What a wonderful talent and what a tragic life. I’m sure Jerry Lee had a lot of fun times, but he also suffered terribly in his personal life. The religious fanatics that made him doubt the salvation of his soul should burn in hell themselves for doing that to a young boy. His tormented mind wouldn’t allow him to cherish Myra, and he tried to make her feel as bad about herself as he felt about himself.

Sadly, he was acting on what he was brainwashed into believing about women! How sad for both of them. The tragic loss of his brother as a child, then the loss of two sons would make a weaker person lose sanity. It is a tribute to him that he has gone on and refuses to give up. As to his marrying Myra, it was common in the rural south to marry young in those days. Loretta Lynn married at thirteen and wasn’t castigated as a horrible person!

Elvis was dishonest for sleeping with a fourteen year old Priscilla, but carefully not marrying her until she was eighteen–to avoid Jerry’s fate. At least, like Jerry said, he “plumb married the girl!

” I’ve often wondered if Elvis’s management team helped stir the pot on Jerry’s bad press just to prevent him from surpassing Elvis. Just a “conspiracy theory”, I know, but stranger things have happened. So much jealousy in show business! Anyway, I have been a fan of Jerry Lee Lewis all my life, and still wish him the best. Making mistakes is human, and sometimes we are victims of our upbringing, no matter how well meant that upbringing was. I’m sorry he has suffered so.

I believe in a merciful and loving God–I’m a Lutheran–and I have no doubt that Jerry Lee Lewis will play for all of us someday and the Lord will smile. You’ll go to Heaven, Jerry. You are already saved.

Well, its just about that time so we thought we better grab a spare moment to wish you all a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year and also to thank you all for your.

Hi Gang, Well, its just about that time so we thought we better grab a spare moment to wish you all a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year and also to thank you all for your custom over this last year. If you’re still looking for that special gift then i think maybe we’ve got what need.

It’s the Texas Box! A mammoth 10cd - 330 track Bear Family quality boxset put together by Pascal at Lenox & Micha at B-Sharp Records, gathering together the finest & rarest Texas Rockabilly, Rockers & Country Boppers. There’s no lame B Sides, no tracks that have appeared on a million other comp’s before, no poncey lavender pop nonsense, just tough, stompin’ Killer Lone Star 45’s, many of which have never been comp’d before. On top of that there is a beautiful 200 page full colour hard backed LP sized book packed full of rare & unseen pictures, label shots plus info, price guides etc. This is a very limited pressing and will never be repressed so now’s the time as it’s selling fast and everybody seems to talking about it on a certain social network. Here’s a little Youtube vid to give you an idea of what to expect..

The box set sells for £160.00 in the shop or £175.00 if you need it mailed (it’s heavy.it weighs 4.5kg!!!!!) Before we toddle off i should let you know that the new Norton releases have arrived. 9 of the El Paso Rock series “Sand Surfin’”, The JFK tribute “Tragic Songs From The Grassy Knoll”, on Grassy Green on the vinyl version plus a new Sun –Ra volume and a new LP from La La Brooks. Continuing the old Relic Lp series there’s The Golden Groups – The Best Of Norton Records Vol.s 1 & 2 which gathers together a bunch of Mad Mike fave Vocal Group Rockers. In the 45’s department, there’s a seasonal helping from the New Surfsiders plus a wild Vocal Group Rocker from the Deli-Cados, a raw 1964 Unissued Detroit Rocker by Jerry & the Del-Rays and a previously unissued 1967 Psyche/Garage 2 sider by the Purple Majesty produced by a 15 year old Joey Ramone!

Also expected today are a couple of new Jazzman 45’s too. Oh well that’ll do it for this year. Hope you all have a good ‘un and thanks again for the custom. Regards Neil, Barney, Danny, Jackie & Fernando 25th November 2013. Just arrived is the New very limited Jukebox Jam Vol.

