SoLost: Rockabilly Legends Honor Billy Lee Riley at the Silver Moon Club

Legendary rockabilly frontman and session player Billy Lee Riley died this summer and was honored with a benefit concert at the equally-legendary Silver Moon Club in Newport, Arkansas, which lies along the newly-dubbed Rock'n' Roll Highway.

Artists that performed at the show included many of his Sun Records labelmates as well as a host of other pioneers of rock music: Sonny Burgess and the Pacers, W.S. Holland (from Johnny Cash's and Carl Perkins' bands), Carl Mann ("Mona Lisa and "Pretend"), Ace Cannon ("Tuff"), Teddy Reidel ("Judy"), Larry Donn ("Honey Bunn"), Dale Hawkins ("Suzie-Q"), Ben "Cooter" Jones (TV's Dukes of Hazzard), Smoochy Smith (the Mar-Keys' "Last Night"), Travis Wammack ("Scratchy"), C.W. Gatlin (from Levon Helm's and Ronnie Hawkins' bands) and more.


Producer / Director: Dave Anderson Photography
Editing and Postproduction: Jonathan Childs
Motion Graphics: TJ McCoy
Music: Westrex
Executive Producer: Warwick Sabin

SoLost is an Oxford American production.

(c) 2009 The Oxford American Literary Project

Category:

Music

Tags:

• SoLost
• Oxford American
• OA
• Dave Anderson Photography
• Southern Culture
• Documentary
• Sun Records
• Memphis
• Newport Arkansas
• Silver Moon Club
• Billy Lee Riley
• Sunny Burgess
• Cooter
• Ben Jones
• Fluke Holland
• Rockabilly
• Rock 'n' Roll
• Larry Donn
• Travis Wammack
• Arkansas

[sus14333]

I was there from sweden it was one of my best days ever

[discjockeyOk]

Our HEROESSSSSSSS

[KC5E]

I was there on August 30, 2009. This was an awesome get-together. Newport never had so many big rock stars in it's history. I stayed from start to finish.

Jim St.John