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About Sonny Burgess
Hometown
Newport, AR, United States
Born
May 28, 1929
Genre
Rock
Singer and guitarist Sonny Burgess was one of the iconic figures of rockabilly. Burgess -- along with Carl Perkins, Warren Smith, and others -- helped create the rockabilly style, mixing barroom country with a rock & roll backbeat and a switchblade swagger. As one of the original artists to record for Sam Phillips' legendary Sun Records, Burgess rubbed elbows with such towering rock & roll figures as Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis. Typifying the image of the lean, mean rockabilly cat, he continued to perform to enthusiastic crowds following a career resurgence in the 1990s. ~ TiVo Staff
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