Cat. No. BCD 17688: CHARLIE FEATHERS ~ ROCKS. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17688.

ROCKABILLY AFICIONADOS WOULD BE AWARE THAT CHARLIE FEATHERS ROCKS AND HERE WE HAVE A 31 TRACK CD TO PROVE IT! THE ROCKING MUSIC HERE IS MOSTLY FROM THE 1950s AND 1960s BUT THERE ARE ALSO SOME LATER TRACKS TO REMIND US THAT CHARLIE FEATHERS WAS PLAYING AND RECORDING HIS OWN VERSION OF ROCKABILLY IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE FOR OVER 40 YEARS.

CHARLIE FEATHERS WAS ONE OF THE FEW ORIGINAL ROCKABILLY, COUNTRY OR ROCK'N'ROLL PERFORMERS WHO REALLY DID HAVE AN IMMEDIATELY RECOGNISABLE STYLE. HIS ROCK WAS NOT THE SAME AS ANYONE ELSE'S. IT WAS MORE COUNTRY, YET ALSO MORE BLUESY AND WITH A PULSE OF ITS OWN. HIS MUSIC WAS MORE ABOUT RHYTHM THAN ANYTHING AND HIS VOCALS WERE NORMALLY DISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE FIRST LINE AS HE MOVED FROM TENOR TO SOARING TENOR WITH SCAT EXCLAMATIONS, TO DEEPER REFLECTIVE MOANS AND MUMBLES. CHARLIE ONLY HAD A SHORT PERIOD OF LIMITED SUCCESS IN THE 1950s BUT HE MADE HIS MUSIC AND REPUTATION ON ICONIC LABELS SUCH AS FLIP, SUN, METEOR AND KING. THEN HE MORE OR LESS DISAPPEARED FROM VIEW, TO BE REDISCOVERED IN THE '70s ROCKABILLY REVIVAL AND BEYOND. THE SUCCESS OF OTHER MEMPHIS SINGERS ALWAYS ELUDED CHARLIE, WHO CONTINUED TO MAKE GOOD SMALL-COMBO SOUTHERN ROCK'N'ROLL AND HILLBILLY MUSIC ON HIS OWN TERMS. CHARLIE DIED ON AUGUST 29, 1998 OF COMPLICATIONS FROM A STROKE-INDUCED COMA. BRILLIANT ROCKABILLY ******

TRACK LISTING: Jungle Fever / The Certain Female / Stutterin' Cindy / Tear It Up / Tongue-Tied Jill (1967/69) / Gone, Gone, Gone / Rain / Frankie And Johnny / Too Much Alike / Bottle To The Baby (1956) / Everybody's Lovin' My Baby / One Hand Loose / When You Come Around / Tongue Tied Jill (1956) / Nobody's Woman / Can't Hardly Stand It / Get With It / Blue Suede Shoes / Wide River / Wild Side Of Life / Cootzie Coo / Bottle To The Baby (take 1) / One Good Gal / Wild Wild Party / When You Decide / Why Don't You / Love Never Treated Me Right / Dig Myself A Hole / Rain Keeps On Fallin' / Oklahoma Hills.

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