o ETERNAL ELVIS . Oil on birch panel. 22" x 28 " NOW AVAILABLE AS A LIMITED EDITION, HAND ENHANCED CANVAS PRINT  Elvis Presley was a white southerner who singing blues laced with country and country tinged with gospel, brought together music from both sides of the color line. Elvis performed this music with a natural hip swiveling sexuality that made him a teen idol and a role model for generations of cool rebels. Elvis Presley was repeatedly dismissed as vulgar, incompetent and a bad influence. However the force of his music and image signaled to the mainstream culture it was time for a change.