LARRY COLLINS - ROCKABILLY FOREVER / BED TIME STORY GIRL (single)

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SIDE A = Rockabilly Forever (Secrew The Rest)   SIDE B = Bed Time Story Girl

Sleazy Records / SR113

More than fifty years after his glory days being the 50% of The Collins Kids along with his sister Lorrie, here we have Larry Collins back on record, with Joe Perez playing drums and Deke Dickerson playing bass. Of course, Larry Collins himself plays guitar... I suppose a double-neck one. Both songs, by the way, are also penned by Larry Collins.

On side A we have "Rockabilly Forever (Screw The Rest)", a song that is an evident tribute to those singers and groups that formed the first breed of Rockabilly pioneers by naming some of them as well as some of their most representative songs. A kind of Gene Vincent's "Story Of The Rockers", but with lots more of fury and rage. Not bad. I like it.

On the other hand, side B I feel is quite weak. "Bed Time Story Girl" is another Rockabilly, this time at a mid-tempo rhythm that I believe wants to show something, but doesn't get to do it.

For sure this 7" doesn't reach the level of the recordigs done by Larry Collins and his sister back in the 1950's, but I believe that "Rockabilly Forever" is good enough. It's good to see that (some of) the pioneers are still able to rock.

Yes, I agree: Rockabilly forever (screw the rest)!