Searching For The King Seance – LIVE from Tupelo

October 31, 2011 –  WOW Productions is hosting the “Searching For The King” Seance’ and you can be there and see everything as it happens Live!!!! pre-register here today!
The seance’ will be streamed on line and all you do is click in your computer and watch it live. Pre-register today for only $10.00 but on October 31,2011, the registration will be $15.00. Register today and get the savings and a reserved spot Online. This is going to be a lot of fun and very exciting and who knows, just maybe he will show up!!!
Don’t miss the excitement and fun the evening of October 31, 2011, Halloween night, as we go searching for the king, beginning at 10:00 PM United States Central time Zone live from Tupelo, Mississippi!

Patti Parry Hospitalized – Rest In Peace

Patti Parry is very ill and in the hospital. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital and is now in ICU. It is a number of things and they are still running test. She is currently on a ventilator. Please keep her in your prayers. Patti Parry passed away hours after this post.

Newly UNSEALED American military files include Elvis Presley

A peek into famous soldiers’ service

Newly unsealed American military files provide a different side of lives of prominent personalities

In a fireproof fortress at the centre of the continent, a million boxes hold a billion pages of new truths about old soldiers. It is the new U.S. National Archives Personnel Records building, dedicated last week and built to hold, for all eternity, the histories of American military veterans both famous and forgotten, telling us how they served – or fell in glory – on the battlefield, from the skies or deep in the pitiless sea.

Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Robinson, John Coltrane, John Dillinger, Clark Gable, Jack Kerouac, Joe Louis, Roberto Clemente, Arthur Fiedler, Steve McQueen, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Humphrey Bogart, Doctor Seuss – warriors all, detached from their regiments now as so-called Persons of Exceptional Prominence.

Files are unsealed for public viewing when a famous soldier or sailor or airman has been dead a decade or more.

We’ll have to wait awhile before we can peek into the service records of George Strait, MC Hammer, Kris Kristofferson, Mystikal, Mister T and Ice-T, all of whom are still alive.

Most of the folders contain at least 50 pages, detailing every inoculation, every laundry bill, every medal for bravery, every night in the brig.

scroll through the portfolio of Pte. Elvis Aaron Presley, Company A, 1st Tank Battalion, 32nd Armoured Regiment, 3rd Armoured Division, 4th U.S. army.

DOES REGISTRANT MEET MINIMUM INTELLIGENCE STANDARDS? YES.

HAVE YOU EVER HAD OR HAVE YOU NOW? Mumps, YES; Whooping Cough, YES; Frequent Trouble Sleeping, YES; Frequent or Terrifying Nightmares, YES.

There are letters from sycophants and U.S. senators seeking personal appearances in the Presley file, all with the same result:

“This letter is in reply to your inquiry concerning the possibility that Pte. Elvis Presley might be deferred from overseas shipment to attend the Texas Prison Rodeo … I regret it is not possible to comply with your request. “

And:

“School teacher wishes info on Presley as she believes he was involved with spy ring during his tour of duty in Europe.” And there are angry notes from families displeased by the rumour that Presley is to be discharged early on the grounds of “Good Behavior” (He wasn’t).

“Our Son is station [sic] in Frankfort (sic) Germany, same as this guy name Presley, and my Son also has a job waiting for him, of course not as important as “Elvis.”

“I am sure us poor people can do without his singing and Rock ‘n’ roll until he serves his country like my Son has to.”

Dewey Phillips' boys meet the cast of "Memphis" the musical

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=11212

Dewey Phillips’ Family Meets ‘Memphis’ Cast: MyFoxMEMPHIS.com

Anxious theater goers waited to see Memphis the Musical since it kicked off its national tour at The Orpheum, but none were as nervous as the Phillips brothers, Randy and Jerry.

“I am looking forward to watching it,” said Randy. “I am sure it will meet or exceed my expectations.”

They had never seen the production based loosely on their dad, legendary Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips. His character in the musical is named Huey Calhoun and played by Bryan Fenkart.

“He sounds a lot like my dad; his mannerisms were a lot like my dad’s were.”

Randy’s wife Doris of 37 years never met her father-in-law.

“I feel like I know him because I have heard all those stories all these many years, and I think those two are full of Dewey!”

