Monthly Archives: January 2016

`Heartbreak Hotel’ Turns 60

While visiting my Oklahoma hometown this past May I watched artists painting a mural on the side of an old building that had once been a hotel.  The evolving mural would eventually show, among other things, a depiction of songwriter Mae Boren Axton and Elvis Presley tenderly cradling a black disc as if it were a newborn.  Their baby grew …

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