Hank C. Burnette - "Red Cadillac & A Black Moustache"

Another request I've had for quite some time is "Red Cadillac & A Black Moustache". Originally done by Bob Luman on the Imperial label,
with the immortal James Burton on guitar..a guy that (together with Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup) was hugely vital in getting my own butt
off the ground as far as rock'n roll guitar was concerned, especially after he left Bob Luman's band and was handpicked to join Bob's
Imperial neighbour Rick Nelson to form one of the greatest guitar driven rock'n roll band's ever, period!! Like Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page
in the U.K. I used to drool over those fantastic solos he made on stuff like "My Babe", "It's Late", "Believe What You Say", "Shirley Lee", etc.
(the list goes on and on) and couldn't for my life figure out how the hell he was getting such a great sound, until I years later discovered that
he strung his guitars (usually Fenders) by skipping the heavy E-string and went A - D - G - B - thin E - and a super thin BANJO string of
unknown gauge as a replacement for the 'normal' thin E-string. How the heck he managed to keep those guitars in tune is still a mystery to me!
Anyway, back to my own dabble in the wonderful world of music...as some of you may remember, "Red Cadillac.." was part of my 2nd Sonet
release called "Rockabilly Gasseroonie", but the version here is a revitalised one that I did in the '80s, leaving only the vocal from the original
one and erasing the backing and adding a totally new 'back-up' with more guitars to get a fuller and more huge sound (famous U.K. DJ John
Peel once named me 'the Phil Spector of Rockabilly' and not without good reason, I must admit, ha, ha!).
My personal favourite of this classic is undoubtedly Warren Smith's SUN version, as I'm a SUN addict by heart and will always be!
Anyway, 'by popular demand', here's "Red Cadillac & A Black Moustache", with a proper mouth watering video attached. Enjoy...

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[rosietroy]

Oh yes, nearly forgot. Loved the car graphics too.........happy days.......

[burnette44]

Happy days, indeed! Cadillacs and rock'n

roll - voow!! Thanks, Rosie! Hank C.

[RockabillyHotdog]

Atlast!!!! Thank you sooooooooo much Hank =D I've been looking for this track for years now!! This tune is just great! I can't find any words for it!! Splendid!!

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[burnette44]

Yeah, you know how it is! Sometimes

you're covered in work and then suddenly

when you least expect it...voila, you finally

get some spare time to do things that you

really enjoy doing! Thanks a truckload for

the nice comments, buddy!! Hank C.

[janisperla]

Fantastic pictures! Now remember that my father was like a 1:10, good, good memories, uffff, thanks Cariño,besitos!!

[burnette44]

VOOW, Irene, don't tell me that your dad

had a Cadillac? That's awesome!! I was

thinking of buying a '59 with them big tail

fenders a few years back, but now they're

almost out of reach prize wise, so....

Thanks hon' for the comment, you're a

pearl for sure! Hugs..Hank C.

[rosietroy]

just put this on to my Facebook page and, as I said on there, thank you Hank for bringing colour into our lives with all your recordings, and wishing you a very happy Christmas...love Rosie...xxxx

[64manouche]

@rosietroy very good

[MrMamoto]

Thanks for uploading Hank

got the original lp :-)

[MrMamoto]

Just great , like the rest of his music

[Saul0052]

Love my deville dts screw jap cars

[03focussvt943]

Id give anything to live back in those days. Anything.

[BluesMan4you5909]

God I love this Song.

[jimbeauxtexas]

Yep...Sweeden's greatest Rock-A-Billy singer.

[03focussvt943]

Sick!