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Elvis Presley - You Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country, Vol. 2

Label: Gravel Road Music GR CD 7009-2 (Released: 2013)

Tracklisting:

June 7, 1970
01 - When I’m Over You (take 1, undubbed master)
02 - I Really Don’t Want To Know (take 4, undubbed master)
03 - Faded Love (take 1, undubbed master)
04 - Tomorrow Never Comes (take 13, undubbed master)
05 - The Next Step Is Love (take 11, undubbed master)
06 - Make The World Go Away (take 3, Spliced undubbed master)
07 - Funny How Times Slips Away (take 1, unedited undubbed master)
08 - I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water (take 1, unedited undubbed master)
09 - Love Letters (take 5, unedited undubbed master)

June 8, 1970
10 - There Goes My Everything (take 1)
11 - If I Were You (take 9, undubbed master)
12 - Only Believe (take 4, unedited undubbed master)
13 - Sylvia (take 8, unedited undubbed master)
14 - Patch It Up (take 8, unedited undubbed master)

September 22, 1970
15 - Snowbird (take 6, undubbed master)
16 - Where Did They Go Lord ? (take 6, undubbed master)
17 - Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On (take 2, unedited undubbed master)
18 - Rags to Riches (take 4, unrepaired undubbed master)

Bonus tracks:
19 - I’ve Lost You (take 7 with June 22 backup vocal overdubs)
20 - Bridge over troubled water (take 8 with July 18 brass & string overdub)
21 - The Next Step Is Love (take 11 with July 18 brass & string overdub)
22 - I’ll Never Know (take 7 with July 18 brass & strings overdub - no backing vocals)

Incl. covers

"Notes: Track 15 isn't the undubbed master from Snowbird! as listed on the cover ! It is the edited take 1. The undubbed master is still lost.
Tracks 19 - 22 were announced as previous unreleased recordings, but they are not! We hear new mixed master takes. 
Overall, here is nothing new,... except the count-in before "Sylvia" and the complete intro before "If I were You".

Presss info:
All acetate recordings are collected from private collections of which many for the first time in this shape on CD. These are the acetates that Elvis took home to playback and agreed to be released! All tracks have been digitally restored and re-mastered.
These acetates often sound better & different than what we know and made it to a LP or nowadays on CD. Together with Volume 1, it is the complete acetate collection of the famous Nashville sessions of 1970. When you love the vinyl sound, this is the closest you ever get to Elvis’ original sound of that recording moment!
This is the perfect addition to the FTD releases of “Elvis Country, Love letters from Elvis & Elvis, That’s the way it is” All tracks are digitally restored and improved BUT absolute priority has been given to the historical content, this to maintain the true sound of the recording. It comes with a 16 pages booklet with in-depth liner notes (part 2) and more info about the acetates and some unusual photos of Elvis." (Source: Elvisoncd.com)