Search - Various Artists :: That'll Flat Git It! Vol. 27: Rockabilly & Rock 'N' Roll From The Vault Of Sage & Sand Records

CD with 60-page booklet. Back in 1992, we decided that Rockabilly sounded good on CD, so we had the idea that we should create the all-time definitive Rockabilly series. Above all, Rockabilly was music recorded for 45RPM singles, so we designed a Rockabilly series label-by-label instead of artist-by-artist, and we compiled it for listening pleasure. Just the great stuff, plus a few super rarities. Every CD would be for the most part a 30 song jukebox of the finest Rockabilly ever recorded for all the great labels. We sourced the very best sounding tapes and took them to the best mastering engineers, and then we took the packaging to a new level. We adopted the catchphrase of the first Rockabilly dee-jay, Dewey Phillips, THAT'LL FLAT GIT IT, and we hired Bill Millar, who'd compiled the still-classic label-oriented Rockabilly LPs in the 1970s and 1980s, to write the notes. We looked for previously unpublished photos, and tried to find all the artists who'd never been found before. The result is a truly definitive series that now runs to over TWENTY-FIVE volumes.SAGE & SAND RECORDS operated from an upstairs office on Hollywood Boulevard near CAPITOL RECORDS, but only scored one hit in the fifteen years it was in existence. SAGE & SAND recorded an eclectic mix of hillbilly, western, and rockabilly, and the best of the rockabilly recordings are here. This is the sort of collection that sets collectors' hearts racing: Songs they've never heard of together with records they could never afford in one generously full packageâ?¦ plus the stories and photos!What about Lonnie Barron, who called himself the 'Elvis of Muttonville', and who was shot by a jealous husband just as his newest SAGE & SAND record was becoming a hit. And what about Chuck Howardâ?¦ a hard luck rockabilly singer who eventually worked with two of the Beatles? Or what about Harley Gabbard & Aubrey Holt who decided to bring their teenage cousin, Lonnie Mack, to their session, never knowing that Mack would revolutionize the electric guitar? They're all here alongside oddballs like wild men like Gene Vincent's former road manager, Whitey Pullen, or Donnie Bowser who sang blazing rockabilly from his wheelchair. Incredible stories, incredible music, incredibly restored and packagedâ?¦ just like you'd expect from BEAR FAMILY. Biographies by Colin Escott and many previously unseen photos.