Lisa Marie Presley 'Storm & Grace' OUT NOW!

[ElijahWood]

*Storm & Grace OUT NOW

On May 15, Lisa Marie Presley will release her first album in five years, and it's produced by 12-time Grammy winner T Bone Burnett. Recorded at The Village in Los Angeles, Presley's album "reflects her Southern roots," says the release, "from the ominous, swampy vibe of lead single You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet and Sticks And Stones to Soften The Blows and the achingly beautiful title track, which evoke the ease of an impromptu back porch jam session."


Official video for 'You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet'






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Lisa will also be in the May edition of Elle Magazine..




Lisa Marie described her new album as no longer "pissed off and bitter" but "exposing her vulnerability" and "laying her soul bare with a 'this is me, take it or leave it' attitude."

"Her songwriting is brave and real. She's saying something," said Oscar-winning producer T Bone Burnett, who helped produce her latest album. "I think it helps Lisa Marie to have that genetic makeup, because there wasn't a better singer in the last century than Elvis Presley. Her dad had extraordinary taste and I think she got that from him."

Both Lisa Marie and Burnett tell Elle magazine the album is something Elvis would have been proud of and both are pleased to have achieved that goal.

[KeepDeanWeird]

WOW. I was just thinking about LMP yesterday and why she stopped her singing career. It's great to hear she's recording again. Thanks for posting the info.

[ElijahWood]

**Apparently, she is also set to perform on American Idol in May as part of her promo tour for the new album!

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lisa-marie-presley-new-album-t-bone-burnett-300632

[Deleted]

YES! Love her.

[SHOOTER]

1. Over Me
2. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
3. Weary
4. Close to the Edge
5. So Long
6. Un-break
7. Soften the Blows
8. Storm of Nails
9. How Do You Fly This Plane?
10. Sticks and Stones
11. Storm and Grace

[ElijahWood]

^Me also!

Does anyone know what other albums are to be released on the 15th of May? I really need Lisa to get that #1 debut!

[Nick]

Mar 28, 2012 15:38:42 GMT -5 ElijahWood said:

Does anyone know what other albums are to be released on the 15th of May? I really need Lisa to get that #1 debut!

pulsemusic.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gmn&action=display&thread=103067

[ElijahWood]

Apr 8, 2012 17:24:18 GMT -5 Nick said:

Mar 28, 2012 15:38:42 GMT -5 ElijahWood said:

Does anyone know what other albums are to be released on the 15th of May? I really need Lisa to get that #1 debut!

pulsemusic.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gmn&action=display&thread=103067

Thanks!

Hmm...Idk about #1, maybe if her AI promo is during the same week, maybe. Here's hoping!

[darko95]

Her single is cool. Production sounds like The Black Keys. They should put it in a movie or something.

[ElijahWood]

Apr 10, 2012 1:10:25 GMT -5 darko95 said:

Her single is cool. Production sounds like The Black Keys. They should put it in a movie or something.

MTE.

Apparently the song is about her leaving the Scientology religion. :o

[KeepDeanWeird]

Love the smoky vocals and dark production on YASNY. She really does have a great voice and some strong songwriting skills. Hope the disc is a success so that she doesn't take another long hiatus.

[ElijahWood]

Apr 20, 2012 11:09:03 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Love the smoky vocals and dark production on YASNY. She really does have a great voice and some strong songwriting skills. Hope the disc is a success so that she doesn't take another long hiatus.

Agreed! Her voice is lovely, and quite eerie at times.

I believe I read somewhere, awhile back, that Lisa mentioned she was only signed on to do 3 records? Not that she can't sign another contract.

[ElijahWood]

A clip from the album, titled 'Sticks & Stones'.
From what I hear it seems as if it might be one of the more personal and in-your-face cuts from the album. With lyrics such as "Too bad she ain't just like her daddy, ohh what a shame" and "She got no talent of her own, it's just a name".

[ElijahWood]

She will kick things off with a release date appearance on "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, May 15th.The segment will feature her performing the lead single, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," at the legendary Sun Studios in her hometown of Memphis, TN.

Presley will also perform on "American Idol" (5/17), "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (5/21), "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (5/22).

www.antimusic.com/news/12/May/04Lisa_Marie_Presley_Books_Leno,_American_Idol_and_More.shtml

[ElijahWood]

May 3, 2012 5:05:51 GMT -5 ElijahWood said:

A clip from the album, titled 'Sticks & Stones'.
From what I hear it seems as if it might be one of the more personal and in-your-face cuts from the album. With lyrics such as "Too bad she ain't just like her daddy, ohh what a shame" and "She got no talent of her own, it's just a name".

All new Access Hollywood interview with clips of her upcoming music video for 'You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet'.



And another fan-made lyric video sampling her new song 'I Was Wrong', reportedly about Michael Jackson (figured this would be the song people were interested in most, unfortunately).

