Velvet Elvis

Although area of the fertile indie rock scene focused around Lexington, KY, through the past due ’80s, Velvet Elvis focused even more on country- and pop-oriented rock than their experimentalist contemporaries, recording an EP and something album for the Hit an email label before signing a contract with Enigma in 1987. The quartet started recording with manufacturer Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Let’s Dynamic) and released a self-titled record in 1988.