It's "Elvis Week," and since this year marks the 30th anniversary of the King's demise, there's a good chance we'll be inundated with mawkish/contentious/revisionist TV specials/news reports/blog posts by Friday. The excellent
Boogie Woogie Flu blog, a treasure trove of crackly old vinyl from the early rock'n'roll era and before, has a handful of Elvis-related MP3's and a reprint of Peter Guralnick's posthumous
New York Times interrogation of the prevailing notion that Presley was a racist and/or an exploiter of African-American music.
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