[ElijahWood]

May 6, 2012 21:58:18 GMT -5 ElijahWood said:

She will kick things off with a release date appearance on "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, May 15th.The segment will feature her performing the lead single, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," at the legendary Sun Studios in her hometown of Memphis, TN.

Presley will also perform on "American Idol" (5/17), "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (5/21), "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (5/22).

www.antimusic.com/news/12/May/04Lisa_Marie_Presley_Books_Leno,_American_Idol_and_More.shtml

Here's a rehearsal video of her song 'Over Me' for her Good Morning America segment later this morning:



And don't forget to catch her on American Idol this Thursday, during the same episode as Adam Lambert!

[SHOOTER]

Now What? sold 193k total; I wonder if this album will do better.

[musicbuff78]

I really want to like her, but for some reason, I just can't. I don't know what it is.

[ElijahWood]

May 16, 2012 13:24:29 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

Now What? sold 193k total; I wonder if this album will do better.

Where did that figure come from? I never could find an exact figure for both albums. I know they are both certified Gold, though.
And I highly doubt this album will do better, as much as I want it to. Target in general isn't caring it, and a couple Walmarts have opted out too. It's currently #62 and #88 on iTunes.

However, it IS the superior album, and has been receiving a lot of positive reviews, which is what she needed in the long-run.

[ElijahWood]

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet official video!

[SHOOTER]

May 16, 2012 15:08:33 GMT -5 ElijahWood said:

May 16, 2012 13:24:29 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

Now What? sold 193k total; I wonder if this album will do better.

Where did that figure come from? I never could find an exact figure for both albums. I know they are both certified Gold, though.
And I highly doubt this album will do better, as much as I want it to. Target in general isn't caring it, and a couple Walmarts have opted out too. It's currently #62 and #88 on iTunes.

However, it IS the superior album, and has been receiving a lot of positive reviews, which is what she needed in the long-run.

HITS. And Now What? isn't certified Gold according to RIAA.

The lowest prediction for next was 18-22k for Garbage so she may come in lower than that.

[ElijahWood]

May 16, 2012 15:14:45 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

May 16, 2012 15:08:33 GMT -5 ElijahWood said:

Where did that figure come from? I never could find an exact figure for both albums. I know they are both certified Gold, though.
And I highly doubt this album will do better, as much as I want it to. Target in general isn't caring it, and a couple Walmarts have opted out too. It's currently #62 and #88 on iTunes.

However, it IS the superior album, and has been receiving a lot of positive reviews, which is what she needed in the long-run.

HITS. And Now What? isn't certified Gold according to RIAA.

The lowest prediction for next was 18-22k for Garbage so she may come in lower than that.

I wasn't questioning your figure, just saying that I've searched for the #'s and couldn't find them myself

And that's what I figured...less than the lowest prediction . She still has American Idol, though! I'm hoping for any figure that will land her a top10 placement. Anything under #15 will make me barf. This album deserves so much more.

[ElijahWood]

Lisa Marie Presley doesn’t seem to mind that everyone in the penthouse office of Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment in West Hollywood can see her when she extends both of her middle fingers in the direction of a reporter.

She used the gesture to exemplify how she felt about being asked to promote a “sexier image” at one point in her career. But for a woman whose life has been defined by public scrutiny, the move spoke volumes. Presley, 44, is done trying to live up to expectations that aren’t her own.

More proof? Her first album in seven years, “Storm & Grace” (out this week) finds Presley singing, “She got no talent of her own, it’s just her name,” on deluxe-edition track “Sticks and Stones,” her voice a painful wail while slide guitars whisk around her like unseen demons. In “Un-Break,” Presley wonders whether she was once a “backstabbing liar” and is only getting what she deserves against the sound of shuffling western-gothic grooves.

The album, her first for Universal Republic, may serve as a career reboot, but it also brings her back to her family roots, pairing her dusty, robust vocals with moody country and blues accents made famous by the Sun Studio recording house that captured the voice of her father. The stripped-down affair is produced by T Bone Burnett, an artist with a reputation for possessing a reverential, encyclopedic view of the American songbook.

It’s a far cry from Presley’s last album — a polished affair marked by glossy, Top 40 guitars and studio-enhanced vocals. “Yeah, I know,” Presley interrupts talk about the slick nature of her last release. “I was behind that. I tried to smooth it over, to hide behind it. I wanted louder guitars. I wanted the vocals tripled. All that.”

“I was insulated,” Presley says of that time, adding that she surrounded herself with a team of friends and employees who told her only what she wanted to hear.

