He never called, never wrote, and he knew exactly where to find her. Mag’s had expected and waited for Moses to come back for her all those years ago but he never did. A love that began in the midst of a hurricane and blew out of town just as fast but left both parties as wrecked as the city.įifteen years later Moses Gaspard blows back into New Orleans to tear apart Magnolia Maison’s hard earned new life. A former gangster who wanted to be a kingpin until is life changed in ways he never could have predicted. It has a former hooker with a heart, turned madam, now gone legitimate. This book was terrific, a five star book if I have ever read one. Loved it! Especially the anti-hero and the anti-cliffhanger! This ghost is ready for whatever you got.Īfter all, there’s only one way I want this to end-’til death do us part. And knowing her, she’s completely up to the task.īut I’m a man on a mission, and I’ve got everything riding on this. We’ve already got fifteen of those between us.Īs it stands, she’ll want to kill me as soon as she lays eyes on me. That’s exactly what I am, but I can’t stay away from Magnolia Marie Maison for one more day, let alone another year. The song has a reggae rock feel, and a driving drum rhythm.The thing about ghosts is they’re supposed to stay dead. In 2010, Sony Music released a remix version of the song in the album Viva Elvis, an album used for the Presley show of Cirque du Soleil. The song also states that King Creole played from a well-rounded song repertoire, and would play light, dark, serious, and nonsense music. It can be inferred from the song that King Creole used an electric guitar, since the song mentions string bending and rock-and-roll, a genre not usually played as lead on the acoustic guitar.

It is said in the song that he 'holds his guitar like a Tommy gun', which gives the notion that 'King Creole' used a grip on his guitar which involved keeping the body of the guitar close to his center of his chest, therefore holding the neck of the guitar in an extended arm, though no information is given which arm he used. The man in the song, who goes by the nickname of King Creole, is known for his style of solo guitar playing. The song is about a man of Creole descent who is a freelancing street performer in New Orleans. In 2007 the single was re-released and spent one week in the chart at No. The song was released as a single in the UK in 1958. The song is based on King Creole, a singer/guitar player from New Orleans who is proficient in all different styles of rock and roll. The song was performed by Elvis Presley and recorded in 1958, and laid foundations to a musical drama film, King Creole. King Creole is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

1958 single by Elvis Presley 'King Creole'

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