From Elvis in Memphis Review

After the television special put him back in the room with an audience, he did the one thing nobody expected and booked a local studio with a working soul band instead of the usual Nashville session crew. The result is the only album where his taste, his voice and his material are all pointed the same way. In the Ghetto is a story song about a cycle of poverty, sung with no melodrama at all, and he had spent a decade being handed nothing this substantial.

Long Black Limousine is a man watching an ex lover come home in a hearse and it is one of the great vocal performances in American music, controlled for two verses and then let go. Any Day Now, Power of My Love and I'll Hold You in My Heart all belong. The horns and the organ are pushed forward, the arrangements breathe, and for once nobody is trying to keep him safe. Thirty two years old and completely awake.