FTD's double disc "St. Louis / Spokane" features two concerts from the short blitz tours, that Elvis undertook in March and April 1976. The sound carriers are housed in a fold-out digipak, whose design is reminiscent of the singe "For The Heart" / "Hurt". I like inside-jokes of this kind and to be honest, the singer looks much better here than on the cover of the RCA release. Follow That Dream Records issued "St. Louis / Spokane" in May 2020, but even though streams had long surpassed the sales of physical records, Sony's own collector's label didn't bother to give this one a digital outing.

Both concerts are the closing shows of the accordant tours and during both of them Elvis wore the "Chicken Rib Suit". He had ordered the outfit in the summer of 1975, but would wear it just four times in 1976. The first two usages were during the concerts on this release, the other two were during the following stint at Del Webb's Sahara Tahoe Hotel in Stateline/Nevada. After that he'd never wear the outfit again.

As usual the concerts were recorded in mono through the engineer's soundboard. The St. Louis tape sounds very good, whereas the recording made in Spokane is average. The mastering was done by Jan Eliasson.

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St. Louis/Missouri (March 22, 1976)    Spokane/Washington (April 27, 1976)