Sonny Burgess

Sonny Burgess Artist: Sonny Burgess
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 011661314429
EAN: 0011661314429
ASIN: B00000036V


Release Date: 1996-06-18

Sonny Burgess


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Tracks:

  1. If I Could I Would
  2. Tiger Rose
  3. Big Black Cadillac
  4. Six Nights A Week
  5. Hang Up The Moon
  6. Bigger Than Elvis
  7. Didn't Know Love At All
  8. Leave Your Lovin' At Home
  9. Fast Train
  10. You Tear Me Up
  11. Lookin' Out For Number One
  12. Hell Yes I Cheated
  13. Catbird Seat
  14. Fly Right On By

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Amazon.com

Nearly 40 years ago, Sonny Burgess cut some of the most exciting rockabilly singles every made for Sun Records, and even if they didn't sell very well, they have remained touchstones for collectors and revivalists ever since. When, after a 14-year layoff, he returned to live music with the Sun Rhythm Section in 1986, his raspy baritone growl and stinging lead guitar were miraculously intact. All he needed to make some more great rockabilly records were the right songs. He got those on the 1992 Hightone album, <I>Tennessee Border, and he gets some more on this self-titled album. These two titles rank with Jerry Lee Lewis's Young Blood as the best 1990s albums by the first generation of rockabilly heroes. <I>--Geoffrey Himes</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars As the back of the album claims: Burgess has still got it.......2003-08-25

It seems that some "purist" rockabilly fans aren't too high on Burgess' original stuff, seeing it as too r & b-oriented and insufficiently hillbilly-based. I've never understood that view: to me Burgess' records were the absolute wildest, and while they were perhaps not as obviously souped-up hillbilly as most of the recordings made by his Sun-label mates, there was no way Burgess could ever have been confused with the straight-laced white R 'n' B of early northeastern sax-driven bands. There was always southern-billy in his sound; it was just there in a different way than it was in most of the original rockabillies' sound.

Anyway, Burgess' southern roots come through in a more variegated way on this cd than they did on the old stuff: the basic r 'n' b framework is still there, but the tempos are slightly slower and there is more of a straight honky-tonk influence on several of the tracks than there COULD have been in the 50's. A track like Hell Yes I Cheated could easily have come from a mid-60's Johnny Paycheck session.

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  3. Welcome to the Monkey House ~ The Dandy Warhols
  4. Misadventures in Radiology ~ Andrew Morgan
  5. There's the Rub ~ Wishbone Ash
  6. Help Is on the Way ~ Duke Daniels
  7. Live... Greetings from the Flow State ~ Dishwalla
  8. Rolling Stone Presents: Classic Rock ~ Various Artists
  9. Absurd Fjord ~ The Double U
  10. Falling Lanterns ~ The Double U

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