2 double Lp (or single Cd). Super swanky gatefold paste on sleeve packed full of goodies from Dave Bartholomew, Little Willie John, Young Jessie, Bill Emerson amongst others. Don’t be slow if you need the vinyl coz its limited and will sell out pretty quickly. While i’m on the footlong front, we’ve just got another limited edition (500 only) of Motown Rhythm & Blues 1959 to 62 on Vee Tone. Compiled by Mark Lamarr and featuring 16 rare & rockin’ Detroit dancers. Comes with a download card with a bunch of bonus download only tracks too. ATLANTIC 1004 – LaVERNE BAKER – SOUL ON FIRE/ HOW COULD YOU LEAVE A MAN LIKE THIS?

COBRA 5000 – OTIS RUSH – JUMP SISTER BESSIE / SIT DOWN BABY EXCELLO 2013 - JERRY McCAIN – MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR / TRYING TO PLEASE FEATURE 3008 - LIGHTNIN’ SLIM – NEW ORLEANS BOUND/ MR. RAIN – WHO DAT?

IMPERIAL 5524 – TOMMY LOMONTE – YEAH YEAH YEAH / I’M LEAVING ORBIT 135 – OTIS REDDING – SHOUT BAMALAMA/ FAT GAL BRENT 7030 – HANK BLACKMAN & THE KILLERS – ITCHY KOO/ JOHNNY LANCE – THE BIG TRAGEDY (aka Moses Longpiece – Slide Her Under The Door) FORTUNE 5041 – EDDIE KIRK – THE GRUNT / EVERY HOUR, EVERY MINUTE Another new and very exciting arrival is a completely unknown, unheard, uncomp’d and unbelievable double whammy from Arthur Crudup. This comes from the only known/surviving ACA acetate of a session he cut for the Mississippi Champion label and its a stunner. If you love his RCA cuts like Shout Sister Shout etc then you’ll love this (“She’s My Baby”) too. This is also a limited edition pressing and comes complete with a nice period looking Crudup Champion promo postcard. New from ACE/Big Beat are three LTD 60’s Garage Punk 45 RPM reissues. There’s Zakary Thaks – She’s Got You on J-Beck, Denise – Boy, What’ll You Do Then on Wee & lastly Lawson & 4 more – Smart Bird on Ardent. All great and looking swish in hard brown card stickered sleeves.

We’ve also got some restocks of the Bellfuries – Just Plain Lonesome on 12” vinyl plus a few copies of their tour 45 too. Okay, this is a bit of a quickie news update but head over to the website and check our featured products page for the full story. I’m sure we ’ll be back with at least one more update before the full festive frolics begin.

11th September 2013 Watcha Gang, Just a quickie to let you know we've just found a bunch of older/deleted Rockabilly repro's languishing in our basement. Check out our featured products section on the website for a run down of our newly discovered goodies. They are all limited quantities so have a look as soon as you've got a mo' Also while i'm here I better let let you know that we just received the brand spanking New LP /CD from Big Sandy - What A Dream It's Been. It's a celebration of 25 great years of BS & his Flyrites. The LP is pressed on Transparent clear vinyl & comes with a very modern download card. There's is, of course the obligatory slew of R&B and Rockabilly repros that are constantly arriving so head over to our featured products for the full story on that too. Till the next update.

30th July 2013. First through the gate is three new “Exclusive” repros that arrived last week.

First up is a long over due re-re issue of Bobby Roberts monstrous 1956 Rockabilly Double Whammy “Big Sandy” b/w She’s My Woman”. This is way more than just a rehash job, Both sides have been re-mastered with much, much better sound that the old 80’s repro – this is how it was meant to sound. It’s also reissued on, what is believed to be the first pressed Darker Blue Sky label with the band credited as the Jennings Brothers. On top of that it comes with a nice period style faux distressed picture sleeve showing the only known picture of Bobby.

