The Tennessee Boys

ETCD 2031 - The Tennessee Boys - Burning Miles

In the summer of 1994, I got a short letter from a cat named Pedro Serra who lived in Portugal. He told me that he had a rock-a-billy band called "The Tennessee Boys", and they wanted to come visit us and try to do some recordings at our home in Denver Colorado. I had a number of doubts about their idea, and suggested that they think it over quite seriously before making such a decision. After all, they were all very young men, and had never really been away from home before. About three weeks later we got a call from the airport saying that they were here and could we give them directions to our house! We were more than a little surprised to say the least! A couple of hours later in walked these four young hep cat looking boys, with smiles on their faces and rock-a-billy in their hearts.

After a few days of getting adjusted to a pretty much different "world" than they had been used to, we took them out to our favorite rock-a-billy club called Ziggies Saloon and introduced them all around to the cats and kitties who were there hangin' out. They borrowed some instruments from one of our local be- bop bands called the Hillbilly Hellcats and the town of Denver was changed forever! Them boys took all of us by complete storm! I mean, they flat rocked our socks off, and soon became the rock-a-billy "house band" and played almost every weekend there. It didn't take them very long before they'd won over the hearts and minds of every Rockin' cat and kitty we had in town and a number of bands such as High Noon (who they more than held their own with), The Roadhouse Rockers, and various other bands.

During the week, we got together almost every day and jammed and recorded. I had the pleasure of recording a number of tracks with them myself and they also recorded a large number of their own songs as well as covers of classic rockers. This CD is (in my humble opinion) the very best of those recordings, and shows just how talented these cats really were. I've heard other recordings they had made in studios, but none of them even came close to the power and spontaneity (which is after all what makes rock-a-billy music what it is) of these recordings. They stayed with us in Denver for just about a year and gave us the very best of their unique style of music, and everybody simply loved each and every one of them in return. It broke our hearts to see them go, but as most things in life, all good things must come to an end. Denver was never really the same after they were gone though. Although they're no longer active as a band, we here all wish them the very best! As someone who had the opportunity to really get to know these boys, (and who is as much of an "expert" as there can be in the field of rock-a-billy field music) I can guarantee you'll get your shoes rocked right off'n yer' feet when you put this little gem on the ol' play and spin it! So, put your rockin' shoes on and hold on to yer' hats cats and kitties! The Tennessee Boys are gonna "ROCK YOUR WORLD"! Willie Lewis (owner of the Rock-a-billy Record Company)


Burning Miles

Track Listing:
1. Just Let Me Tell You
2. Crazy Crazy Lovin'
3. Burning Miles
4. I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
5. I'm Blue
6. Rock Roll & Rhythm
7. This Heart Of Mine
8. Crazy Man Crazy
9. Blue Hearted Fool
10. Draggin'
11. Rock A Billy Ball
12. Movie Magg
13. Keep It On Your Mind

ETCD 2030 - The Tennessee Boys - Live Fast, Love Hard Die Young.

This is the long awaited CD version of the now defunct Tennessee Boys 10" vinyl album released back in 1997 on El Toro Records. The Tennessee Boys are/were one of the best rockabilly bands of all time as they proved touring several times in Europe and the USA with a great success wherever they played, very often compared with Big Sandy & Fly Rite Trio and High Noon, we finally decided to release this CD due to popular demand.

The CD includes all their recordings made at Tail Studios in Sweden plus 7 tracks taken from a live radio show recording during one of their tours in Scandinavia.

Track Listings:
1: Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young (J. Allison)Central Songs
2: This Time (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
3: Rovin' Eyes (Dr. Louis Menaker) Keefer-Kinder Music
4: Wont'cha Bail Me (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
5: Tutti Frutti Pie (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
6: Rockin' an-a Boppin' (Eddie Bowers) Charlie Fith Music
7: Flat Broke Blues (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
8: Red Hot Mama (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
9: Blackberry Boogie (Ernest J. Ford) Central Songs
10: Rockabilly Ball (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
11: Carry On (The Tennessee Boys) Bop Cat Publishing
12: Roll, Rock & Rhythm (McGinnis) Leslo Music
13: This Time (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
14: Wont'cha Bail Me (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
15: Flat Broke Blues (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
16: Red Hot Mama (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
17: Blackberry Boogie (Ernest J. Ford) Central Songs
18: Dig Boy Dig (F. Hart)Central Songs
19: Good Lookin' Baby (The Tennessee Boys) Pedro Serra Music, S.P.A.
20: Teenage Blues (B. Goodwin)
21: Kitty Kat (B. Mack) Fort Knox Music 1 trio Music Co, Inc.

Tracks 1-10 y 18 - 21 Recorded at Tail Mobile Studio, Jonkoping, Sweden february 1997, Engineered by Lars Strandheim.
Tracks 11 - 17 Recorded live at KW Blomqvist R&R Show "Radio Mafia", Helsinki, Finland, Never released before.
Tracks 1 - 10 Taken from their 10" album "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" (ET-1001) on El Toro Records, Spain.
Tracks 18 - 21 Taken from split 10" album "Dig Boy Dig" (T10-5) on Tail Records, Sweden.
All the tracks for the first time on CD.


Rock, Roll & Rhythm (ET EP-501)
Side a:
Carry on
Rock, Roll & Rhythm
Side b:
Too Far, Too Gone
You Better Keep It On Your MindGot A Date

Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young (ET-1001)

This Time.mp3
Side a:
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
This Time
Rovin' Eyes
Wont'cha Bail Me
Tutti Frutti Pie
Side b:
Rockin' An-A Boppin'
Flat Broke Blues
Red Hot Mama
Blackberry Boogie
Rockabilly Ball