A Lament for Epirus nonfragile With Elvis's cover of "Blue

With Elvis's cover of "Blue Suede Shoes" recorded and ready to release at the same time as Perkins' original version

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Presley requested that his major label distribution hold back his cover single until the original single sold one million copies

A Lament for Epirus nonfragile With Elvis's cover of "BlueAlexis Zoumbas was one of the most sublime musicians to ever cast a shadow across the face of the Earth and no one has been able to translate the emotions of despair, of devastation, through an instrument as effectively as Zoumbas. Years of research and obsession have resulted in this, the first collection of recordings by the legendary and masterful Greek folk violinist Alexis Zoumbas. Very few Pre War musicians have tapped deeper into the human soul