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Various - Starday Dixie Rockabilly Vol 1 & 2 (sq@TGx)
In rock & roll's early days, Texas was one of the few Southern states where the new music truly flourished. Rockabilly singers and like-minded combos sprang up in the wake of Elvis and the other Sun rockabillies who played in the state, and venues that normally booked strictly country acts embraced the new sound as well. One of these cities was Dallas with its Big D Jamboree, which gave both visiting rockers and local bands a chance to shine. These 13 tracks from the vaults of the Dallas, Texas-based Starday label document that scene with a handful of singles from that label, along with several unreleased tracks. Label owner Pappy Daily seems to have tampered very little with the output on his label, as most Starday (and his Dixie custom press label) singles exhibit an unvarnished and unbridled passion in their performances. Link Davis' "Sixteen Chicks" and Rudy "Tutti" Grayzell's "Ducktail" kicked up enough noise regionally to get covered by RCA Victor rockabilly Joe Clay as both sides of his first single for that label. Sonny Fisher's contribution here is Texas rockabilly at its most elemental, full of swagger, menace and knife-edge guitar solos on tracks like "Rockin' and Rollin'" and "Pink & Black," an ode to the genre's official colors. Link Davis checks in again with the stomping "Don't Big Shot Me," a slice of Cajun rockabilly that's exceptionally fine. Many of the local artists Daily recorded or leased masters from were also disc jockeys, with Pappy releasing sides on them to take advantage of their local popularity and the airplay that they could provide for his other releases. The most notable of these was Bill Mack, who recorded for Imperial, Starday and other labels, and his "Kitty Kat" is a classic example of the hillbilly boogie sound. Other proto-rockabilly sides are aboard with "Rock Candy Rock" by Fred Crawford and "Get Off My Toe" by Cliff Blakely being especially noteworthy. Big-ticket rockabilly classics come in the form of Benny Joy's "Spin the Bottle" and Groovey Joe Poovey's ode to Jerry Lee Lewis, "Ten Long Fingers (On 88 Keys)," awith Poovey also represented by two unissued tracks, "Careful Baby" and the doo wop-styled "Luella." Although this compilation is somewhat hampered by its short running time and lack of detailed notes, what is here is nonetheless grade-A rock & roll from its ground-floor inception.
Vol 1
1. Let's Get Wild - Rudy Grayzell
2. Find a New Woman - Arnold Parker & The Southernairs
3. Boogie Woogie All Night - Bill Willis
4. Where There's A Will (There's A Way) - Carl Trantham & The Rhythm All Stars
5. Tally Ho - Ernie Nowlin & The Blue Shadow Boys
6. The Woman I Love - Gene Terry & His Kool Kats
7. Tip, Tap & Tell Me - Gene Terry & His Kool Kats
8. Sweet Rockin' Mama - The Hi-Tombs
9. I'm Gonna Rock Some Too - The Hodges Brothers
10. Goin' Steppin' - J C Sawyer
11. I'm Doing All Right - Jerry Hanson
12. Live It Up - Joe Moon & His Stars Of Note
13. Teenage Cutie - Lucky Wray With Link & Doug Wray
14. Be-boppin' Daddy - Mack Banks & His Drifting Troubadours
15. You're So Dumb - Mack Banks & His Drifting Troubadours
16. Sweet Love - Orangie Ray Hubbard
17. Crawdad Song - Red Moore & His Rhythm Drifters
18. Dumplin' Pie - Sleepy Jeffers
19. Hobo Bop - Tommy Nelson & His Band
20. Wore To A Frazzel - Tony & Jackie Lamie & The Swing Kings
21. My Chicken Penn - Warren Robbe
22. Gosh Dog Baby - Jay Richards
23. Ten Long Fingers - Groovey Joe Poovey
24. Gotta Keep It Swinging - Eddie Skelton & The Rhythmtones
Vol 2
1. Hot Dog - Corky Jones
2. Rhythm and Booze - Corky Jones
3. Sweet Louella Aka Louella - Joe Poovey
4. My Life's Ambition - Joe Poovey
5. Careful Baby - Joe Poovey
6. Move Around - Joe Poovey
7. Three Little Wishes - Jimmy Lee
8. Dance Me to Death - The Hi-Liters
9. Big Bad Wolf - The Hi-Liters
10. Bop Bobby Sox Bop - Alton Guyon
11. Coffee Baby - Alton Guyon
12. Got Another Baby - Lucky Wray
13. Whatcha Say Honey? - Lucky Wray
14. Danglin' On A String - Tommy Nelson & Band
15. Honky Tonk Stomp - Hal Payne
16. Sugar Buggar - Fuzzy Whitener
17. I Want My Baby - The Starfires
18. Dancing To The Rhythm Of A Rock 'N' Roll Band - Eddie Seacrist & The Rolling Rockets
19. The Cats Were Jumpin' - John Worthan
20. Baby, I'll Never Let You Go - The Love Brothers
