JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO Honey Hush/Lonesome Train 78 RARE
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Description
The Johnny Burnette Trio-Honey Hush/Lonesome Train
Very, very rare 1957 Coral 78rpm Q.72227
in VERY GOOD++ Condition
with original sleeve in EXCELLENT- condition
A very respectable copy. The record displays very light surface wear and minor surface marks with no serious problems. Labels excellent. This is a nice copy of a VERY RARE record.
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I am currently listing a superb collection of 78s, including one by the Johnny Burnette Trio, 3 x Eddie Cochran 78s, 1 x Roy Hall, 1 x Ritchie Valens, and 25 of the 28 Elvis 78s, all in exceptional condition. An amazing collection, so keep an eye on my listings over the coming week!
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Elvis Presley wasn't the only one setting Memphis aflame in 1956. With Johnny Burnette beating flat-top rhythm, brother Dorsey Burnette slapping stand-up bass and Paul Burlison tearing it up on lead guitar, the Rock 'N Roll Trio were also prime innovators of Memphis rockabilly. Burlison was 26 when his band started to find fame. He'd been playing professionally for a dozen years, beginning with a wartime stint with the five-piece Memphis Hobos and with Shelby Follin in the late-'40s. During the early '50s he backed Howlin' Wolf during radio shows at KWEM in West Memphis and jammed with Dorsey and Johnny Burnette.
The unique sound of the Trio owes so much to the fuzz guitar sound, and innovative skill, of Paul Burlison. While on the road, he accidentally discovered a unique method for getting a primitive fuzz sound. "Just before a show," he recalled, "the leather strap on my blond Fender amp broke, and the amp fell to the floor. When I plugged the guitar in, it had a real fuzzy sound. I looked in the back of the amp, and one of the tubes was barely sticking in the prongs -- it was acting as a rheostat. The guitar sounded pretty good, so I left the tube the way it was. From then on, whenever I wanted to get that sound, I'd just reach back there and loosen the tube. It sounded real funky." Burlison made the most of his discovery at their July '56 session in Nashville, fuzzing out raw octave leads on their biggest single, "Train Kept A-Rollin'" backed with "Honey Hush," which came out credited to the Johnny Burnette Trio. While the Yardbirds (with Jeff Beck), Aerosmith and others have covered "Train Kept A-Rollin'," none captured the primal intensity of Johnny's possessed vocals or Paul's wildman solo.
This energy and rawness is more than evident on "Honey Hush" which has a great solo, and "Lonesome Train" where Burlison does pull-offs on the first and second strings creating a sound, and displaying skill, way ahead of his time, and really unlike anything else I have heard from the 50s. The guitar sound on "Honey Hush" would be echoed 10 years later by Jeff Beck and the Yardbirds.
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