After years of recording mediocre soundtracks, Elvis' management loosened their reigns on him setting him up to work with Chips Moman at Memphis' American Sound Studios to record new material. This was Elvis' long-overdue return to making real music. And what a return it was! The new environment and material seemed to refresh Elvis' creative spirit and he delivered some of the best performances of his career! The sessions continued the comeback started by the 1968 TV special and produced several big hits: "In The Ghetto", "Suspicious Minds", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Kentucky Rain". The second Cd includes some demos and alternate takes. All-in-all it is an excellent collection, however, casual fans would probably be better off to save a few bucks and buy the "From Elvis in Memphis" CD instead of this 2 CD set. It contains most of the better tracks here and all the hits.

Inexplicably, after the success of these recordings Elvis would never work with Chips Moman again nor be given this amount of creative freedom and quality material.