Description
Imagining the fabled day in Memphis's Sun Studio in 1956 when label alum Elvis Presley dropped in on a Carl Perkins recording session, while Johnny Cash and a just-signed Jerry Lee Lewis (reckless, ridiculously good Levi Kreis) happened to be on hand, this rockabilly Chautauqua deftly demonstrates what made rock & roll frightening to postwar, mashed-potato America. To ears trained on the dulcet harmonies of Your Hit Parade, the noise played here makes Sun's artists sound like the four horsemen of the apocalypse. In this acoustically expert re-creation—blessedly light on condescending narration—the jukebox musical genre feels electrifying.—Christopher Piatt
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