From Sea To Shining Sea - Rockin Across America

MILLBRANCH MUSIC is back on track after receiving raving reviews for our 2021 mega-release “Kansas City ´74 Revisited”. And we nail it again with a great concept of “Music & Video” in one set! We have worked for months to make sure that our latest product corresponds to the high standard we set ourselves.

The result is that we are now able to present a new 3-Disc (+ 1) Digipack release for every serious “Elvis live in the 70´s” – collector! If you liked our last years release, you will like this new one, too!

Introducing our latest “Soundboard” release on the “MBM” label here are three complete shows by Elvis and his exciting group of musicians from 1976 on audio cd. That alone would give a nice listen but hey, there is one more disc in this set and that is for sure the cream of the crop: 134 Minutes of rare and in big parts unreleased (!) film footage in never before seen stunning quality of Elvis´ concert journey “from sea to shining sea” between two historic New Years Eve performances in 1976. Which means in detail, that we are telling the story of the “Elvis On Tour” bicentennial year on stage and even while travelling!

Taken from the very best available sources (including a lot of footage taken from original film-reels) you´ll see highlights from his concerts in Pontiac, MI – Johnson City, TN (featuring the very first live version of “Hurt”) – Charlotte, NC – Largo, MD - Hartford, CT – Chicago, IL – Birmingham, AL - Atlanta, GA and Pittsburgh, PA, with very special and lengthy features of his concerts in Fort Worth, TX (June 3), Philadelphia, PA (June 28) and Anaheim, CA (November 30).

Over the last years we did invest in a lot of original film-reels. Early this year we had the opportunity to invest in one of Elvis´ Fort Worth performance

(June 3, 1976) – and so we did. The 30 minutes of pleasantly steady and pretty close to the stage filmed footage has been for sure worth every dollar we have spent on it. The film-reel has then been scanned in 4K Ultra HD resolution, just to make sure that we can extract as much detail as possible from the analogue film. The outcome of the scan has then been carefully processed to retrieve the best possible result from the originally a bit overexposed film. If you compare the starting material and the end result after processing with the best available technology you would not believe how much of information still is there in the original film which of course had to be worked on carefully (and time-consuming) to finally enjoy it as not even the guy who filmed it back then could. So you can expect something special from this – and also this is the main reason why we chose to put Elvis´ two 1976-Concert dates in Fort Worth as the main part of the audio on two of the cd´s. And there is a third cd that is presented in its own sleeve outside of the digi-pack – a so-called “Bonus CD”: Anaheim, CA from November 30, 1976 has been chosen as this concert has its own special feature on the DVD included.

Talking about audio: We have decided already last year with our first “Soundboard” release, that we are using today´s technical possibilities to get out the very best of those treasured “old” tapes. So, again we have used all of our experience and knowledge plus professional equipment to make sure the audio sounds more balanced and clearer than ever before. Needless to say that speed issues are a thing of the past. While processing this, it even turned out to become Stereo! Give it a listen and you will hear what we mean – you will enjoy it!

Tracklist CD 1: FORT WORTH, TX -- June 3, 1976

01. Introduction by Bruce Jackson

02. Theme from SWAT – Love Me Tender (Joe Guercio Orchestra)

03. Also Sprach Zarathustra

04. See See Rider

05. I Got A Woman / Amen

06. Love Me

07. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)

08. You Gave Me A Mountain

09. All Shook Up

10. Teddy Bear – Don´t Be Cruel

11. Heartbreak Hotel

12. Help Me

13. Jailhouse Rock

14. Fever

15. Polk Salad Annie

16. Group Introductions

17. Early Morning Rain

18. What´d I Say

19. Johnny B. Goode

20. Drum Solo

21. Bass Solo

22. Piano Solo

23. Electric Clavinet Solo

24. Love Letters

25. School Days

26. Happy Birthday To Bruce Jackson

27. Hurt (With Full Reprise)

28. Hound Dog

29. Funny How Time Slips Away

30. Can´t Help Falling In Love

31. Closing Vamp - Announcement

Tracklist CD 2: FORT WORTH, TX -- July 3, 1976

01. Also Sprach Zarathustra

02. See See Rider

03. I Got A Woman / Amen

04. Love Me

05. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)

06. You Gave Me A Mountain

07. All Shook Up

08. Teddy Bear – Don´t Be Cruel

09. And I Love You So

10. Jailhouse Rock

11. Fever

12. America The Beautiful

13. Polk Salad Annie

14. Group Introductions

15. Early Morning Rain

16. What´d I Say

17. Johnny B. Goode

18. Bass Solo

19. Piano Solo

20. Electric Clavinet Solo

21. Love Letters

22. School Days

23. Hurt (With Reprise)

24. Hound Dog

25. Funny How Time Slips Away

26. Can´t Help Falling In Love

27. Closing Vamp

Tracklist BONUS CD: ANAHEIM, CA – November 30, 1976

01. See See Rider

02. I Got A Woman / Amen

03. Love Me

04. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)

05. You Gave Me A Mountain

06. Jailhouse Rock

07. It´s Now Or Never

08. All Shook Up

09. Teddy Bear – Don´t Be Cruel

10. And I Love You So

11. Fever

12. Bridge Over Troubled Water (With Break)

13. Polk Salad Annie

14. Introductions I

15. Early Morning Rain (incomplete)

16. What´d I Say

17. Johnny B. Goode

18. Drum Solo

19. Bass Solo

20. Piano Solo

21. Electric Clavinet Solo

22. Love Letters

23. Introductions II

24. School Days

25. Hurt

26. Hound Dog

27. Hawaiian Wedding Song

28. Blue Christmas

29. That´s All Right

30. Can´t Help Falling In Love

31. Closing Vamp

Content DVD: A full documentary about Elvis on Tour in 1976