The family had not been told of a surprise FOX13 set up for them, a meeting that left a lasting impression on the family and a cast member. It happened right after the show as well-wishers acknowledged the family. The Orpheum invited the family for a rare back stage tour. They met David Bryan, who wrote the Tony Award-winning music and lyrics, and shook hands with Randy Adams, one of the producers. Then was the meeting no one ever imagined – the fictional father meets the real children of his character’s muse.

“I am Randy Phillips, you were playing my dad. You did a great job. You had his mannerism down. It was like bringing back old times.”

“I am Jerry Phillips, Dewey’s middle son. You did a fine job.”

“I really appreciate you coming back,” Fenkart replied. “It is so crazy to meet the lineage after all this!”

“Like I was saying, it brought back old memories,” Randy said. “I was telling my wife, I wish dad could have been here to see it.”

“After how much we listened, I listened to his stuff to capture the essence of it… the endorsement saying we did it well means a great deal coming from you,” Fenkart said.

They sat for a few minutes to look over family pictures no one has seen before, like old photos of dad in the hospital. The mementos helped Fenkart bring his character into sharper focus, and created an emotional bond between the family of a legend and his portrayal on the national stage.

Jerry said of his father, “He is smiling right now.”

Dewey Phillips’ boys meet the cast of "Memphis" the musical

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=11212

Dewey Phillips’ Family Meets ‘Memphis’ Cast: MyFoxMEMPHIS.com

Anxious theater goers waited to see Memphis the Musical since it kicked off its national tour at The Orpheum, but none were as nervous as the Phillips brothers, Randy and Jerry.

“I am looking forward to watching it,” said Randy. “I am sure it will meet or exceed my expectations.”

They had never seen the production based loosely on their dad, legendary Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips. His character in the musical is named Huey Calhoun and played by Bryan Fenkart.

“He sounds a lot like my dad; his mannerisms were a lot like my dad’s were.”

Randy’s wife Doris of 37 years never met her father-in-law.

“I feel like I know him because I have heard all those stories all these many years, and I think those two are full of Dewey!”

The family had not been told of a surprise FOX13 set up for them, a meeting that left a lasting impression on the family and a cast member. It happened right after the show as well-wishers acknowledged the family. The Orpheum invited the family for a rare back stage tour. They met David Bryan, who wrote the Tony Award-winning music and lyrics, and shook hands with Randy Adams, one of the producers. Then was the meeting no one ever imagined – the fictional father meets the real children of his character’s muse.

“I am Randy Phillips, you were playing my dad. You did a great job. You had his mannerism down. It was like bringing back old times.”

“I am Jerry Phillips, Dewey’s middle son. You did a fine job.”

“I really appreciate you coming back,” Fenkart replied. “It is so crazy to meet the lineage after all this!”

“Like I was saying, it brought back old memories,” Randy said. “I was telling my wife, I wish dad could have been here to see it.”

“After how much we listened, I listened to his stuff to capture the essence of it… the endorsement saying we did it well means a great deal coming from you,” Fenkart said.

They sat for a few minutes to look over family pictures no one has seen before, like old photos of dad in the hospital. The mementos helped Fenkart bring his character into sharper focus, and created an emotional bond between the family of a legend and his portrayal on the national stage.

Jerry said of his father, “He is smiling right now.”

Chris Isaak on the Today Show Tomorrow @ 10 AM

Chris Isaak will be live on the Today Show tomorrow @ 10 AM promoting his new album, Beyond The Sun. The album is available on Amazon & iTunes! Order now!

Chris Isaak, Elvis & Priscilla Presley

SAN FRANCISCO – Bill’s Place is Chris Isaak’s kind of place. Great burgers, sinful fries and saucy waitresses. There’s something decidedly retro about the joint. Ditto the guy digging into his lunch out on the patio, given his, well, let’s just say it, Elvis voice and looks.
“The ’50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful,” says Isaak, 55. “But I didn’t record this new album out of nostalgia.”
Isaak’s new disc, Beyond the Sun, out Oct. 18, was recorded with his longtime band at Memphis’ fabled Sun Studios, and includes both rock staples (from Great Balls of Fire to Ring of Fire) and uptempo originals such as the album’s first single, Live It Up.
But in tackling this material, Isaak wasn’t interested in lionizing an era (“The ’50s had polio and racism, too,” he says bluntly) but rather paying tribute to his modest childhood in scrappy Stockton, Calif.

