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Rock Billy Boogie / Bad Boy

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This includes two of rockabilly revivalist Robert Gordon's finest lp's reissued onto one great cd. Energetic and fun rockabilly songs, they sound authenticly like 1950's rock'n'roll! Great cd, great artist.

If you don't love this CD than you don't love rock'a'billy. Two hard to find classic albums on one disc for your pleasure. I've owned both these albums on vinyl while growing up in the early eighties and know they are expensive when found.This guy wasn't riding on any waves and was putting out these classice between the different rock'a'billy resurges.Classic vocals on two classic albums.

This is an excellent cd. Robert Gordon has this style down to a science. This is a great rockabilly experience.

This is a really good CD, containing the 3rd & 4th 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, 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 really good albums. 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 Conway Twitty(It's Only Make Believe), Carl Perkins (Rock Billy Boogie) and Elvis Presley (Blue Christmas).

Elvis Presley covers, you say? Don't be surprised; Robert Gordon had the vocal talent to do a very credible Elvis Presley cover. His vocals really are that good. I noticed that Robert Gordon has also released an entire album of Presley covers with guitarist Chris Spedding. I haven't heard that album yet but it could be interesting.

On this CD Gordon also does some original tributes to some of his 1950 idols. Catman is a tribute to Gene Vincent, Crazy Man Crazy is a very credible tribute to Bill Haley.

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 some of these albums. Guitarist Chris Spedding replaced Wray on Gordon's later releases.

If you like 1950s rockabilly, this CD is worth having. If you like this one, you'll also like the other compilation of Robert Gordon's 1st & 2nd RCA releases, Robert Gordon with Link Wray and Fresh Fish Special.

Say what you will about Robert Gordon and his lack of originality. I was there when it all happened and he was too cool for words for that brief moment in time before it all went south. And how cool was it that Chris Spedding played guitar in his band? What an amazing guitarist with a very enviable history! I still love listening to these two albums. They never sound dated, and the energy level is rockin'!