Saturday 22 January 2011

Hank Burnette: Boppin' The Blues

The sound quality of the video is poor, however everything that is absolutely essential, as in a sine qua non, is presented with considerable gusto:



This is more commercial. That notwithstanding it is worth posting here (My apologies for the appalling accompanying photographs):



Back on form, and with Betty Boop too:











Another blogger once replied to a comment of mine, at his blog, with a dismissive 'early rockabilly' as a description of tunes such as those. There is no such thing as 'early rockabilly'. Rockabilly was popular in the USA between 1955 and 1957 and was dead before 1960. I came upon it about fifteen years or so later and have enjoyed it since then.

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