Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis

AMG Review of Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis

Neal Umphred
All Music Guide

This oft-ignored album, recorded in March 1974 at Memphis' Midsouth Coliseum (formerly the center of controversy when the proposed title, the Elvis Presley Coliseum, was rejected), is easily the strongest live package of the '70s, the one worth having. Elvis is in exceptional vocal form and, amidst all the usual stuff that showed up on every other live album of the period, there is a great "Trying to Get to You," along with strong versions of "My Baby Left Me" and "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," material he otherwise rarely revisited.