A memorable serenade
Chris Isaak knew early on that something about Elvis Presley rocked his world. And it didn’t hurt that he could look and sound like The King with ease. “Elvis was my nickname when I was a boxer as a kid,” says Isaak, who in his 20s boxed as a light heavyweight for a university in Japan. “I was like, ‘OK, well, maybe.’ But I knew I didn’t want to be an impersonator.” Once he’d made a name for himself, Isaak felt more comfortable tackling Presley’s canon on stage. Which led to what he considers one of the most fantastically embarrassing moments of his life. I was playing the Greek Theatre (in Los Angeles) a few years back, and I walked into the crowd to sing a song,” he says. “I started in on Love Me Tender and looked around in the dark for someone to sing it to, kind of like a lounge singer would. So I turned to this woman and starting singing. And then I saw who it was. Priscilla Presley. “I just went, ‘Uh … uh …’ I forgot the words. I said, ‘Man, I didn’t mean to do that.’ And she gave me this smiling look like, ‘Yeah, I’ve heard this song before.’” “
My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee (Lewis) and Fats Domino are the classics, they’re the best songs ever,” says the man who sprung into the cultural mainstream in the early ’90s with Wicked Game.
“I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws,” he says. “But It’s Now or Never? There’s nothing ever wrong with that.”
Isaak says that for years he shied away from covering his heroes for fear of being pigeonholed as a retro crooner. That was a wise move, says Alan Light, Rolling Stone contributing writer.
“He was smart to not do an album like this early in his career, but now he can,” says Light. “The tricky thing is, how do you win in a head-to-head battle with those (legends)? You can’t really advance a song like I Walk the Line. But Isaak can easily pass the sincerity test, which makes his versions of these songs work.”
Besides, adds Light, anything that “brings a spotlight to a place like Sun Studios is a good thing. (Studios such as) Stax and Hitsville are gone. But Sun remains.”
The idea for Beyond the Sun came years ago, after Isaak read an interview with Sam Phillips, Sun Studio’s monarch who crowned the careers of Elvis, Johnny Cash and Lewis, among others. In the article, Phillips cited Isaak as a personal favorite.
“Reading that brought tears to my eyes, because it was what Sam did that made me a musician,” says Isaak, who was planning to meet Phillips when the legend died at 80 in July 2003. “I loved that he knew that I loved all that stuff.”
Preparations for the album began at his home studio here. The woodshedding sessions went late into the night, fueled by pots of spaghetti cooked up by Isaak, who is Italian on his mother’s side. (“And let’s face it,” he says with a laugh, “whatever your mother is, is what you are.”)
Once prepared, the band made for Memphis. Setting up nightly just as the studio’s public tours wound down, Isaak and his gang pounded through a few dozen classics, doing just one or two takes each, breaking only to get milkshakes from the diner next door.
“It was the most fun I’ve ever had,” he says of the sessions. “We knew our stuff cold.”
Sun Studios is a comically small place, considering its global impact; it’s as if The Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Who had all recorded in the same small London building. So does it have an aura?
“I’m not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music,” says Isaak. “I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, ‘Really, angels?’
“Well, Carlos was right. Now I get it. It’s not like those guys were talking to me in that room, but you feel like you want to do your very best out of respect for them,” he says. “It’s like, Babe Ruth hit it out of the park. You know you’re not going to be as good as Elvis or Jerry Lee, but I just wanted to go in there and hit a good one.”

USA Today

Chris Isaak, Elvis & Priscilla Presley

SAN FRANCISCO – Bill’s Place is Chris Isaak’s kind of place. Great burgers, sinful fries and saucy waitresses. There’s something decidedly retro about the joint. Ditto the guy digging into his lunch out on the patio, given his, well, let’s just say it, Elvis voice and looks.
“The ’50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful,” says Isaak, 55. “But I didn’t record this new album out of nostalgia.”
Isaak’s new disc, Beyond the Sun, out Oct. 18, was recorded with his longtime band at Memphis’ fabled Sun Studios, and includes both rock staples (from Great Balls of Fire to Ring of Fire) and uptempo originals such as the album’s first single, Live It Up.
But in tackling this material, Isaak wasn’t interested in lionizing an era (“The ’50s had polio and racism, too,” he says bluntly) but rather paying tribute to his modest childhood in scrappy Stockton, Calif.