Jump to it because it’s selling fast and it’s a limited edition. Also new is a killer slab of early 60’s Euro Rocker by Clark Richard – Hot Rock Beat b/w Queen Of Love – HMV. This is crazy rare on original with a beat up G copy selling for over $600 on ebay recently. Hot Rock Beat was comp’d on a Desperate LP but the great flip has never been reissued before. Also new new to the repro world is Stan Gunn with his deadly Rocker “ Baby Sitter Boogie” flipped with Jack Rivers great “ Call On Me”. Also new in Rockabilly repro-land is Lee “ Red” Melson – Carmin Sue Rock – Ridgecrest which is a great Hick Rockabilly 2 sider that was originally issued as an EP but in this case has been cut down to the best two tracks with the sound benefitting from just one track per side.

Jay Brown’s Hanky Panky b/w Rockin’ The Guitar which is a fine Rockin’ Floor Filling Instro 2 sider also on the instro front is The Rollettes Orchestra with Venus Rock on the Cinch label which is yet another tough Rocker. We’ve just received 2 new 45 in the French SUN reissue series, this time round is Dean Beard – Rock Around the Town b/w the Sun cut of Rakin & Scrapin’ and on the Blues side we’ve got Pat Hare with two fine unissued Blues Rockers, Bonus Pay. And High on the flip side. Both of these releases are a strict pressing of 300 copies and come in great period style pic sleeves. Hog maw in France have got a bunch of new releases including a New volume of their Raw Meat series now as a 10” lp on Red Wax plus a reissue of volume Vol.1 now as a 10” with different sleeve and Red Wax too.

Hog maw has also issued a Live 10” from Larry Donn of a previously unissued live show from the early 60’s recorded in Arkansas and the sound is pretty great too and it’s pressed on clear gold wax. Hog Maw have just released a new 45’s Bloodshot Bill, Willie & the Bop-A-Whiles and Larry Donn. It’s been out a few weeks but if you haven’t picked up the great Double cd or single LP “Got Rockin’ On My Mind” comp then it comes highly recommended. It’s like somebody has compiled a double CD of our favourite Rockabilly tracks but with added bonus of (on the CD) previously unissued cuts of both sides of Jimmie Dale’s fantastic Starday Custom pressed 45 “ Darlin’” & “Baby Doll” and on the LP a previously unissued cut of Bobby Lollar doing Larry Donn’s “ Honey Bun”!!!! Both lp and cd are packed with info a great unseen pics too. 12th July 2013 A big hello all you music lovers out there!

We've had some great new releases come into the shop over the past month or so and it's time to catch up with them all! For RSD this year we are stocking titles from Ace/Omnivore & Jukebox Jam. Ace have two very limited vinyl only releases, the first is an EP from Memphis Rockabilly God Charlie Feathers. Recorded in late 1961 for Goldwax, this is the first appearance anywhere for a track called “The Side Wind”.

“Nobody’s Darlin.” & “Love Never Treated Me Right” have never been released in this format before and although “Deep Elm.” has seen a 45 release it’s never been reissued from the original mater tapes. Very Nice Pic sleeve too. Firstly is something pretty special, a completely unissued unheard version of “Hold Me Baby” by Starday Rockabilly God Sonny Fisher. This comes from the same session as the Alternate version of “Rockin’ Daddy” which is also the flip of this new reissue too. Another great new Repro that’s just arrived is a super rare on Original Hick Primitive Rockabilly 45 from Louisana Lannis on the obscure Snowcap label. Both sides are Fine Texas Rockabilly and feature some of the cream of the Goldstar/Starday house musicians.

We’ve also just got some restocks (the first lot went before i had time to put them on the website) of 5 great DVD’s from Jerry Chatabox. There was stunning performances from Big Sandy & the Bellfuries, The Caezars & the Rhythm Shakers, The Go Getters, Janis Martin and also the Hot Rod Hayride, Which features performances from Deke Dickerson, John Lewis Trio, Knocksville & the Slapbacks. All the DVD’s are professionally filmed and edited by the very talented Chris McGee and his band of merry men at Bop Flix films. We’ve just got in 4 new 45’s & a couple of CDs from the lovely Rollin’ Records. Free Download Indesign Portable on this page. New tunes abound from Keith Turner, The Fret-tones, Harp hootin’ extraordinaire Adam Burney, Guit Fiddlin’ extraordinaire Andy Wren. Also on the modern Rockabilly side there’s a single on Rockin' Shelby recordsfrom Mark Lee Allen.

