Hayden Thompson – Rock-a-billy Gal
Another awesome release from Bear Family Records (and I’m not saying that just because I worked on it). This album ranks pretty high in my iTunes play-count list. Pick up a copy and give it a spin.
CD with 48-page booklet, 35 tracks, playing time: 82 mns. – A ten-year retrospective of one of the unsung Sun Records heroes! Previously unissued Sun recordings! He was there at the beginning… watching Elvis in Mississippi in 1955… and he’s still wowing crowds at revival shows! This collection covers Hayden Thompson’s first decade of recording: Here are both sides of all five singles issued between 1954 and 1962… all of them fabulously rare, along with most of the songs unissued at the time, plus eight previously unissued versions of the much-admired and much-emulated classic rockabilly sides Hayden cut at Sun in 1956 and ’57.
