Album Notes

Hello fellow Elvis fans!

Jamie Aaron Kelley here.. for those who don't know me, I've been an Elvis fan since before I could walk, and I was previously an Elvis performer for 23 years (I'm 29 at the time of this writing - 02/17/09, I started the age of 3).. In 1999, I set a world record by singing every song Elvis did that we have audio proof of - almost 800 songs - all from memory.

Over the years, I've heard everything from the old "American Sound" and "Star Trax" background tracks from the 80s up to today's companies like Music Maestro, Sound Choice, and others. as I got older, my standards for what I considered "good" background tracks got higher, as I'm sure they did for everybody else. However, as I started to fully come into my own as an Elvis fan, I got even more strict because I got so used to hearing Elvis' own versions of the songs that I started cringing when I didn't hear the same sounds on my tracks. Then I got to thinking: paying anywhere from $30 to $160 for a single CD when only a few of the tracks on each were any good (and that's when I was lucky) was..... um... well, it wasn't good, I'll put it that way. :)

So I thought to myself... (not to brag but) I feel I know the music as well as anybody else in the business, and I'm lucky enough to know many of the people who performed with Elvis over the years. I also know that there are many people in the Elvis Entertainment business who feel the same way I had about the quality of background tracks and who'd love to have tracks that really come as close to the originals as possible in both the feel of the music AND the notes themselves, not just one or the other. And so, I've decided to "put my money where my mouth is," so to speak, and record the background tracks myself, and make them affordable so that everybody can have them (especially since recording all this can get REALLY expensive, as much as $40,000 for a single CD of material).

And so here is a company...Just Awesome Karaoke - from the Elvis Fan TO the Elvis Fan and Performer. These first two CD releases are a complete and comprehensive collection of Elvis' SUN Records and Louisiana Hayride songs.

ALL of these recordings capture the feel and vibe as well as the notes of the originals as closely as possible, even down to using the same michrophone tricks to get the sound they got and mimicking many of the mistakes they made since all those mistakes added to the charm of "perfect imperfection" that Sam Phillips and Elvis believed in. On top of all that, the songs were recorded at THE VERY PLACE Elvis recorded the originals --- SUN RECORDING STUDIO in Memphis! In addition, the music was recorded by The Dempseys, a truly amazing, award-winning rockabilly trio that has appeared all over the world with numerous artists and groups, and well as appearing in films such as the Johnny Cash movie "Walk The Line".

Since many of the original SUN and Hayride recordings are not in the cleanest audio quality, our recordings have an authentic but much cleaner sound to be more suited to live performance, while still retaining the feel and everything of the originals.

The discs won't break your bank account either.. retail price for each CD is only $30 + shipping & handling, which for the number of songs on the disc is one of the very best prices for the material (most charge $60 up to $160 for 12 songs) - and THE best price when considering the quality is better than every other place out there. To keep the cost at $30, this is a standard audio CD and is *not* a CD-G, as CD-G is much more expensive to produce.

So thanks to everybody for your interest, and I hope you enjoy this karaoke CD that was truly a labor of love.


Sincerely,
Jamie Aaron Kelley