Sanford Clark - Rocks [CD]

BEAR FAMILY (CODE 7)

£16.81

Cat. no: BCD17664
Format: CD
Barcode: 4000127176646
Release Date: 09 Jun 2023
Genre: Rock

Other than Elvis, Carl, and Gene Vincent, not many rockabillies could claim a genuine national hit during the genre's mid-'50s heyday—but Sanford Clark could

His low- key vocal on The Fool, supplied by Clark's Phoenix, Arizona- based producer Lee Hazlewood, gave the deadpan lament precisely the feel that it required, Al Casey's blistering lead guitar adding its snarling rockabilly edge. Once Dot Records picked up the master and its Elvis-like fip Lonesome For A Letter for national consumption and it hit big in 1956, Sanford found himself a sudden star, touring with Perkins and Vincent and churning out more rocking product for Dot. The Fool put Lee on the map as a producer, well before he masterminded the rise
of Duane Eddy.

Bear Family's 'Sanford Clark Rocks' surveys the very best of Sanford's Dot output —Usta Be My Baby, A Cheat (both the original Dot release and the snare drum overdub version), Ooo Baby, Love Charms, Lou Be Doo, an unissued-at-the-time Cross-Eyed Alley Cat. There's also a motherlode of rarities: one-off 1961 singles for the Project and Trey labels, three sides for Warner Bros. including his original 1965 pre-Dean Martin reading of Hazlewood's Houston, and four tracks from later in the decade, notably his '66 Ramco remake of The Fool and a 1967 rendition of the Leon Payne-penned offhandedly violent It's Nothing To Me.

Sanford always made it all sound disarmingly easy and relaxed, Hazlewood doing the rest behind the board.

Tracks: Ooo Baby / Modern Romance / Love Charms / A Cross Eyed Alley Cat / The Fool (MCI / It's Nothing To Me / Nine Pound Hammer / Lonesome For A Letter / Houston / Usta Be My Baby / A Cheat (with snare overdub) / Don't Care / Lou Be Dou / Till My Baby Comes Home / Guess It's Love / Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens / Just Bluesin' / Every Minute Of The Day / Tennessee Walk / Travelin' Man / Give The Boy Love / That's The Way I Feel (Ooh Wee) / The Fool (Ramco version) / They Call Me Country / The Man Who Made An Angel Cry / Hard Feelings / Swanee River Rock / Don't Cry / Black Jack County Chain / It Hurts Me Too / A Cheat (without snare overdub)