New Billy

[BLY]

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

[SteveMacD]

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!

[chiliD]

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.

[SteveMacD]

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!

[chiliD]

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:

[SteveMacD]

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.

[Miss Vicky]

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!

[billwebster]

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?

[chiliD]

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

[madformac]

According to Rick Vito (who I talked to at the NAMM show a couple of weeks ago...

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?

[David]

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

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

[chiliD]

Steve did you get to speak to Rick T?

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

[madformac]

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

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

[Miss Vicky]

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

:wavey:

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

[SteveMacD]

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

[Miss Vicky]

Anybody else get their copy yet?

Mine just arrived today and I must say that Billy is in his usual fine form. Every song is well done, though I do have to admit that I was a bit disappointed with the length of the disc. (43 minutes is not enough music after 6 years of basically nothing!!!!) After the first listen, my favorites are "Tryin' To Get Away" and his brilliant cover of the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love."

[David]

the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love."Billy has the perfect voice for that song. I think he's such an excellent singer. I wish I had his singing voice.

He started out in life as a small child, by the way.

[Miss Vicky]

What the hell? Where are all my fellow Billy fans? SteveMacD, ChiliD? Surely I'm not the only one who's received their copy so far!!!

[chiliD]

Have no fear...just got my copy last week (got Christine's In The Meantime at the same time)...have been burrowing into it before I post about it.

I never thought I'd hear a rockabilly version of "Oh Well", but here 'tis. And, I like it, too. Anyone else notice the upright bass intro to the vocal line is almost the same as the Tusk bass line?

I really like the Bob Dylan song he covers, too..."Broken" something or other. (See? That's what I mean..I need to get to where I know the album inside/out before I post).

My only real negative comment, not so much about this particular album, but about Billy in general, is that it is getting really annoying that he re-records songs for subsequent albums. Ok, so how many versions of "Tear It Up" do we really need? Not saying that this version isn't any good...it's GREAT, but not anything really different than the two or three other versions he's recorded. He'd just recorded "Memphis Blues" for his All Night Long album that he sold here on the Penguin (only has released one album in between). So, by this, he should be about ready to record yet another version of "The Bigger The Love" and/or "I'm Not Me" on his next album.

Sure, "Tear It Up" was his dad & uncle's big hit, but there are other of their tunes he could've covered instead.

[SteveMacD]

My only real negative comment, not so much about this particular album, but about Billy in general, is that it is getting really annoying that he re-records songs for subsequent albums. Ok, so how many versions of "Tear It Up" do we really need? Not saying that this version isn't any good...it's GREAT, but not anything really different than the two or three other versions he's recorded. He'd just recorded "Memphis Blues" for his All Night Long album that he sold here on the Penguin (only has released one album in between). So, by this, he should be about ready to record yet another version of "The Bigger The Love" and/or "I'm Not Me" on his next album.
And, don't forget, "Gimme You" was on "Are You With Me Baby."

Sure, "Tear It Up" was his dad & uncle's big hit, but there are other of their tunes he could've covered instead.
"Train Keep-A-Rollin'" comes to mind...

[Miss Vicky]

I totally agree about the disappointment with Billy's insistence on rerecording songs multiple times. Although I perhaps don't notice it as much as others might because my Billy collection is woefully incomplete.

I love all of Billy's covers on this one, which is no surprise since he normally does them well.

My current favorite, however, is "My Love Will Not Change." Have been known to leave it on repeat for hours on end.

[chiliD]

"Train Keep-A-Rollin'" comes to mind...

:thumbsup: VERY good choice.

Also, "Your Sixteen" (yes, the one covered by Ringo in 1973), which was a big hit for his uncle. Yeah, it's a little sappy, but I think Billy would rock it up a bit and make it cool again.

My current favorite, however, is "My Love Will Not Change." Have been known to leave it on repeat for hours on end.

Yeah, I like that one, too. From the "misheard lyric" file: First time I played it, I heard "My LUCK will not change".

[David]

Would Billy ever consider doing "Sweet Betsy From Pike"? I would LOVE to hear that!!

Billy, if you're reading this, please record some of the classic American folk songs from the 18th & 19th centuries.

[chiliD]

Would Billy ever consider doing "Sweet Betsy From Pike"?

I dunno about Billy, but I think it wouldn't take much to get Dylan to.

[SteveMacD]

My only real negative comment, not so much about this particular album, but about Billy in general, is that it is getting really annoying that he re-records songs for subsequent albums.
BTW, can't we also say the same is true of Bob?