JOHNNY BURNETTE - TEAR IT UP

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Disc 1 = SIDE A = 1. Tear It Up   2. Sweet Love On My Mind   SIDE B = 3. Your Baby Blue Eyes   4. Honey Hush   

Disc 2 = SIDE A = 1.Blues Stay Away From Me   2. Lonesome Tears In My Eyes   SIDE B = 3. If You Want It Enough   4. Touch Me

Disc 3 = SIDE A = 1. Warm Love   2. Boppin' Rosalie   SIDE B = 3. Do Baby Do   4. My Honey

Disc 4 = SIDE A = 1. Just Keep On Goin'   2. Mule Boy   SIDE B = 3. Crazy Legs   4. Wampus Cat

Disc 5 = SIDE A = 1. Settin' The Woods On Fire   2. Ballad Of The One-Eyed Jacks   SIDE B = 3. Little Boy Sad   4. Bigger Man

Disc 6 = SIDE A = 1. Me And The Bear   2. Sweet Baby Doll   SIDE B = 3. Sweet Suzie   4. What A Summer Day

Sleazy Records / SR-115

After the two wonderful boxed-sets of Gene Vincent's EPs and the one of Eddie Cochran's, Sleazy Records offers us a new marvelous box-set with 6 EPs, this time compiling, in some way, the work of Johnny Burnette, with and without the Rock'n'Roll Trio.

Regarding its contents, I believe that all songs included are great, so the selection is pretty good, no doubt about that. Among the 24 cuts included we have a little bit of almost everything: some cornerstones in Rockabilly history, such as "Tear It Up"; some Country, like in "Settin' the Woods On Fire"; demos, such as the one of "Just Keep On Goin'" (in which lead guitar is provided by Eddie Cochran himself); and so on. Note that, as you'll see in the track list above, not many of the most well known songs from Johnny Burnette have been included  and I see that as a wise choice.

The team leading this project is the very same than the one in charge of the box-sets dedicated to Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran and, as a matter of fact, the very same compliments I wrote when reviewing those other box-sets can be repeated regarding production (with Guillermo Jiménez in charge), artwork (from Francho Angás) and sleeve notes (written by Francho Angás and Rocío Cañas). Well, about sleeve notes I have to say that everything seems great until you arrive to the last paragraph on the sleeve of disc #5, where it's said that Johnny Burnette died in a car accident in Clear Lake (California) in August 1964... It's just then when your alarm buzzes as the cause of his tragic death was drowning in a boating accident. An obvious mistake but, anyway, I think it has to be considered just an anecdote when appreciating the quality of the whole work.

Brief, a new limited edition "delicatessen" from Sleazy Records and, of course, more than highly recommended, almost a must have.

The box-set contents...