Lisa Marie Presley

The King's daughter proves she can hold her own -- and then some - on her debut album. The first single, a gritty (yet polished) rocker called "Lights Out," sets the tone for this album of countrified, mid-tempo numbers a la Sheryl Crow or Melissa Etheridge. So check it out in Rhapsody. Go on. You know you want to.

It has taken Lisa Marie Presley thirty-five years to find her voice, and here's the surprise:
It's actually good. To Whom It May Concern, the debut album from Elvis Presley's only child,
is a dark memoir, alternately regretful and scathing, dripping confessional acid. "Someone
turned the lights out there in Memphis/That's where my family's buried and gone," Presley
laments over the country-rock chug of "Lights Out." "Last time I was there I notic... More >

The first surprise is that the Glen Ballard AOR isn't worse. The second surprise is that she wrote the intense if clumsy lyrics herself. The final surprise is that seven months after its No. 5 debut nobody remembers it ever existed except Elvis fan clubs, the Church of Scientology, the president of Capitol Records, and maybe, just maybe, Jann Wenner. (Grade - C)