Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?

John Harris on The Guardian’s CiF wants to bury one myth: that Elvis was a racist and his music was 'stolen' from black America.

My Comment:

More to the point is that people can define 'racism' almost any way they want, and saying it loudly enough about someone famous or something in the news gets them far more attention (with, however, the concomitant danger that they may be trampled in the stampede to mount the bandwagon by others equally eager to join in) than saying something reasonable, say, as in this case how the original blues and country artists lost out during the invention of rock 'n' roll.
And, yes, Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog is better. But there is also an Elvis album where he do the blues (can't remember what it is called - Reconsider Baby(?)) where he shows he could do it and do it well.