Straight Arrow release "The King In The City of Six Flags"

[JohanD]

Looks like the topic of this release is gone, so here it is again,with my remarks underneath.
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Wednesday, June 20 tour opening, Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, AL.
Legendary label Straight Arrow (established in 2005) is back with its first 2024 release of Elvis tour opening show in Mobile, Alabama, June 20, 1973. The CD is titled “The King in The City of Six Flags” (SA/SP 2024-71-02). Every tour opening concert, was a special one, and this show is not an exception. Compared with the previous April tour, Elvis was really full of enthusiasm, in great voice and fantastic mood. These June / July 73 shows are definitely best of the year! There is no need to describe every great performance of this evening but two of them stand out: fantastic versions of “How Great Thou Art” and “An American Trilogy.”
The Mobile, June 20th, 1973, 8:30pm tour opening show is previously unreleased until now! This show was not available in acceptable sound previously. Our release has been taken directly from the 24bit digital transfer made in December 2010, of the previously unreleased original audience-recorded cassette. This concert was recorded by Elvis fan, Bob Cleveland, from the USA. Every second was faithfully enhanced to achieve the optimal listening experience. The sound has been remastered to the correct speed. If you have enjoyed our previous 1973 CDs, we believe that you will love this one as well.
Ask your local CD vendor for teasers!
Presented in the usual Straight Arrow fashion with the top notch digipack including collection of the photos of Elvis June 1973 tour and review from local Mobile Press, this new release is the beauty that you must not miss!>
The Straight Arrow team is always looking for new, unreleased audience-taped shows and for improved versions of the previously released recordings. If you have such unique tapes, even damaged or broken ones, do not hesitate to contact us through your local dealer. We would like to thanks to those who have supplied them in last couple of years! Note: although Mobile is still called „The City Of Six Flags,“ in last couple of years there are disgraceful attempts to re-write the history and remove Confederation flag from the official city seal. We hope that it will not happen.
Tracklist:
01. Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra - 02. C. C. Rider - 03. I Got A Woman / Amen - 04. Love Me Tender (with false start) - 05. Steamroller Blues - 06. You Gave Me A Mountain - 07. Love Me - 08. Blue Suede Shoes - 09. Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On / Mama Don’t Dance / Shake Rattle And Roll / Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On - 10. I’m Leavin’ - 11. How Great Thou Art (with reprise) - 12. Hound Dog - 13. Fever - 14. What Now My Love - 15. Suspicious Minds - 16. Introductions of singers, musicians, orchestra - 17. I’ll Remember You - 18. I Can’t Stop Loving You - 19. An American Trilogy - 20. A Big Hunk Of Love - 21. Can’t Help Falling In Love - 22. Closing Vamp / Announcements.
All tracks recorded live from audience on June 20th, 1973 tour opening show
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Listened to it today, not the best sound ever, but still very listenable, much better then the cdr we have.
The artwork is not the best, i mean, a blurry pic on the front, not that good elswhere too... there is even a credit to the "designer".
But the most important thing is the show, and that's a very good one!
Elvis is in good spirits, delivers a fine performance and proves he is the king.
Sure, we know the show by the cdr, we knew that it was good, but to hear it in much better quality, is a great addition to the audience recorded collection;
With this release Straight arrow is back with a good sounding, classy show... but i love to see them back again for the design with NighRider (Chris Middleton), wich would upgrade the whole package.

[Rusty Wells 2]

I knew this concert for quite some time, but this SA release has a better sound than the old cdr. I like this Mobile concert and june/july 1973 tour very much.

[Joern]

The soundquality is surely better than on the CDR... it could'nt get any worse. Very listenable? IMO the soundquality is by far the worst that Straight Arrow has released so far. It's not even on par with the soundquality with most of the EP Collector's releases. The "design" is lousy.

[ale]

Samples?

[YDKM]

Hmm I have this on pre order guess I will comment when I have it and listened?

[Markus K.]

I don't think Chris Middleton will return on the design for SA. But his work was definetly always top notch and sometimes made you wish the content would be as good as the look of package So in this regard content and package nowadays probably suit each other better

[sweetangeline]

I don't think Chris Middleton will return on the design for SA.

what was the last SA release he did?? thanks

[Markus K.]

I don't think Chris Middleton will return on the design for SA.

what was the last SA release he did?? thanks

I think possibly "There's A Sweet Spirit In This Place" in 2018? Not sure exactly though.
Probably from 2019 onwards it was homemade or whatever one might call it.

[On Tape 1972]

What happened to the "John Herman Tapes" series that was announced? I personally don't mind the less than stellar artwork.