A memorable serenade
Chris Isaak knew early on that something about Elvis Presley rocked his world. And it didn’t hurt that he could look and sound like The King with ease. “Elvis was my nickname when I was a boxer as a kid,” says Isaak, who in his 20s boxed as a light heavyweight for a university in Japan. “I was like, ‘OK, well, maybe.’ But I knew I didn’t want to be an impersonator.” Once he’d made a name for himself, Isaak felt more comfortable tackling Presley’s canon on stage. Which led to what he considers one of the most fantastically embarrassing moments of his life. I was playing the Greek Theatre (in Los Angeles) a few years back, and I walked into the crowd to sing a song,” he says. “I started in on Love Me Tender and looked around in the dark for someone to sing it to, kind of like a lounge singer would. So I turned to this woman and starting singing. And then I saw who it was. Priscilla Presley. “I just went, ‘Uh … uh …’ I forgot the words. I said, ‘Man, I didn’t mean to do that.’ And she gave me this smiling look like, ‘Yeah, I’ve heard this song before.’” “
My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee (Lewis) and Fats Domino are the classics, they’re the best songs ever,” says the man who sprung into the cultural mainstream in the early ’90s with Wicked Game.
“I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws,” he says. “But It’s Now or Never? There’s nothing ever wrong with that.”
Isaak says that for years he shied away from covering his heroes for fear of being pigeonholed as a retro crooner. That was a wise move, says Alan Light, Rolling Stone contributing writer.
“He was smart to not do an album like this early in his career, but now he can,” says Light. “The tricky thing is, how do you win in a head-to-head battle with those (legends)? You can’t really advance a song like I Walk the Line. But Isaak can easily pass the sincerity test, which makes his versions of these songs work.”
Besides, adds Light, anything that “brings a spotlight to a place like Sun Studios is a good thing. (Studios such as) Stax and Hitsville are gone. But Sun remains.”
The idea for Beyond the Sun came years ago, after Isaak read an interview with Sam Phillips, Sun Studio’s monarch who crowned the careers of Elvis, Johnny Cash and Lewis, among others. In the article, Phillips cited Isaak as a personal favorite.
“Reading that brought tears to my eyes, because it was what Sam did that made me a musician,” says Isaak, who was planning to meet Phillips when the legend died at 80 in July 2003. “I loved that he knew that I loved all that stuff.”
Preparations for the album began at his home studio here. The woodshedding sessions went late into the night, fueled by pots of spaghetti cooked up by Isaak, who is Italian on his mother’s side. (“And let’s face it,” he says with a laugh, “whatever your mother is, is what you are.”)
Once prepared, the band made for Memphis. Setting up nightly just as the studio’s public tours wound down, Isaak and his gang pounded through a few dozen classics, doing just one or two takes each, breaking only to get milkshakes from the diner next door.
“It was the most fun I’ve ever had,” he says of the sessions. “We knew our stuff cold.”
Sun Studios is a comically small place, considering its global impact; it’s as if The Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Who had all recorded in the same small London building. So does it have an aura?
“I’m not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music,” says Isaak. “I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, ‘Really, angels?’
“Well, Carlos was right. Now I get it. It’s not like those guys were talking to me in that room, but you feel like you want to do your very best out of respect for them,” he says. “It’s like, Babe Ruth hit it out of the park. You know you’re not going to be as good as Elvis or Jerry Lee, but I just wanted to go in there and hit a good one.”

USA Today

Cowboy Jack Clement receives the Maggie Cavendar Award

On September 19th, Cowboy received the Maggie Cavendar Award of Service (in recognition of extraordinary service to the songwriting community).

Photos by CJ Flanagan

Cowboy with Country songstress, Lynn Anderson

Cowboy Jack Clement & Chris Isaak rocking Sun Studio – Video

Chris Isaak – Beyond the Sun EPK from VanguardVideo on Vimeo.

Chris Isaak’s new album, Beyond The Sun drops tomorrow. And as we exclusively told you in January, Cowboy Jack Clement was Back in Memphis at Sun Studio to record with Chris for the new release. Watch the video above and you’ll see Cowboy & Chris rocking Sun Studio!

Want more on Cowboy Jack Clement? Click on the video below for an interview we did with Jack at his studio in Nashville.

You can also listen to Cowboy on Saturday afternoons on SiriusXM

This is a MUST HAVE release!