Elvis Presley An American Trilogy BaldyHolly and NickRickard

My good friend Nick Rickard decided to pay me a visit, which meant only one thing:- time for an impromptu performance of Elvis’s beautiful ’An Amercian Trilogy’. An American Trilogy“ is a song arranged by country songwriter Mickey Newbury and made popular by Elvis Presley. It is a medley of three 19th century songs—“Dixie“, a blackface minstrel song that became the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy since the Civil War; “All My Trials“, originally a Bahamian lullaby, but closely related to African Amer