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Robert Gordon: Robert Gordon Is Red Hot (CD)

1-CD with 12-page booklet, 25 tracks. Playing time approx. 63 mns.

Every now and again, there's a rockabilly revival. In 1977 the man of the hour was Robert Gordon. He surrounded himself with great pickers including Link Wray, Danny Gatton, and Chris Spedding and cut a mix of old and new songs that was rockabilly with a punk attitude. The 25 cuts here include The Way I Walk, Catman, Flyin' Saucer Rock'n Roll,and Red Hot. Three tracks were only ever available on a promo LP.

Robert Gordon is a paradoxical artist. 
When asked how he related to the '60s, he replied tersely that he did not. However, he also refused to be branded as a '50s revival act, pouring scorn on Sha-Na-Na and others who played music for those who simply wanted to Remember When. Robert Gordon saw himself - perhaps with some jus-tification - as a contemporary performer whose style was rooted in '50s music. 

Robert Gordon's reference points from the '50s were not the popular acts from the period but rather the proto-punk rockabillies such as Johnny Burnette, Billy Riley and Gene Vincent. It was the raw, visceral energy of a blind drunk Billy Riley hollering into the Arkansas night that Robert Gordon sought to emulate. Gordon was a product of the thriving Washington, D.C. scene that drew much of its energy from the hills of Virginia. He was born in 1947 and clearly remembers hearing Heartbreak Hotel at the tender age of nine. 

By the age of 15 he had formed a group that played in and around D.C. and suburban Maryland. After a stint in the National Guard (that saved him from a stint in Vietnam) Gordon married and went to New York in 1970. From that point the details become fuzzy as they touch on a period that Gordon obviously wants to forget. The upshot was that Gordon found himself in one of New York's first punk outfits, the Tuff Darts. "I had dropped out of music for about four years," he recalled. "I was supporting a family and when that broke up I warn' tin a very good frame of mind. The Tuff Darts were a negative kind of band and reflected the way I felt at that time. I couldn't stay with them because they weren't really play-ing the music I wanted. I didn' t want to scream my brains out. I wanted to play music." Gordon began discussions with Larry Uttal at Private Stock Records in early 1977. 

After signing with the label he was paired with Richard Gottehrer whom some will remember as the producer of Blondie, others for his role in the Strangeloves and yet others for having co-written Jerry Lee Lewis's l' m On Fire. Together, Gottehrer and Gordon came up with the idea of bringing Link Wray into the picture. Wray had also made his living playing the D.C. area for years before he struck paydirt with Rumble. Robert Gordon had counted himself among those in the audience more than once. Wray's style was grounded in the essential weirdness of southern music. "My mother was a preacher ," he recalled. "We used to sing on the street corners in Benson, North Carolina. We sang at brush meetings when they'd take trees and brush and make a house out of it. Everybody would come from all around, sing and pray all day, eat dinner on the ground. 

Then my brother had a western swing band that went under various names. We played withLash LaRue at drive-in theatres and all over." Wray served in Korea where he lost a lung to tuberculosis. He also underwent a variety of religious experiences including one in which he was hurled fifteen feet across the room by the Holy Ghost. All this before he c utR umble . By the early '70s, Wray had resurfaced in San Francisco, cutting some commendably underproduced music for Polydor and Virgin that demonstrated his continuing evolu-tion and eclec tism. It was Richard Gottehrer who brought Wray and Gordon together. "I was at Richard's house," recalled Gordon "and I was thinking about changing my name to Ray Vernon. Richard and I started talking about Vernon and Link Wray. 

He knew that Link was living in San Francisco and contacted him." Armed with Gottehrer's plane ticket, Wray arrived in New York, suspicious that he would be paired with a '50s revival act (to that point - and to this day - he had studious-ly avoided Ralph Nader styled revival shows). However, Wray found that "Robert had the rawness and freshness about him like Elvis on Sun Records. It was a new sparkfor me. I said,' Let' s do it.' " The first album was cut at Plaza Sound, New York during April 1977. It featured a cover shot of Gordon, his mouth agape like a moron time had forgotten. His music too struck a wonderful pose, especially when compared with the relentless dreariness of the then-current pop music scene. 

