Johnny Burnette & the Rock'n'Roll Trio

 

On Monday I featured a charity shop purchase of ballads by Johnny Burnette.

I expressed my doubts about this one and whether it was likely to be a keeper.

I said that I would compare and contrast it later in the week with the twofer Rock'n'Roll Trio/ Tear It Up. (1956/57) of which I have a copy courtesy of my brother.

For me there is clearly no contest - this one is far superior and definitely a keeper. This view was supported by Ernie who wrote Everything changed when he dropped the trio and Swiss Adam. He definitely needed the Trio. Indeed Adam was so convinced that he wrote it twice!

No contest then and I think this justifies two posts from the same artist in the same week.

Johnny Burnette & the Rock' n' Roll Trio -Lonesome Train (on a Lonesome Track)

Johnny Burnette & the Rock' n' Roll Trio - The Train Kept a Rollin' n'Roll Trio

Johnny Burnette & the Rock 'n' Roll Trio - Tear It Up

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions

 

Every three or four years whether I need to or not I find myself pulling out The Trinity Sessions by the Cowboy Junkies from 1993 from the shelves ( the blue Americana shelves since you ask) although I'm conscious that it is difficult to categorise.

I  sincerely hope that I didn't pay the £10.99 HMV sticker on the jewel case.

It is one of the great enigmas. Depending on how the mood takes you it is either one of the all time classics or just alright. This time round I find myself pretty much bang in the  middle.

I'm going for Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) and the  Hank Williams standard I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry this time round.

I'll pop back around 2029/2030 and we'll see how we are getting along.

Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)

Cowboy Junkies - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Bill Callahan

 

We were watching TV the other night when a trailer popped up during the adverts.

I've no idea what was being trailed but the accompanying music was by Bill Callahan.

Who's he ? Asked Mrs CC. I told her who he is and said I would play some of his songs for her.

I'm not sure if she'll like them but I know I  will!

Bill Callahan - The Sing

Bill Callahan - Drover

Bill Callahan - Ry Cooder

Here's Johnny

 

2026 Charity Shop Purchases #31 -Johnny Burnette - Roses Are Red/Hits and Other Favourites

It was immediately obvious that this twofer by Johnny Burnette was not going to sit neatly with my other twofer by him Rock'n'Roll Trio/ Tear It Up. (1956/57)

Despite being presented by Rock'n'Roll it is ballads all the way  from Roses  Are Red (1963) and Hits & Other Favourites (1961)

It's a huge change of style and one that I am struggling a bit with. As things stand I'm not convinced as to whether it is a keeper of not. It's not that he doesn't have a good voice it's more that I think it is wasted.

I'm going to feature the Rock'n'Roll numbers later in the week for a compare and contrast. Spoiler alert there isn't much in the way of compare but plenty of contrast

Sadly at the age of 30 his unlit fishing boat was struck by a cabin cruiser on Clear Lake in California in April 1964 so will will never know how his music would have evolved.

One from each album I think

Johnny Burnette - Lonesome Waters

Johnny Burnette - Girl Of My Best Friend

Bellshill Bands suggested by JC

 

I had reached the total of 9 Bellshill bands and was keen to reach double figures.

I was devoid of ideas but fortunately JC stepped up to the plate with three more taking it to a dozen bands which sounds like a much neater way to finish. Thank you Jim!

He went into quite a lot of detail in the comments about the three bands in question. So much so that I think I will merely cut and paste his comments as they are far more informative than anything I could come up with

You mentioned Joe McAlinden a couple of times in previous posts. He is very much a Bellshill boy, and so you could feature his own band, Linden who released two albums back in 2012 and 2015 (the former being on AED Record, the label owned and run by Edwyn Collins).

I think you could also include Superstar - another band fronted by Joe and which included Jim McCulloch among their number. 1998 album 'Palm Tree' was reissued a while back by Past Night From Glasgow.

Primary 5 are another possibility. Founded by Paul Quinn (former drummer with TFC) and another in which Jim McCulloch was involved. They released albums in the 00's

What a great way to conclude this series. And no Sheena Easton Ernie - Sorry, not sorry!

Linden -Rest & Be Thankful

Superstar - Superstar

Primary 5 - Off Course

Saturday Shuffle 162

 

You will all be familiar with the song Drift Away. It was written by Mentor Williams and has been covered by a number of singers including most famously  our cover star and Saturday Shuffle debutant Dobie Gray.

Broken Chanter is up next up - Bandcamp catalogue available here From the 2021 album Catastrophe Hits  on LNFG/Olive Grove here's David with track 7 Extinction Event Souvenir T-Shirt

To finish we travel as far back as 1970 with Canned Heat and  Let's Work Together something that CCM always subscibes  to.

We shall hopefully reconvene next Saturday for more Shuffling.

Dobie Gray - Drift Away

Broken Chanter - Extinction Event Souvenir T-Shirt

Canned Heat - Let's Work Together

Goat's Head Soup

 

George recently very kindly sent me a copy of Goats Head Soup the eleventh studio album from The Rolling Stones originally released in 1973. I must admit that it was not one that I was familiar with. Indeed the only one of the ten tracks that I was recognised  was the hit single Angie.

It may be just me but I think that many folk may have thought that it failed to live up to the classic four albums which preceded it namely Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile on Main St (1972). Let's face it any album would struggle to follow these four.

I think I may have promoted the Fantastic Four to the Fabulous Five!

George also kindly included three bonus tracks from the 2020 Deluxe version which I may well feature at a later date.

The Rolling Stones - Dancing With Mr D

The Rolling Stones -Angie

The Rolling Stones - Winter