True Love Travels on a Gravel Road explained

True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
Type:single
Artist:Duane Dee
B-Side:Have a Little Faith
Released:November 1968
Genre:Country music
Label:Capitol
Producer:Kelso Herston
Prev Title:We're the Kind of People (That Make the Jukebox Play)
Prev Year:1968
Next Title:Blessed Are the Poor
Next Year:1969

"True Love Travels on a Gravel Road" is a song written by the Frazier-Owens songwriting team and popularized by Elvis Presley. It was originally recorded by Duane Dee in 1968, and was a very minor hit, reaching #58 on the country charts. Elvis recorded the song on 17 February 1969 at American Sound Studios in Memphis.[1] He also performed the song at the International Hotel in the Las Vegas Valley on January 26, 1970.[2] It appears on From Elvis in Memphis, as well as a number of compilations; The Memphis Record, The Memphis 1969 Anthology: Suspicious Minds, and .

Cover versions

Notes and References

  1. Book: Neale, David. Roots of Elvis. 7 September 2011. 15 September 2003. iUniverse. 978-0-595-29505-0. 128.
  2. Book: Osborne, Jerry. Elvis - Word for Word: What He Said, Exactly As He Said It. 7 September 2011. 16 August 1999. Jerry Osborne Enterprises. 978-0-932117-29-8. 180.
  3. Book: Esquire: the magazine for men. 7 September 2011. 1995. Esquire, Inc.. 22.
  4. Book: Billboard. 7 September 2011. 18 March 1995. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 42. 0006-2510.