She introduced her song Nobody [continue reading]
I really did not think I could have a better day with Lisa Marie Presley than I did June 15th when I went to two saw two of her shows on the same day – a free radio promotion show in Annapolis in the afternoon and then her regular show in Baltimore that night. I met Lisa, talked with her, got [continue reading]
June 15th will forever be known to me as Lisa Marie Presley Day, or LMP Day. I was lucky enough to see her perform twice in the same day and meet her. And because of Lisa, I met so many fantastic people. I started off my LMP Day in Annapolis at 11am. I arrived at Rams Head on Stage to find the [continue reading]
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