billy lee riley (outubro 1933-agosto 2009)no passado dia 2 de agosto morreu mais um clássico da sun records...
Billy Lee Riley is a rockabilly singer and multi-instrumentalist. An alumni of Sun Records, he was one of the most crazed, unabashed rockers that label had to offer -- in the company of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Sonny Burgess, that's saying a lot. Proficient at harmonica, guitar, bass, and drums, Riley contributed as a sideman to many a classic Sun session, and his combo the Little Green Men (most notably guitarist Roland Janes and drummer J.M. Van Eaton) in time became the Sun house band.
(...) Though never commercially successful, Riley's Sun recordings of "Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll" and "Red Hot" (...) remain landmarks of the genre.
(...) the one man who had the looks, talent and the adaptability to pull it off and didn't even come close to having a hit on Sun was Billy Riley. (...) his meister work at Sun almost runs the whole development of white artists on the label in microcosm, from raw rockin' simplicity to production chasing after then current market trends.
(...) The Best Of Billy Riley tells us that sales figures sometimes don't give the real story, because much music of tremendously high quality came from one Billy Riley. He was, as Sam Phillips himself once described him, a real rockin' mutha.
aqui ficam alguns clássicos.
billy lee riley - red hot
(aqui é acompanhado pelos mean devils)
billy lee riley - flying saucer rock'n'roll / trouble bound
(lee rocker, o contrabaixista dos stray cats, também toca na banda de apoio neste concerto)
um grande momento blues ("you gotta be kidding me" moment, segundo o deke dickerson que participou na jam)
flying saucer rock'n'roll...
well the news of the saucer been flying around
out on a walk see it over the ground
first thing I see when I saw it land
a cat jumped out and he started a band
flying saucer rock and roll
flying saucer rock and roll
I couldn't understand a thing they said
but the crazy beat just knocked me dead
well the little green men they were real hepcats
rockin' and rollin' to the crazy flats
brought out a sax and started to blow
brought out a drums and started to roll
flying saucer rock and roll
flying saucer rock and roll
I couldn't understand a thing they said
it was the crazy beat just knocked me dead
well I come outta my hidin' and started to rock
the little green men tought me how to do the bop
they were three foot high we hit a few bars
flying saucer rock and roll
flying saucer rock and roll
I couldn't understand a thing they said
it was the crazy beat just knocked me dead
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