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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 11 tracks. Playing time approx. 24 mns. These are among the most... more

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Joe Clay: Ducktail (CD)

1-CD with 16-page booklet, 11 tracks. Playing time approx. 24 mns.

These are among the most legendary rockabilly records of all time, and until we found him Joe Clay was one of rockabilly's great mysteries. Who was he? Where did he go? Where was he from? This set has all the answers, as well as all those incredibly rare RCA recordings and previously unissued out-takes. Songs include Get On The Right Track, Did You Mean Jelly Bean, Sixteen Chicks, Skipping Out And Sneaking In, and Cracker Jack. Wild! Really wild!

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Interpret: Joe Clay
Album titlle: Ducktail (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127155160
weight in Kg 0.115

Clay, Joe - Ducktail (CD) CD 1
01	Ducktail	Joe Clay
02	Get On The Right Track	Joe Clay
03	You Look That Good To Me	Joe Clay
04	Did You Mean Jelly Bean	Joe Clay
05	Cracker Jack	Joe Clay
06	Goodbye, Goodbye	Joe Clay
07	Sixteen Chicks	Joe Clay
08	Slipping Out And Sneaking In	Joe Clay
09	Get On The Right Track	Joe Clay
10	You Look That Good To Me	Joe Clay
11	Doggone It	Joe Clay

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"Joe Clay"

Joe Clay

In a brief recording career spanning just one solitary month in the Spring of 1956, Joe Clay cut this collection of savage, wild, primeval rockabilly music. He never came close to achieving hit status, despite an appearance on American TV's prestigious Ed Sullivan Show and his contract with Vik Records, a subsidiary of RCA Victor, was never renewed. He seemed destined to be no more than a footnote in rock 'n' roll history but the quality of his work would not allow him to be completely forgotten

By the early Eighties his old records were changing hands at alarming prices and reissues on RCA (GB) and Bear Family introduced his name to a new audience born too late to rock 'n' roll the first time round. But just who was Joe Clay and where was he to be found? Nobody even knew if he was dead or alive and European fans could only pour over the one known photo of Joe - a faded, indistinct black and white print of him standing alongside Elvis Presley at the Louisiana Hayride.

As the years passed Joe Clay acquired cult status. His music was just too good to be ignored and British promoters searched high and low for him. Eventually he was found playing in a local band in New Orleans under his real name of Claiborne Joseph Cheramie. Music had become only a sideline because Joe Clay, the snarrling rockabilly singer, now earned his living as a school bus driver, cruising the Jefferson Parish School bus route 418 through Gretna, Louisiana.

Joe's re-emergence became a major news story right across America and he was interviewed, and even photographed astride his bus, guitar in hand. They even talked of filming his life story. Promoter, Willie Jeffery, brought him to Europe where he played to capacity crowds in England, Holland and Sweden. Further tours have followed and a whole new career opened up to Joe, all because of these timeless nuggets of pure rockabilly gold. Sixteen Chicks, Ducktail, Slipping Out And Sneaking In - classic records that should be a part of everybody's collection.

Ian Wallis

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From: Mark Dillman On: 22 Feb 2022

rockabilly royalty

There are only eleven tracks on this CD but you DON'T NEED ANY MORE than this. Joe Clay recorded just nine tunes for a subsidiary label of RCA in the 1950s and they are the very definition of rockabilly, as much so as Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnett, and Ronnie Self (all of whom are well represented on Bear Family releases). Joe Clay had just two sessions for Vik, one in Houston with Hal Harris & Link Davis on guitars and one in New York with Mickey Baker on guitar. These cats will put blisters on your eardrums! They rock that hard. And they needed to in order to keep up with Joe's equally blistering singing. Especially on the New York session it sounds like there was a bare minimum of rehearsal, almost like they are winging it with the tapes rolling. There is just that much rocking tension in these tunes. Perfect example of why to not over-rehearse before recording. An absolutely perfect album of real rockabilly music.