West Coast Man b/w Oil Fields Burning features the shy and retiring Jim Jeffries on Guitar and both sides get a big thumbs up from us. Also new from the Vic-Tone label in Sweden are a couple of 45’s from Pat McGinnis & The Clip Joint Cutups (Wild Fire Willie) plus a 10” sort of lp / EP from The Western Tone Flyers. These are the most authentic sounding recordings i think i’ve ever heard, especially the Pat McGinnis which sounds like an unissued Blakenship Bros acetate! As for CD’s, the biggest seller of the last few weeks has to be the long awaited Roller Coaster Cliff Richard CD. This expands greatly on their earlier “Let Me Tell You Baby It’s Called Rock’N’Roll” 10” lp sampler of live recordings from Saturday Club, underlining that once upon a time Cliff could Rock. I suppose It also underlines how Shit Cliff is now but we all knew that i guess. The cd is a beautifully packaged double discer with great picture & info packed booklet.

Along with usual great ACE & Bear Family new goodies we’ve also just received three New Cactus cds. Blue Hen Hillbilly, House Of Cash-a-likes Vol.3 & High On The Hog Vol.8 are all definitely great and feature probably 85-90% un-reissued 45’s. What with the Olympics just round the corner, there will be nothing on the telly except people prancing around in lycra and if you live in London, you won’t be able to leave the house as it’ll be totally gridlocked, so you might as well stay in, turn down the volume on your gogglebox and load up with some new tunes. Of course If you are inspired by the Games then you could always practise your Shot Put or Discus throwing with a pile of Sting of Phil Collins records.

Anyway enough waffle, on with the news. Just arrived last week is a long overdue Repro of Clyde Arnold’s mighty I’ve Got A Baby b/w Scrounge on the San Jose Bella label. A long time Rockabilly club floor filler and crazy rare on original. Also on the Rockabilly classic front is a new repro/reissue of Johnny Burnette & the Rock’N’Roll Trio with Sweet Love On My Mind b/w Rock Therapy on a nice powder blue Coral promo.

Neither of theses sides saw the light of day as a 45 at the time and in fact Rock Therapy laid unissued till the early 70’s. We just had 3 really nice new pic sleeve 45’s in too. Jimmy Haggett – Rock Me Baby b/w Rabbit Action & Junior Parker – Feelin Good b/w Feelin’ Bad both on SUN and both in lovely authentic looking picture sleeves. Another swanky pic sleeve 45 that has just arrived is a killer early 2 sider from Eddie Cochran featuring his ‘Stage’ Brother Hank singing the great Rockabilly Bopper “I’m Ready” backed up with a vocalising Eddie on a very early attempt at “Teenage Cutie”. Very, very small quantities on these pic sleeve 45’s so grab ‘em while we’ve got ‘em.

Okay to round things out i’ll mention a couple of new Cd’s that have just arrived from the Vee Tone label. First up is the long awaited Wild Streak vol.2. Compiled by Mark Lamarr, this stunning 2 discer features another 50 storming late 50’s/Early 60’s Rockers. Every track is a bonafide Killer so need need for the skip button. Nice 8 page full colour booklet with label shots and pics. Also from Vee Tone and compiled by Lamarr is Vol. 13 of the fine R&B Humdinger series.

This is a single disc with 22 fantastic Rhythm & Blues/Black Rock’N’Roll stompers many for the first time in CD. Again an 8 page colour booklet with label shots and pics. From Vee Tone records is the first in a new series of wild late 50’s/Early 60’s Rock’N’Roll /Rockers comps called “Wild Streak”.

