Robert Gordon With Link Wray/Fresh Fish Special

Robert Gordon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: American Beat
• ASIN: B000MM0KX8
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,527 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Red Hot

2. I Sure Miss You

3. Summertime Blues

4. Boppin' the Blues

5. Sweet Surrender

6. Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll

7. The Fool

8. It's in the Bottle

9. Woman (You're My Woman)

10. Is This the Way?

11. The Way I Walk

12. Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache

13. If This Is Wrong

14. Five Days, Five Days

15. Fire

16. I Want to Be Free

17. Twenty Flight Rock

18. Sea Cruise

19. Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track)

20. Blue Eyes (Don't Run Away)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff, November 10, 2008

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Michael R. Mcadams "Mickey Mcadams" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Robert Gordon With Link Wray/Fresh Fish Special (Audio CD)

This is two great albums in one ,clasic rockabilly at it's best.As an electric bass player this offers great bass work in a rockabilly platform.This is a must for people who are just getting in to this style of music.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two Of The Best Albums From The 1970s Rockabilly Revival, July 20, 2010

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Mark Anderson (Victoria, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Robert Gordon With Link Wray/Fresh Fish Special (Audio CD)

This is a really good CD, containing the first two of Robert Gordon's four releases on RCA in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

For those who weren't around at the time, there was a rockabilly revival in the late 1970s. A lot of the bands involved in this scene were pretty forgettable and quickly faded back into well deserved obscurity after releasing an album or two.

Robert Gordon was one of the best vocalists among the 1970s rockabilly revivalists and, with his vocal talent, he did not deserve to fade into obscurity like many of his far less talented compatriots. But unfortunately he did.

The fact that he didn't achieve wider commercial success doesn't take away the fact that his four RCA releases were among the best albums of the rockabilly revival. Gordon had vocal chops on a par with many of the original 1950s rockabilly legends and innovators whose work he covers on the two albums in this CD: people like Gene Vincent (5 Days, 5 Days), Johnny Burnette(Lonesome Train), Billy Lee Riley (Red Hot, Flying Saucer Rock & Roll), Carl Perkins (Boppin' The Blues) and Eddie Cochran (Summertime Blues, 20 Flight Rock).

Unlike many of the 1970s rockabilly revivalists, Robert Gordon kept his interpretations true to the 1950s originals. He even got a legendary 1950s guitarist, Link Wray, to back him on these sessions.

If you like 1950s rockabilly, this CD is worth having. If you like this one, you'll also like the compilation of Robert Gordon's 3rd & 4th RCA releases, Rock Billy Boogie/Bad Boy.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Robert Gordon At His Best, September 12, 2009

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Matthew A. Mattero (Carbondale, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Robert Gordon With Link Wray/Fresh Fish Special (Audio CD)

This album is great with the legendary Link Wray who I liked better than Chris Spedding he was a pioneer of that wild guitar sound! Don't get me wrong Chris is a guitar genius, but this CD rocks!