CD Details
- Released: September 5, 1994
- Label: Bear Family
Tracks:
- 1.Rockabilly Boogie
- 2.Please Don't Leave Me - (alternate take)
- 3.Rock Therapy
- 4.Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track)
- 5.Sweet Love on My Mind
- 6.My Love, You're a Stranger
- 7.Your Baby Blue Eyes
- 8.I Love You So - (alternate take)
- 9.The Train Kept a-Rollin'
- 10.All by Myself
- 11.Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
- 12.Blues Stay Away From Me
- 13.Honey Hush
- 14.Lonesome Tears in My Eyes
- 15.I Just Found Out
- 16.Chains of Love
- 17.Please Don't Leave Me
- 18.Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track) - (alternate take)
- 19.I Love You So
- 20.If You Want It Enough
- 21.Butterfingers
- 22.Eager Beaver Baby
- 23.Touch Me
- 24.Tear It Up
- 25.Oh Baby Babe
- 26.You're Undecided
- 27.Midnight Train
- 28.Shattered Dreams
Product Description:
ROCKABILLY BOOGIE includes a 32-page booklet featuring photos, extensive liner notes, and a discography.
Johnny Burnette Trio: Johnny Burnette (vocals, guitar); Dorsey Burnette (vocals, bass); Paul Burlison (guitar).
Additional personnel includes: Thomas Grady Martin (guitar); Owen Bradley (piano); Eddie Gray, Murray M. "Buddy" Harman, Jr. (drums); Anita Kerr Singers (background vocals).
Reissue producer: Richard Weize
Recorded at Pythian Temple, New York and Bradley Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, between 1956 and 1957. Includes liner notes by Colin Escott.
A more or less complete collection of the tracks the Trio recorded during its brief (1956-57) career, this is rockabilly at its purest and, thanks to Johnny Burnette's over-the-top singing and genius guitarist Paul Burlison's innovative fretwork, its most menacing sounding. Although none of these songs was a national hit at the time, many of them--"Train Kept a Rollin'," "Lonesome Train on a Lonesome Track," "All By Myself," and, of course, the title track--functioned as the playbook for the late-'70s/early-'80s rockabilly revival spearheaded by Robert Gordon and (later) the Stray Cats. The occasional pop misfire notwithstanding--"I Love You So" is encumbered with a sappy 32-piece orchestra and cornball angelic choir--this stuff is still thrillingly loud, fast, and out of control.
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