Compiled by our old mate Radio DJ Mark Lamarr, it’s a double discer with a nice booklet with label shots and rare pics of 50 truly killer tunes without even a hint of a duff track. Also from Vee Tone and also compiled by Mark is R&B Humdingers Vol.11. Vee Tone have picked up the Humdinger series and put Lamarr to work to dig another fantastic 22 tunes and again not a duff dittie in sight and again a nice 8 page booklet with label shots and pics. Included in the batch is a bunch of new festive 45’s. First up is an Yule tide Garagey Rockabilly stomper from Luis & the Wildfires “Who Likes Christmas Anyway?”, a menacing little dittie without a hint of Sleigh bells or Christmas cheer. The same goes for the Knights Of The New Crusade “(Christmas At) Montsegur “ which is a Garage stomper full of gloom to counteract the Festive Syrup. Sun Ra presents the Orientals covers both Holiday bases with “It’s Christmas Time” & “Happy New Year To You”.Both sides are Festive Lo-Fi Doo Wopers and polar opposite’s of the Wild Fires & Knights 45’s with lots of cheer & sleigh bells.

Sonic Charge Bitspeek Keygenguru. Also in from Norton are 4 new Lps. Battle Of Rat Fink Hill is a great collection of Primitive Early 60’s Pittsburgh Instro’s in a Link style. Del Shannon “Move It On Over” is a first time gathering of his Early/Mid 60’s Amy sides and includes a stunning unreleased Link Wray style Instrumental that, alone makes this an essential purchase!!! After decades in the recording wilderness Dave “Baby” Cortez returns in a blaze of Organ Instro Work Out glory with a fine new foot long which features Lonnie Youngblood on Sax. The Figures Of Light also return with a great New Snotty No-Fi Lp “Drop Dead”.

Literally just arrived are two new exciting repro’s. The first is a long, long overdue repop of the Jungle Exotica classic by Ganimian – Come With Me To The Casbah backed up with the crazy Oriental goof Daddy Lolo. The other isn’t strictly a repro as it was never released at the time, in fact this is it’s first time on Vinyl for this newly discovered Acetate. “Cotton Pickin’ Chicken “ by Clyde Stacy is killer from the same session as the fantastic Hoy Hoy and has got the lot! 3 Guitar Breaks, Screams, Slappin’ Bass. The flip is also unissued and a great Eddie Cochran type Teen Rocker.

New in from Rollin’ Records is the new and swanky Dollar Bill 10” lp. While stocks last we’ve got some copies on Coloured vinyl and a bonus poster too! It’s also available on Cd but not coloured vinyl of course and no poster either. There’s also a new 45 from Slim Slip & the Sliders on Rollin too.

While i’m on about Modern Rockabilly, we’ve just got in a few copies of a great new Hick Rockabilly 45 from a new band Pat McGinnis & the 3 Stars on a new label Turkish (which is from Italy.go figure). It’s one of the best new modern Rockabilly 45’s we’ve heard for awhile and at least worth a listen to via the handy sound sample up on our site. Ric Cartey & Friends – Georgia Rockers EP features Ric’s Ooh Eee & Scratching On My Screen plus John Worthan – Evalina Malony, Glenn Barber – Atom Bomb. I really can’t confirm if Glenn Barber was friends with Ric but his Atom Bomb is from Texas and not Georgia. As for John Worthan, well truth be known he never had a good word to say about Mr Cartey. All Killer Tracks and a Nice pic sleeve too. Werly Fairburn – All By Myself EP – features 5 live tracks from Louisiana Hayride plus a stunning raucous & essential version of “All By Myself” from the Big D Jamboree in Texas (which isn’t available on the accompanying CD).

Nice pic sleeve & blue marble wax and to get all the DJ’s moaning, it plays at 33 1/3 rpm. As we mentioned El Toro have a new series “.& Friends” Cd’s. The first is Ric Cartey & Friends – Georgia Rockers which is a great comp of Fine Rockabilly from the Peach State.

Disregarding Ric’s sweet Teen Ballad “Young Love”, the other 33 tracks are essential Killers. Further Volumes from Ray Harris & Rocket Morgan are promised. Also from El Toro is Werly Fairburn – My Hearts On Fire. 30 tracks from 1953 thru 1959 from Trumpet, Capitol, Columbia, Savoy & Milestone plus 5 great live tracks too.