Sonny Burgess
USA
Born: 28 May 1931
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Pop/Rock
Styles: Rockabilly, Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots
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Sonny Burgess is one of the wildest rockers to record for the legendary Sun label in Memphis. He and his band the Pacers came out of Newport, AR, with a hard-rocking style that, unlike that of most rockabillies, owed little to nothing in the way of a stylistic debt to country music. With his red-dyed hair, matching stage suit and guitar, and wild stage performances, Burgess made mincemeat of the competition on many of the early-'50s rock & roll package tours. Though his Sun releases never brought him much in the way of commercial success, his r...
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