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.\" Singer-songwriter-guitarist Dorsey William Burnette III is literally the \'Billy\' in \'rockabilly.\' Billy\'s father and uncle, Dorsey and Johnny Burnette, led the Memphis-based Rock \'n Roll Trio that helped pioneer the genre. The Trio combined the names of Billy and his cousin Rocky for the 1953 \"Rockabilly Boogie\"-making the term rockabilly a household word. Burnette Book and Mortar Record Store Billy Burnette
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.\" Singer-songwriter-guitarist Dorsey William Burnette III is literally the \'Billy\' in \'rockabilly.\' Billy\'s father and uncle, Dorsey and Johnny Burnette, led the Memphis-based Rock \'n Roll Trio that helped pioneer the genre. The Trio combined the names of Billy and his cousin Rocky for the 1953 \"Rockabilly Boogie\"-making the term rockabilly a household word. Burnette is best known for his 1988-1995 stint with Fleetwood Mac and his songwriting for such artists as Rod Stewart, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Cher, Faith Hill, Gregg Allman, Tammy Wynette, Eddy Raven & Tanya Tucker. First time on CD.