A version of Red Hot, clearly based on Billy Riley's reading of the song, crashed into the Hot 100 and the album went on to sell in excess of 100,000 copies. Gordon, Wray, Gottehrer and Uttal were convinced that they had stumbled upon something. Gordon was brought back into the studio to record a second album, 'Fresh Fish Special' (arcanely named after a line of dialogue in 'Jailhouse Rock'). Bruce Springsteen, who had sat in with the band during a gig at NYU, contributed an atmos-pherically sensual ballad, Fire, on which he made an unbilled guest shot as a pianist. It was released as a single; however, Gordon had the misfortune to see his version scooped by the Pointer Sisters. 'Fresh Fish Special' also featured the Jordanaires to reinforce the hitherto unspoken link to the past greatness of Elvis Presley.

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Gordon, Robert - Robert Gordon Is Red Hot (CD) CD 1
01Red HotRobert Gordon
02The FoolRobert Gordon
03I Sure Miss YouRobert Gordon
04Flyin' Saucer Rock & RollRobert Gordon
05The Way I WalkRobert Gordon
06Lonesome Train (On A Lonesome Track)Robert Gordon
07I Want To Be FreeRobert Gordon
08Rock Billy BoogieRobert Gordon
09All By MyselfRobert Gordon
10The CatmanRobert Gordon
11Wheel Of FortuneRobert Gordon
12Love My BabyRobert Gordon
13It's Only Make BelieveRobert Gordon
14Crazy Man CrazyRobert Gordon
15The Worrying KindRobert Gordon
16NervousRobert Gordon
17Sweet Love On My MindRobert Gordon
18Need YouRobert Gordon
19Someday, SomewayRobert Gordon
20Look Who's BlueRobert Gordon
21Drivin' WheelRobert Gordon
22Something's Gonna HappenRobert Gordon
23Black SlacksRobert Gordon
24Fire (live)Robert Gordon
25Red Hot (live)Robert Gordon
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"Robert Gordon"

Robert Gordon
March 29, 1947 - October 18, 2022   


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Robert Gordon 

Das Interesse des Mainstreams am Rockabilly war auf ein beunruhigend niedriges Niveau gesunken, als Robert Gordon diesem Idiom zu internationaler Bekanntheit verhalf. Mit seinem stark von Gene Vincent, Jack Scott und Billy Riley beeinflussten Gesangsstil machte Gordon die klassische Musik dieser Legenden aus den 50er Jahren für eine neue Generation von Fans interessant, die in vielen Fällen vor Gordons Auftauchen nicht einmal von ihrer Existenz wussten. Für andere war er eine Rückbesinnung auf den geliebten Rock'n'Roll ihrer Jugend, als Pomade und Zipfelhosen noch unabdingbare Modeerscheinungen waren.

 Gordon, der am 18. Oktober 2022 im Alter von 75 Jahren in Bethesda, Maryland, starb, konnte mit der Rockmusik der 60er Jahre und darüber hinaus wenig anfangen. Der am 29. März 1947 in Bethesda, Maryland, geborene Gordon hörte Elvis' unsterbliches Heartbreak Hotel im Radio, als er neun Jahre alt war, und wusste, was er mit seinem Leben anfangen wollte. In den 60er Jahren zog Gordon es vor, Shows im Howard Theater in Washington, D.C. zu besuchen, wo James Brown und Otis Redding die Massen in einen schweißtreibenden Rausch trieben, und der British Invasion zuzuhören.

Als Gordon 1970 mit seiner jungen Familie nach New York City umzog, schloss er sich als Leadsänger der Punkrock-Band The Tuff Darts an. Ihr All For The Love Of Rock And Roll und zwei weitere Songs wurden auf dem Kompilationsalbum Live At CBGB's" aufgenommen, das der blühenden New-Wave-Szene New Yorks gewidmet war. Der Produzent Richard Gottehrer, früher bei den Strangeloves und seit langem erfolgreicher Plattenproduzent, sah eine Probe der Tuff Darts und schlug vor, statt mit der Band zu arbeiten, einen Solo-Gordon mit der Gitarrenlegende Link Wray zu produzieren, dessen donnerndes Instrumental "Rumble" 1958 ein großer Hit war und das Konzept des krachenden Powerchords weithin bekannt machte. 

Gottehrer produzierte das 1977 erschienene Debütalbum Robert Gordon with Link Wray" für Private Stock, das eine interessante Mischung aus 50er-Jahre-Rockabilly-Covern aus dem Repertoire von Vincent, Riley, Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins und Sanford Clark sowie drei Originalen von Wray enthält. Gordons Wiederbelebung von Billy 'The Kid' Emersons Sun-Label-Klassiker Red Hot, in Riley-Manier und mit Wrays schmetternder Leadgitarre verziert, schaffte den Sprung in die Pop-Single-Charts. Gordon kleidete sich standhaft wie ein Rocker der 50er Jahre, komplett mit hochgestecktem Haar. 

