In chapter 22, there is a section with an interview with Sam Phillips that I found to be very interesting. Here, he talks about Elvis Presley and how he and Sam got along and what their relationship was along with a little bit about some of his songs. A few questions that Sam was asked which I found particularly interesting were, “What were you trying to achieve with Elvis?” His response was somewhere along the lines of Elvis was the most unique individual that stepped foot into the studio. He says that he needed to “establish a direction” for him. I think it’s awesome how excited he really was about maybe getting a chance to better guide Elvis in the right direction as an artist, being that he did not really belong to any specific band or anything of that nature. He wanted to do something “different” than ever before with Elvis.

In this ‘interview’ article with Sam Phillips, I thought it was great how he was able to see so much potential and originality in Elvis’ style. Enough to be able to decide that he wanted to be the one to take Elvis and try to make something great of him. I also thought it was very interesting how he wanted Elvis so bad, and yet he let him go even though he was a huge success. However, in this article, Sam says that he feels letting Elvis go was the best judgement call he could of made. Sam says that when Elvis finally ‘made it’ he was the happiest man in the world. He really believed in Elvis as a blues singer mainly.

I think through everything that Sam is saying, it would be cool if maybe they would of gotten to have an interview with Elvis as well as Sam to hear his side of the story, and his reactions to everything. I know that Sam believed in Elvis a lot and was very proud of him, but I can’t help wondering if Elvis felt the same way, being that Sam had more of the ‘creator’ role, and Elvis was more of the ‘creation.’ I would like to know if Sam Phillips’ methods and ideas were effective for Elvis and how much he really felt that Sam could help him.