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For Elvis fans only, especially those with a love of Stax-Volt R & B and Motown. The effect of cramming twenty — count 'em, twenty — short tracks together on one record amounts to near-overload or a diffusion of focus. Nonetheless, quality and quantity are high. In general, the Attractions play Booker T. and the M.G.'s, while Elvis portrays a latter-day Soloman Burke. One cut actually lifts melody and arrangement from Booker T.'s "Time Is Tight." Titles like "Beaten To The Punch," "I Stand Accused" and "Temptation" are not-so-oblique references to Elvis' current influences. Not the acerbic, flamboyant work of his first three LP's. Warm, spare and wry.
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