Gottehrer, der sich diesmal die Produktionsrechte mit dem Sänger teilte, rief The Jordanaires auf den Plan, die bei Gordons 78er Private Stock-Zugabe "Fresh Fish Special" den Background-Gesang übernahmen, wobei Wray erneut seine rasanten Gitarre beisteuerte. Wieder einmal waren Remakes von Rockklassikern von Vincent, Scott, Cochran, Elvis, Johnny Burnette, Bob Luman und Frankie Ford an der Tagesordnung, zusammen mit ein paar weiteren Originalen von Link. Aber es gab auch einen Kracher: Fire" war das Werk des erfolgreichen Rockers Bruce Springsteen (der bei dem Song das Klavier spielte), und die Stimmung war um einiges moderner. Die erfolgreiche Version von Fire durch die Pointer Sisters zerstörte jede Chance, dass Gordon mit dem Thema einen Hit landen könnte.

Nach dem Misserfolg von Private Stock wechselte Robert Gordon für seine 79er LP "Rock Billy Boogie" zu RCA, und Wray war nicht mehr dabei, sondern wurde an der Leadgitarre durch den britischen Rocker Chris Spedding ersetzt. Gottehrer hatte immer noch das Sagen, und das Grundkonzept überstand den Wechsel unbeschadet. Gordon spielte Klassiker von Conway Twitty, Hayden Thompson, Burnette, Cochran, Presley, Fats Domino, Leroy Van Dyke und Joe Bennett and The Sparkletones zusammen mit einer frisch zubereiteten Hommage an Vincent, The Catman. Es wurde sein meistverkauftes Album.

Bad Boy", das von Gottehrer und Robert Gordon produziert und 1980 auf RCA veröffentlicht wurde, blieb im gleichen Rockabilly-besessenen Groove, wobei Spedding die Leadgitarre übernahm und Gordon tief in die alten Tommy Sands, Warner Mack. Roy Orbison, Bill Haley und Marty Wilde, zusammen mit mehr Burnette.

Aber auf Are You Gonna Be The One", Robert Gordons letztem RCA-Langspielplattenalbum von 1981, lag ein deutlicher Wandel in der Luft. Statt Gottehrer auf dem Fahrersitz zu haben, produzierte Robert das Album mit Lance Quinn und Scott Litt, und der Schwerpunkt lag nicht mehr auf bekannten Remakes, abgesehen von Don Gibsons Look Who's Blue. Jetzt dominieren die Originale, darunter drei Kompositionen des jungen Rockers Marshall Crenshaw. Einer von Crenshaws Beiträgen, Someday, Someway, schaffte es kurzzeitig als Single in die Pop-Hitparade. Der Gitarrenzauberer Danny Gatton aus Washington, D.C., war dieses Mal Gordons Partner an den Bünden.

Der relative Erfolg von Someday, Someway reichte nicht aus, um das Interesse von RCA an Robert Gordon Diensten aufrechtzuerhalten. 1982 wandte er sich der Schauspielerei zu und spielte zusammen mit dem Newcomer Willem Dafoe in Kathryn Bigelows erstem Spielfilm, einem Motorrad

Motorradfilm mit dem Titel "The Loveless", der Kultstatus erlangt hat. Nach seinem Ausstieg bei RCA nahm Gordon in unregelmäßigen Abständen neue Aufnahmen auf, bis er sich 2007 mit Spedding und The Jordanaires für die Elvis-Tribute-Scheibe "It's Now Or Never" auf Rykodisc wiedervereinigte. Lanark veröffentlichte 2014 sein Set "I'm Coming Home". 

Eine Sache ist sicher: Robert Gordons lebenslange Liebe zu echtem Rockabilly hat nie nachgelassen und seine Karriere von einem Ende zum anderen bestimmt.

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Tracklist
Gordon, Robert - Robert Gordon Is Red Hot (CD) CD 1
01 Red Hot
02 The Fool
03 I Sure Miss You
04 Flyin' Saucer Rock & Roll
05 The Way I Walk
06 Lonesome Train (On A Lonesome Track)
07 I Want To Be Free
08 Rock Billy Boogie
09 All By Myself
10 The Catman
11 Wheel Of Fortune
12 Love My Baby
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14 Crazy Man Crazy
15 The Worrying Kind
16 Nervous
17 Sweet Love On My Mind
18 Need You
19 Someday, Someway
20 Look Who's Blue
21 Drivin' Wheel
22 Something's Gonna Happen
23 Black Slacks
24 Fire (live)
25 Red Hot (live)