Elvis Carden

Elvis Carden has been passionate about music for all of his adult life,  funneling his creativity through his singing, songwriting, and music-making skills. His latest CD, Life, is his 8th LP recording in a  long, illustrious continuing career. This Georgia native, born in  Atlanta and raised in the small town of Palmetto, Georgia, still  currently resides in his hometown. At the young age of 16, Elvis joined  the United States army and at 17 years old was sent off to Lie Kie,  Vietnam, where he spent more than a year fighting for his country with  the First Infantry Division before returning home to serve at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.

This patriotic multi-talented artist has been compared to Merle Haggard, and has been recognized significantly for his poems and songwriting. 

Elvis designed the world renowned Guitar House in Fayetteville, Georgia. The sole designer and builder of  the landmark, spent 16 years creating this spectacular, guitar-shaped  home. Pictures and videos of Georgia’s TV Channel 5 News coverage can be  seen on www.YouTube.com and throughout the world wide web.  

Elvis is a member of BMI, CMA, ICMA, VVA, VVMF, VF, American Legion, etc., and owns Guitar House Records Inc. (winner of “Label of the Year” in 1990). Elvis’ first recordings, “Vietnam Blues” and “Loving a Soldier”, originally  recorded in 1967, won Patriotic Song of the Year in 1990. 

In 2005, Elvis won the COMA International Male Recording Artist of the Year. 2007 was the year  Elvis received the prestigious accolade as International Poet  of the Year for “Loving a Soldier”. Elvis created the music video  honoring the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Wall in 2007, and  made music and poetry for the Vietnam Veterans Fund with his “Life of  Elvis Lloyd Carden."