Featuring Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash

Legendary Session Released In Its Entirety For The First Time Ever - In The Original Sequence

CD Available In Stores and Online September 19th

Million Dollar Quartet

Detailed liner notes recount the history of this legendary recording session. In brief, on the afternoon of December 4, 1956, a coincidental gathering of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash at the famous Sun Studio in Memphis Tennessee, resulted in the world's first superstar jam session and the making of the one and only Million Dollar Quartet.

This historic event, captured by the studio owner Sam Phillips, provides a refreshing 'fly-on-the-wall' glimpse of what music truly inspired some of the world's legendary artists.

Details of the legendary session were documented the next day in the local newspaper but the recorded audio session wasn't released to the public until 1990. Now, for the first time, the entire session including never before released songs is available on the new 50th Anniversary Edition of the Million Dollar Quartet.

It is hard to describe this miraculous recording without listening to it for oneself; however, perhaps Sam Philips described it best in a note that he attached to the newspaper article which he sent to local radio DJs: "We thought you might like to read first-hand about our little shindig -- it was a dilly!"


Source: EPE