and The Pacers
Kick-Ass Rockabilly
Sonny Burgess and The Pacers with the two wildest and the best versions there is
Always click on pic’s.
Newport, Arkansas, USA
Born May 28, 1929; Died August 18, 2017 (aged 88), Little Rock, Arkansas
Albert Austin "Sonny” Burgess
(May 28, 1929 – August 18, 2017) was an American rockabilly guitarist and singer.
Biography Burgess was born on a farm near Newport, Arkansas to Albert and Esta Burgess. He graduated from Newport High School in 1948. In the early 1950s, Burgess played boogie woogie music in dance halls and bars around Newport. Burgess, Kern Kennedy, Johnny Ray Hubbard, and Gerald Jackson formed a boogie-woogie band they called the Rocky Road Ramblers. In 1954, following a stint in the US Army (1951–53), Burgess re-formed the band, calling them the Moonlighters after the Silver Moon Club in Newport, where they performed regularly. After advice from record producer Sam Phillips, the group expanded to form the Pacers. … Read full text here >>> Sonny Burgess
We Wanna Boogie - SUN LP 1022 [1984]