This is the first of a multi-volume series where Brian will pay tribute to the music that influenced him, and in turn, made him one of the most influential musical figures of the last 25 years. Here are 23 amazing rockabilly songs (some hits, some obscure gems) that helped define an era. Setzer is determined to do whatever it takes to reach as many people as possible so they too can discover the music that has gone underappreciated for too long.
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Rockabilly Riot, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Sun Records
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Rockabilly Riot, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Sun Records
Brian Setzer Manufacturer: Surfdog Records Ada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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Rockabilly
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General
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| Rock
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Roots Rock
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Retro Swing
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ASIN: B0009U7FM2 Release Date: 2005-07-26 |
Tracks:
- Red Hot
- Slow Down
- Real Wild Child
- Rockhouse
- Put Your Cat Clothes On
- Lonely Weekends
- Get It Off Your Mind
- Just Because
- Glad All Over
- Flatfoot Sam
- Rock 'N Roll Ruby
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Tennessee Zip
- Mona Lisa
- Peroxide Blonde in a Hopped Up Model Ford
- Get Rhythm
- Stairway To Nowhere
- Boppin' The Blues
- Rakin' and Scrapin'
- Sweet Woman
- Flyin' Saucer Rock and Roll
- Lonely Wolf
- Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache
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This is the first of a multi-volume series where Brian will pay tribute to the music that influenced him, and in turn, made him one of the most influential musical figures of the last 25 years. Here are 23 amazing rockabilly songs (some hits, some obscure gems) that helped define an era. Setzer is determined to do whatever it takes to reach as many people as possible so they too can discover the music that has gone underappreciated for too long.Customer Reviews:
"Suprisingly Authentic Record From Neo-Billy Kingpin Setzer!".......2007-06-18
Now, I can't help but admit that I've dug the Stray Cats since day one -you might even say that they were an early, unseen hand nudging me towards this retro rockin' lifestyle. "Rockabilly Riot! Volume One: A Tribute To SUN Records" brings Brian full circle back to those early inspirations as he headed back to the hills -the Tennessee hills actually, to record a heartfelt, sparse and authentic paean to those artists and the songs of Sam Phillips little/big studio on Union Avenue in Memphis. Using just piano, sax and acoustic guitar (when necessary) to augment the traditional "SUN" rockabilly sound (electric guitar, standup bass and simple drums), Brian has not only created a near perfect rockabilly primer, but also a heartfelt testament to the quality and timeless brilliance of SUN Records. His commitment to the album's concept was even carried over to the equipment used: strictly vintage mics and reverb/echo created by an old 1800's era water cistern found behind the house! This is a superb record that you wouldn't mind handing to a stranger or friend who wants to know what all this "rockabilly" fuss was about.
Generous quantity of material here -23 tracks! Great selection of straightforward standards and brilliant obscure-o-billy nuggets: you can't have a SUN tribute without BILL RILEY'S "Red Hot" & "Flying Saucer Rock And Roll," CARL PERKINS "Blue Suede Shoes" or JOHNNY CASH's "Get Rhythm." But what makes this album really rev right are all the rarely heard numbers like ROY ORBISON's "Rockhouse," "JACK EARL's "Slow Down," JERRY LEE LEWIS's "Real Wild Child," DEAN BEARD's "Rakin' And Scrapin'"," KENNY PARCHMAN's unissued "Get It Off Your Mind," and TOMMY BLAKE's "Flatfoot Sam" -all performed with wild abandon and informed flair by some of the best musicians in Nashville.
STAND-OUT HOT ROD TUNE: Dig the rowdy rollin' and rockin' "Peroxide Blonde In A Hopped Up Model Ford," unissued '57 track by SUN alum "Jumpin'" GENE SIMMONS. One of the coolest hot rod tracks ever, finally completed & committed to tape with a powerful `jived up' overhaul. That's Mr. Simmons himself on backup vocals and heard muttering at the end: "Think about it, killer!"
"Rockabilly Riot!" has lots of comfortable SUN covers, but also plenty of powerful surprises hidden deep under the hood. This is the album we all knew that Mr. Setzer could make if he ever got back to his roots. Now let's see if he leaves them Hollywood hills to tour in support of this rockabilly gem...!
-Del Villarreal, MOTORBILLY RADIO, del@motorbilly.com
Education in Rockabilly.......2007-01-01
**WARNING: This CD might make you search out and collect many obscure and unheard of artists in the Amazon Archives! May be hazardous to your financial health.**
I did not heed the warning and am happily collecting artists I'd never heard of.
"History of Rockabilly 101" little bit of a bore.......2006-05-24
It's not until well after you've graduated do you really appreciate the experience.
Riot seems a lot like that to me. The high level of detail in recreating some popular tunes of the 50's sounds initially interesting, but my first impression was one of disappointment. I was hoping Brian would kick it up a notch, add a little Ignition style fire into the recordings, but Mr. Setzer, like a school teacher had a certain agenda and he stuck with it. "That kind of style didn't exist in that erra," he would lecture the class.
I stick to my guns and really, really want Brian to make another over the top guitar record like Ignition, but at the same time, I have learned to appreciate this record for what it is. It is honestly a record that is unlike anything else in my collection.
I will probably begin to appreciate this record more as I grow older. For now, I never get tired of Brian's over the top mixture of jazz/blues/country/swing that has me dropping my jaw. I'm not interested in a tamer scaled down version...just yet. Maybe I will later.
So, whenever I feel like enrolling in Rockabilly school, I just pop this disc in.
A rockin' tribute .......2006-05-16
The album captures the energy and emotion of the Sun Records rockabilly classics, stays true to it, but improves on it with updated recording technology. The paradox is that the recordings are so clean, they lack a bit of the rawness of the 50's recordings.
Being a collection of covers, it has built-in limitations. When trying to pull something like this off, the artist is trapped between trying to bring something fresh to the material without straying too far from what made the songs great in the first place. Inject too much of yourself into someone else's song, and you're accused of heresy, betrayal. Introduce nothing new to the songs, and you're panned as boring and unoriginal. Setzer avoided the horns of that dilemma by revitalizing without ruining these classic songs.
Fans of the original Sun Records artists should be glad that the material is being re-introduced to the public in a very reverential way. Setzer fans should be pleased by the fire in his playing and singing. The songs are a lot of fun. Listening to this album reminded me of why early rock n' roll was so stirring, inspiring, energizing to that first generation of fans - something 50 years later we tend to take for granted.
Wow.......2006-05-12
Brian gathers a nice selection of rockabilly standards and covers them wonderfully. The Jordanaires join him on several songs, which really add to them. There isn't a song on here I don't like. I sense that Brian would have been perfectly content to have been around when rockabilly was being born.
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