Sonny Burgess - Red Headed Woman download song

Classic rockabilly bopper

This is the USA I love, not all this rappy dappy plastic pop shit, this is the proper America :)

Russ Smith laying down a thumping beat shortly before moving on to become drummer in Jerry Lee Lewis's road band.

Though their music was classified as rockabilly, Mr. Burgess's band, the Pacers, owed more to the horn-driven jump R&B of the 1950s than to the more acoustic sounds of the era's country music. Sun Records founder Sam Phillips told the Rockabilly Hall of Fame that Burgess "could have been one of the greats but he never got the right break." Burgess is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

Sonny Burgess supposedly opened for Elvis back in the day. Must've been a TOUGH act to follow!

wow been a long follower and never noticed it?

I met Sonny and the Pacers last night at VIVA. Got autographs and my very own signed SUN Records plaque with Red Headed Woman as the title song. Talk about awe struck!

You bet! I wish I had a time machine so that I could see them when they were young. Sonny Burgess and the Pacers were supposed to have had a great stage show. The Pacers formed human pyramids, as can be seen on one of the photographs in my slide show. Sonny even dyed his hair red to match his guitar and clothes.

indeed. can't forget the mid-west either. and those western cats too, like duane eddy.

The raw quality of this track is what would draw people to the likes of the New York Dolls less than 20 years later.  The recording here is always just on the edge of falling apart, and a soulless person would insist it sounded like crap, but they'd TOTALLY be missing the point.  This is NOT for those people today who actually think good music is made entirely with software on a laptop.

Please someone find some video footage of these guys in the 50's! Greatest double sider ever, not just RnR era!

Not too often you hear a trumpet in Rockabilly. Mr. Burgess and the Pacers sure pulled it off! If you don't at least start tapping your feet when hearing this song, you must be dead!

See Sonny + Bruce Springsteen "Tiger rose" &This number where Sonny tells you about opening for Elvis ...he is alive and still performing

Saw them in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas last month, great show. I saw him back in the 60s at Bob King's at Swifton, Arkansas and at Turners and The Silver Moon in Newport, Arkansas.

talk about a party in the studio!