Talk about your all-star crews: Here are Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana, joined by Keith Richards and The Band, with “Deuce and a Quarter.”   

Guitarist Scotty Moore and drummer DJ Fontana are among the founding fathers of rock and roll. Key players on all the early hits of Elvis Presley, they helped to shape the Sun Records sound. In 1997, Moore and Fontana again teamed up to create the all-star album, “All the King’s Men,” which included collaborations with Cheap Trick, Jeff Beck, the Bodeans, and others.

Track One on the record is this cut, with Moore and Fontana joined by Rolling Stone Keith Richards, along with Rick Danko, Levon Helm, and Garth Hudson of The Band. And on this tune, led by Helm on vocals, the diverse crew sounds like they’ve been playing together their whole lives. Written by Gwil Owen and Kevin Gordon, “Deuce and a Quarter,” of course, refers to the street slang for a Buick Electra 225. A car’s a car and that’s a fact; a deuce and a quarter ain’t a Cadillac.

Sadly, the world lost Rick Danko in 1999, not long after this record was produced, and in April of 2012, Levon Helm succumbed to cancer. But fortunately, we’ve still got all this great music. Listen to this.