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Sonny Burns: The Devil's Disciple

1-CD DigiPac (4-plated) with 28-page booklet, 21 tracks. Total playing time approx. 56 minutes.

•   Texas honky-tonk singer Sonny Burns' Second Coming from the 1960s.
•   Exploring Sonny's career with great recordings from 1959 to the late 1960s.
•   Presenting his TNT, United Artists, and MGM masters.
•   Including previously unissued masters.

Anyone reading about the implosion of Sonny Burns' career in the mid-50s -- when the East Texas honky-tonk singer sank from sight while his friend, label mate and sometime duet partner George Jones rocketed to stardom -- might be surprised to find out that there was a Second Coming in the 1960s. 'Devil’s Disciple' picks up where Bear Family’s first collection devoted to Sonny Burns, 'Too Hot To Handle,' which covered his Starday years of 1953-56, left off, exploring Sonny's recording career from 1959 to the end of the 1960s. The story of Burns' first flirtation with fame, and his at least partly self-induced fall, is the stuff of country music legend because it has been so closely linked with the rise of Jones, the most revered country singer of the post-Hank Williams years. There is an implication in the way Burns' story is usually told that the singer somehow got a raw deal, that it might easily have been he who shot to stardom and not Jones. That it was less a raw deal than a matter of timing and commitment doesn't change the fact that Sonny Burns was one of the most talented and memorable artists of the era. And his second stab at stardom chronicled here resulted in some great recordings.

'Devil’s Disciple' begins in 1959, three years after Sonny's last Starday session, when, having in his own assessment hit rock bottom, Burns began to claw his way back onto the scene with a single for the San Antonio-based independent label TNT. Following from that record, this collections traces Burns' comeback through his 1961-63 recordings for United Artists and his final 1968 session for MGM, which was left unreleased at the time and finally sees the light of day here. Included are classic tracks like Blue House Painted White and Burns' telling recording of the title track, Johnny Bush's Devil's Disciple. Among the unissued MGM tracks from 1968 are two great Burns performances of songs written by the elusive East Tennessee country songster Jim Fagan, I Sat Down On A Bear Trap and I Left One On The Bar.

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Interpret: Sonny Burns
Album titlle: The Devil's Disciple
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5397102171543
weight in Kg 0.2

Burns, Sonny - The Devil's Disciple CD 1
01	I Sat Down On A Bear Trap	Sonny Burns
02	I Left One On The Bar	Sonny Burns
03	Leave The Leaving Up To Me	Sonny Burns
04	Spread My Wings And Fly	Sonny Burns
05	Bottom Of The Bottle	Sonny Burns
06	Leave The Door Open	Sonny Burns
07	Patches On My Heart	Sonny Burns
08	Blue House Painted White	Sonny Burns
09	Where No One Else Is Allowed	Sonny Burns
10	And Then Some	Sonny Burns
11	Take A Good Look	Sonny Burns
12	Bricks And Mortar	Sonny Burns
13	Devil's Disciple	Sonny Burns
14	I Just Slipped Your Mind	Sonny Burns
15	I'm Losing My Mind	Sonny Burns
16	Never, Never Land	Sonny Burns
17	Penny Love	Sonny Burns
18	Must I Leave It There	Sonny Burns
19	Room Next To Mine	Sonny Burns
20	Little Car Draggin' The Shoes	Sonny Burns
21	Leave The Leaving Up To Me (alt)	Sonny Burns

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Customer evaluation for "The Devil's Disciple"

From: Pierre On: 20 Sep 2017

Sehr gut

10 von 10 Punkten für diese gelungene CD

From: BF Presse On: 30 Jun 2015

vocally perfect

Record Collector July 2015 "The recordings on this CD are mostly from the early 60s, sincere and vocally perfect, they're a really solid representation of his work."

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