If you walked out of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert wanting to hear more Elvis, The Mystery Train has been providing next steps for you through a series of album-length playlists.

Today’s final playlist covers 1969, a pivotal year for Elvis. He began by recording in a Memphis studio for the first time in well over a decade, continued by making his last movie as an actor, and finished by, as the EPiC teaser put it, returning “to the stage to begin a legendary residency in Las Vegas.” In EPiC, you actually saw his third engagement at the International Hotel, August 1970. In this playlist, you hear highlights from the first engagement, August 1969, which was not filmed.

The playlist is embedded here. You can also find it directly on Spotify. Below the playlist, I have a few other suggestions.

Side A

01. Suspicious Minds
02. Power Of My Love
03. Any Day Now
04. Don’t Cry Daddy
05. Kentucky Rain
06. In The Ghetto
07. Rubberneckin’
08. Change Of Habit

Side B: Live-Las Vegas

09. Blue Suede Shoes
10. Johnny B. Goode
11. My Babe
12. Mystery Train/Tiger Man
13. Are You Laughing Tonight
14. Suspicious Minds
15. Can’t Help Falling In Love

Also available: The complete After EPiC playlist on Spotify, combining all four segments.

Spotify plays additional music without warning after a playlist ends. Anything that follows “Can’t Help Falling In Love” is Spotify guessing what you might want to hear next.

Other Suggestions

While you wait for EPiC to be released on home media, my main viewing suggestion for you is Elvis: That’s The Way It Is – Special Edition. It covers rehearsals and Las Vegas shows in 1970. Outtakes from the original version of this documentary were featured prominently in EPiC. While it lacks Luhrmann’s signature style and Jonathan Redmond’s brilliant editing, the movie includes the same Elvis talent and charisma you experienced in EPiC.

If you want to read more about Elvis, I recommend Elvis Presley: A Life In Music – The Complete Recording Sessions by Ernst Jorgensen (1998), Last Train To Memphis: The Rise Of Elvis Presley, covering 1935-1958, by Peter Guralnick (1994), and Careless Love: The Unmaking Of Elvis Presley, covering 1958-1977, by Guralnick (1999). While not without their flaws, they remain the best Elvis books to date.

Finally, if you want to dive even deeper into playlists beyond After EPiC, check out The Mystery Train’s Elvis Odyssey series. While After EPiC concludes in 1969, The Elvis Odyssey begins there.

If you have any questions, please comment below or contact me. Thank you for reading and listening.