Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack)

Elvis Presley: The Searcher (Original Soundtrack) is de muzikale metgezel van een tweedelige, drie uur durende HBO documentaire over het fenomeen Elvis Presley, van de hand van Emmy -en Grammy Award winnaar Thom Zimny. In de film staat de ontwikkeling van zijn vroege blues- en country roots tot aan zijn legendarische opnamesessies in de Jungle Room op Graceland in 1976 centraal.




De kern van de soundtrack bestaat uit 18 essentiële Elvis Presley hits (“Heartbreak Hotel,” “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”), krachtige vocalen (“That’s All Right,” “Tomorrow Is a Long Time,” “Trouble/Guitar Man”) en zeldzame uitvoeringen van nummers die mijlpalen voor hem betekenden als artiest (“Suspicious Minds,” “Separate Ways”).

Naast deze CD versie is de soundtrack ook beschikbaar op LP en als 3CD Deluxe Box Set met nog eens 37 Elvis tracks, een extra disc met vele extra's en een 40 pagina’s tellend hardcover boekwerk.

"The soundtrack was in my mind from the beginning. I wasn't just making a film, I was thinking about the collection of recordings I would gather for a person who saw the film, who wanted to complete the experience, just as I always had. Thankfully, our friends at Sony gave me and the Searcher team the chance to create this collection. It's been in my mind for years now. To me, this collection is part of the film." - Thom Zimny

"So, in this collection, one gets not a Greatest Hits package but a song-by-song, curated portrait of an artist who very consistently and courageously gave himself to his performances, as if in the giving he might find some missing part of himself. The truth in his voice, in the end, was the sound of a searcher. Along the way, he built a catalogue as deep as any found in the broad and beautiful vistas of American music." - Warren Zanes

"You hear performers in the thrall of the beauty of invention, not knowing quite where they're going to go, not knowing exactly what they're doing”... “Just discovering and doing it literally as the music is being played.... You're out on the frontier and it's a very pristine and exciting place to be." - Bruce Springsteen

"You know, God bless him. He was a light for all of us. We all owe him for going first into battle. He had no road map and he forged a path of what to do and what not to do. And we shouldn't make the mistake of writing off a great artist because of all the clatter that came later. We should dwell in what he did that was so beautiful and everlasting, which was that great, great music." - Tom Petty

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