“There was a scene woven around me that I had helped weave,” she says. “It was a personal scene -- employees, friends. It was an entourage. That’s all a big mistake. It’s all the stuff that happens to a typical L.A., high-profile…”

Presley trails off and waves her hand, palm up, as if to say, “You know, that scene.” But no one really does. After all, Elvis, the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, had but one daughter, and it’s not many who see their childhood home in Memphis, Tenn., become an internationally renown tourist attraction. That says nothing of Presley’s penchant for dominating the tabloids in her late 20s and early 30s, largely due to her short-lived marriage to Michael Jackson.

After releasing and promoting “Now What,” Presley embarked on a research project: herself. While certainly not ignorant of what was said and written about her -- specifically the outside expectations of how she was or wasn’t living up to her last name -- Presley says she was shielded from much of it.

“I went through a period where I was so upset at how obscured I had been from all of that,” she says. “I intentionally sought out everything bad that was written about me. If you’re looking for it, you’re going to get it.”

“Storm & Grace” gives it right back. First single “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” is a casual statement of defiance, a tough little saunter of a song in which a spiteful Presley talks about bucking the system. Later, the brushed rhythms and echoing chimes of “So Long” seem to emerge from a cemetery fog, with Presley, just above a whisper, telling off “fair-weather friends” and churches that “don’t have a soul.”

Ask Presley, who once spoke openly and favorably of the Church of Scientology, for more details on her lyrics, and she’ll keep things vague. The songs, and particularly the first single, she says, are “about finding out what your mother or your parents or your counselor or your therapist or your teacher or your priest really think about you, and finding out they [don’t think highly] of you, actually.” Her words, however, were a bit more colorful.

When Burnett heard the track “Un-Break,” he agreed to produce the album. “I was struck by how real she was in some of the songs,” he says. “It was sung in an incredibly unaffected way. I love when a singer sings like Sinatra, when it’s conversational. That’s the greatest challenge in singing, and she did that.”

The album was brought to Burnett by Fuller, Presley’s manager who is best-known for creating the “American Idol” franchise but also works with a host of more idiosyncratic artists, including Annie Lennox and local independent R&B singer Aloe Blacc. It was Fuller who encouraged Presley to retreat to England, where she now lives, and suggested she collaborate on songwriting with Pulp guitarist Richard Hawley and singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt.

Presley says it was a conscious effort to avoid her earlier tendency to “jack up” the production. Though she likes the songs on her first two albums, she was uncomfortable with everything that came along with selling them, and now regrets having been placed “in some category with other pop/rock stars.”

“If I’m pushed somewhere,” Presley says, “I’ll go the other way. So when someone came backstage and told me to dress sexy, I went out and wore giant combat boots and safety pins and did whatever I could to not be sexy.”

If the line between Burnett and her father isn’t direct, it does exist. Burnett worked with Elvis contemporary Roy Orbison, and recorded with Elvis’ TCB Band on records he produced with Elvis Costello.

“I have to say, I very much wanted to make a record her dad would have dug,” Burnett says. “That was important to me. I wanted to make a record everybody would dig, but especially him, for some reason. He’s such an inspirational figure. She’s part of our royal family.”

There’s no irony, Burnett says, in Presley retreating to England to reconnect with a sound that draws from her roots. He clarifies that she had to “disconnect with those other American roots,” the ones that encouraged her to chase pop stardom. Presley phrases it as a search for something she’s never really known: normalcy.

“When I moved to England I would hang out at the local pub, and they were such good people there,” Presley says. “They knew right from wrong. If someone came in and was drunk and acting like a jerk, they’d get thrown out. There was common sense. I needed to be around people with common sense.”

latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/05/lisa-marie-presley-tunes-in-to-her-roots-with-storm-grace.html

[ElijahWood]

3 out of 4 ;)

[ElijahWood]

More reviews!

"Storm and Grace" best thing from Presley since "Suspicious Minds" -Chicago Tribune
trib.in/JyJUs9

3 and half stars out of 5 - Slant Magazine
bit.ly/IPumeK

"Rock's Princess Finds Her Voice" -NPR Music
n.pr/J2iEgX

And Rolling Stone gave it 2 and a half out of 5 (party poopers)
bit.ly/L55W6i

[ElijahWood]

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Oh well, flawless album is still flawless.

[Mike]

She looked like a zombie during her not-so-live performance on American Idol & at the Billboard Music Awards.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I've been thinking of checking out this album even if just because of T-Bone.

[ElijahWood]

May 22, 2012 23:04:13 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

I've been thinking of checking out this album even if just because of T-Bone.

I think the album is amazing. T-None's production fits perfectly with Lisa Marie's smokey vocals.
The album is also really well written, and intriguing to say the least.

[ElijahWood]

2 45 120 PRESLEY*LISA MARIE STORM & GRACE 3881 -59 9379 13296
Ouch.

Given the fact that she only releases 2 singles from each album, and with this album selling so poorly, I'm afraid we won't see single #2, at least not with a video or promo. :(