Billy Burnette

First time on CD worldwide / Billy Burnette’s rawest, edgiest rockabilly on record / Former member of Fleetwood Mac / Digitally remastered by Vic Anesini. Singer-songwriter-guitarist Dorsey William Burnette III is literally the ‘Billy’ in ‘rockabilly.’ Billy’s father and uncle, Dorsey and Johnny Burnette, respectively, led the Memphis-based Rock ’n Roll Trio that helped pioneer rock & roll and influenced Elvis Presley. The Trio combined the names of Billy and his cousin Rocky for the 1953 “Rockabilly Boogie”—thus making the term rockabilly a household name. Sky-high energy leaps from every track on Billy Burnette’s eponymous 1980 album for Columbia Records. Burnette had been recording for nearly two decades—since he was a child—but he’d never made a set that rocked as lethally hard as this one. Columbia unleashed the walloping LP with an eye-catching red-neon-on-black cover, the set giving Burnette his first hit single with the galloping “Don’t Say No.”