It’s a quandary for Lisa Marie Presley, who performs here Wednesday (June 27, 2012) at the Belly Up and sits on the board of Elvis Presley Enterprises, which oversees her dad’s artistic legacy and ever-lucrative business interests. (Not so “Grace & Danger,” which is infused with a palpable air of melancholy as she performs songs whose raw emotion is often delivered in a near-hush.) Never mind that her singing on the album sounds much more like that of tough-but-tender Americana music favorite Lucinda Williams than her iconic dad.Īnd never mind that, apart from a periodic shared husky quality, Presley’s muted, no-frills vocals sound almost nothing like that of her late father, whose powerful singing always had a visceral, bigger-than-life quality. (At least two of the instrumentalists on “Raising Sand” are also featured on Presley’s new album.) Never mind that her spare, understated new album was produced by T Bone Burnett, who also oversaw the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” film soundtrack and the multiple-Grammy Award-winning album, “Raising Sand,” by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. “I got a good review, but then they want to rip into me because I’m not my father,” she continued, speaking from an Iowa tour stop. “The other day there was a review of one of my concerts, and the headline read: ‘Not bad, not her dad’,” said Presley, who was only 9 when her father - the man known worldwide as Elvis - died in 1977. With three solo albums to her credit, including this year’s critically acclaimed Americana music gem, “Storm & Grace,” you might think that Lisa Marie Presley has finally found a way out from the enormous shadow of her legendary father. The daughter of Elvis has worked hard to be her own woman Lisa Marie Presley avoiding her dad’s shadow
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