This cover from Trey Privott and his band Los Coast offers a fresh take on Gillian Welch’s remorseful ode to Elvis Presley. Borrowing little more than the lyrics, Privott and his band abandon the feelings attached to Welch’s original cut and instead offer a fresh approach that adds energy, positivity, and pride that comes to life through triumphant and soulful brass instrumentation, slide guitars, and more.

Privott told The Bitter Southerner, “It’s one of my favorite songs of all time, based on the lyrics. I thought it’d be interesting to make it into a soul song since it was about Elvis and his complicated relationship with the black community. My mom never really let me listen to Elvis growing up because she thought he’d hijacked his vibe from the black rockers at the time.”

The song pays homage to Elvis, known best for shaking up the country music scene, quite literally, with dance moves that led conservative communities to denounce and decry him as a godless man. His presence became enormous over the years and soon paved a path for rock and roll, though later studies show that his musical style borrowed a great deal of influencer from African American musicians who were relatively unknown at the time.