[2023-07-07] Billy Burnette "Billy Burnette" and "Gimme You" Remastered Editions (Iconoclassic)

Linda · **Posted:** Sat May 20, 2023 9:53 pm

Billy Burnette

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4M2Q5GY/?tag=imwan-20

Description
• Originally released 1980
• First time on CD worldwide
• Includes the hit single "Don't Say No"
• Remastered by Vic Anesini
• Liner notes by Bill Dahl include new interview with Billy Burnette
• Billy's rawest, edgiest rockabilly on record
• Member of Fleetwood Mac

Sky-high energy leaps from every track on Billy Burnette’s eponymous 1980 album for Columbia Records. Burnette had been recording for nearly two decades—since he was a child—but he’d never made a set that rocked as lethally hard as this one. Columbia unleashed the walloping LP with an eye-catching red-neon-on-black cover, the set giving Burnette his first hit single with the galloping “Don’t Say No.”

In addition to eight of Burnette’s original compositions and songwriting collaborations, the album also featured red-hot revivals of three classics from rock and roll’s primordial days. The album was created during an emotionally charged period for the singer. “I had just lost my dad (Dorsey Burnette) when I had done the Columbia record and didn’t know much about his rockabilly stuff, to be honest… Mae Axton told me after my dad died, ‘You never know how big the tree is until it falls.’”

Commercial response to the LP catapulted Billy to a new level.

If you love tight, hard, tough, no frills rock and roll with killer vocals, you need this album in your collection.

Tracklist
1. In Just A Heartbeat
2. Oh, Susan
3. Danger Zone
4. Don’t Say No
5. Rockin’ L.A.
6. Honey Hush
7. Rockin’ With Somebody New
8. One Night
9. Sittin’ On Ready
10. Angeline
11. Tear It Up

Lineup:
Billy Burnette – guitar & lead vocals
Kimme Gardner – bass
Chris Brosius – guitar & background vocals
Ian Wallace – drums & background vocals

Gimme You

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4LZ78CP/?tag=imwan-20

Description
• Originally released 1981
• First time on CD worldwide
• Co-produced by Barry Beckett, recorded in Muscle Shoals, and featuring the Swampers
• Remastered by Vic Anesini
• Liner notes by Bill Dahl include new interview with Billy Burnette
• 12 page booklet
• Member of Fleetwood Mac

For his 1981 Columbia encore album Gimme You, Billy Burnette stepped away from the stripped-down attack of its eponymous predecessor to incorporate a fuller sound, spiced by occasional horns and backing vocalists. He recorded the album in Sheffield, Alabama with the vaunted Muscle Shoals studio band that played on countless soul and pop smashes during its long residency: guitarist Jimmy Johnson, bassist David Hood, drummer Roger Hawkins, and keyboardist Barry Beckett, who shared production credit with Billy’s co-manager, Barry Seidel.

Why the switch of recording sites from the Los Angeles area, where his previous long-player was laid down? “Just a change of scene, the scenery,” says Billy. “I don’t think I had my band then, so doing a solo record, I fell in love with Barry Beckett. I loved Barry, and the guys down there were so great. And they were such great players.”

That previous album showcased several solo compositions from Burnette, but this time every selection but one was a collaboration with one of his songsmith friends. “I’ve always been a co-writer,” says Burnette. “I like to get with people and write.” Billy’s acclaimed co-writers on Gimme You include Mentor Williams (“Drift Away”), with whom he collaborated on four of the album’s tracks. Gimme You also introduces “The Bigger The Love (The Harder The Fall),” a goosebump-inducing ballad later recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Tanya Tucker, and recut by Burnette for his 1993 album Coming Home. Billy’s rockabilly roots come to the fore on the frantic scorcher “Gone Again” and the album’s infectious title track.

Gimme You is the perfect midpoint between Billy Burnette’s rock and country work, certain to unite fans of his wherever they came in.

Tracklist
1. Whatcha Gonna Do When The Sun Goes Down
2. Gettin’ Back (To You And Me)
3. The Bigger The Love
4. I Don’t Know Why
5. Gimme You
6. Love Ain’t Easy
7. Let The New Love Begin
8. I Don’t Wanna Know
9. Gone Again
10. Take You Around The World (In My Arms)

Lineup:
Billy Burnette – lead vocals, guitar
Jimmy Johnson, Philip Donnelly, Wayne Perkins, Duncan Cameron – guitars
David Hood – bass
Roger Hawkins – drums
Barry Beckett – keyboards
Ronnie Eades, Harvey Thompson, Phillip Humphrey – saxophone
Ava Aldridge, Cindy Richardson, Kim Morrison – background vocals

[2023-07-07] Billy Burnette "Billy Burnette" and "Gimme You" Remastered Editions (Iconoclassic)

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