Billy Burnette Billy Burnette (CD)

(Icon Classic Records) 11 tracks

On Billy Burnette's eponymous album, released by Columbia Records in 1980, the energy bubbles from every track. Burnette had been recording for nearly two decades - since childhood - but never had he recorded an album that rocked as deadly as this one. Columbia released the massive LP with a striking red-neon-on-black cover that gave Burnette his first hit single with the galloping "Don't Say No. Singer-songwriter and 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 pioneered the genre. The trio combined the names of Billy and his cousin Rocky for the 1953 "Rockabilly Boogie" and made rockabilly a household word. Burnette is best known for his time with Fleetwood Mac (1988-1995) and as a songwriter for artists such as Rod Stewart, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Cher, Faith Hill, Gregg Allman, Tammy Wynette, Eddy Raven and Tanya Tucker. For the first time on CD.