Setzer returned to his love of music from the 1950s, this time the jump blues of Louis Prima. He went on tour with Thorogood later that year. While this album retained some heartland rock elements, it found Setzer moving in more of a straight-ahead blues rock direction, comparable to George Thorogood's style Setzer served as co-producer along with Larson Paine, Chris Thomas and David A. His second studio album Live Nude Guitars followed in 1988. Both men had worked on albums by Mellencamp. The album was produced by Don Gehman and featured Kenny Aronoff on drums. On his first solo album, The Knife Feels Like Justice (EMI, 1986), he turned away from rockabilly and moved toward rhythm and blues ( R&B) and the heartland rock of John Mellencamp.
The Brian Setzer Orchestra performing in the White House during a visit from Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, June 29, 2006Īfter the Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, Setzer began a solo career that included working as a sideman for other acts, such as the Honeydrippers led by Robert Plant. After recording three albums with different producers, they returned to Dave Edmunds for Choo Choo Hot Fish (1992). The Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, though they occasionally reunited, recorded, and toured. Their next album, Rant n' Rave with the Stray Cats (EMI, 1983) produced the hit " (She's) Sexy + 17". Helped by their music videos on MTV, the Stray Cats became popular in America. The band returned to America and released Built for Speed ( EMI, 1982), produced again by Dave Edmunds, with songs collected from their first two albums. The second album, Gonna Ball (Arista, 1982), was less successful. Edmunds produced their debut album, Stray Cats ( Arista, 1981), which yielded two hit singles, " Stray Cat Strut" and " Rock This Town". Īfter performing in London for a few months, they met Dave Edmunds, a guitarist and record producer who shared their love of rockabilly and 1950s' rock and roll. In 1980, thinking they might have more success in England than in America, they sold their instruments to pay for airplane tickets and flew to London. The Tomcats became the Stray Cats when double bassist Lee Rocker and drummer Slim Jim Phantom joined and Gary left the band. He was a member of the Bloodless Pharaohs and the Tomcats, which he began with his brother, Gary. He found a way to hear jazz at the Village Vanguard, though as he got older he became more interested in rock, punk, and rockabilly. He started on the euphonium and played in jazz bands when he was in school. Setzer was born April 1959 in Massapequa, New York. In 1987, he made a cameo appearance as Eddie Cochran in the film La Bamba. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and returned to the music scene in the early 1990s with his swing revival band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra. Some I’m sure you know (at least I hope so) and some are very obscure gems.Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
After doing much homework, I have selected 23 of what I consider Sun Records' best recordings. Rockabilly, the musical bastard of rhythm and blues, hillbilly, country, gospel, and maybe even a little jazz sung by wild-eyed southern white boys with too much time and too little money just lookin' for trouble. For that matter, what the heck is rockabilly anyway? Sure, all of us greaser, guitar slingin' hep-cats know, but (for the most part) the general population has never even heard the word. a narrow time frame between roughly 1954 through early 1957. "Why should I record a tribute to Sun Records? And at that, narrowing in on only their rockabilly years. Out of print since 2005, this record sees Brian Setzer paying tribute to one of the greatest rockabilly labels ever, the one that arguably started it all: Sun Records. Setzer, Brian: Rockabilly Riot Volume One–Tribute To Sun Records -2LP
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