Presley spent 12 days at Stax in 1973 (July 21-25 and December 10-16). Elvis At Stax demonstrates an artist looking to broaden his palette and his reach and the recordings captured at those historical dates bristle with the kind of energy and dynamism that only Elvis could deliver. The proof is in the six consecutive singles that the Stax sessions produced, all of which skirted the Top 40 from 1973 to 1975. In effect, they rivaled some of the hottest streaks that Presley had charted a decade earlier.