New Billy
 

It appears Billy Burnette has a new disc coming out 2/28/06. He does Oh Well and it looks like he is redoing Tear it Up.

http://www.highway-music.dk/shop/default.asp?ProductID=CKY%20229

The track listing looks like it could be a live album. He's doing "Faded Love" (a hit for Patsy Cline, but also recorded on Delaney & Bonnie's "Motel Shot"), "Bye Bye Love" (he's a huge Everly Bros. fan), and the above mentioned "Oh Well" and "Tear It Up."

All I know is I'm buying it!

According to Rick Vito (who I talked to at the NAMM show a couple of weeks ago...he'd been given a copy of the new CD by Billy earlier in the day), it's a "live-in-studio" album...there ARE overdubs, but they're minimal.

You knew about this and didn't tell us?!?! Well, I know ONE Californian guitarist who won't be getting any Christmas fruitcake!

Ok, so if I tell you that CDUniverse is having a pre-sale on Billy's album (for $12.98), does that vindicate me? :shrug:

Si, Señior D.

Whoo hoo!!!!

And here I was damn near gonna stick the possibility of a new Billy Burnette solo album in the it'll-never-happen (a.k.a. Lindsey Buckingham) category of hopes.

I can't wait to hear it!

Wow! Great News!

But it's not all new songs, of which he probably has a lot lying around now, given the fact that it's been 5 years since Are You With Me Baby.
'Memphis Blues' has been recorded by him before twice, on Paul Burlison's album Train Kept A-Rollin' and on his own 1999 album, All Night Long, which undeservedly only seems to have been distributed on a small scale back then (I remember getting my copy as one of my first online orders ever from the "album corner" of the Penguin website).
'Everything Is Broken' is a Bob Dylan song that Dylan released on his Oh Mercy album in the late 80s. Billy probably does this as a tribute to Dylan, with whom he toured for a short while some time ago.
Is there a John Fogerty song, too, amongst the cuts on the album?

Today's the day...hands in the air...who has it already?

That's the problem living over here... Yes Live 8, Royal Albert Hall etc etc BUT we have totally **** guitar shows!!! It's not fair!!!

Steve did you get to speak to Rick T?

Why won't Billy record the old standard "Yesterdays"?

:( :( :( :( :confused: :( :(

Why yes...yes I did. :) Nice guy!

I must get out to Santa Cruz some time.. :( (and stop off in Long Beach too :thumbsup: )

:wavey:

Or at least I have it ordered and will be frothing at the mouth with anticipation until it gets here.

I've only talked to him once, and I agree! Great guy. If I had the extra $$$, I'd certainly get a Model 1.