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Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Charlie Feathers was a key engineer of the bridge between country music and rock & roll. This enlightening collection shows his progression from piercing hillbilly to energetic rocker, as fiddle and steel guitar get left behind in favor of the pulsing backbeat and guitar churn. No one really knows if he taught the Sun masters all they know, as he often claimed, but these recordings make that case irrelevant, since they stand very tall on their own merits. --Marc Greilsamer
According to Charlie Feathers, he taught Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Carl Perkins everything they knew only to end up owne
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Charlie Feathers was a key engineer of the bridge between country music and rock & roll. This enlightening collection shows his progression from piercing hillbilly to energetic rocker, as fiddle and steel guitar get left behind in favor of the pulsing backbeat and guitar churn. No one really knows if he taught the Sun masters all they know, as he often claimed, but these recordings make that case irrelevant, since they stand very tall on their own merits. --Marc Greilsamer
According to Charlie Feathers, he taught Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Carl Perkins everything they knew only to end up owner of a barren bank account (the voluminous CD booklet pictures a check for three cents) and a small, dead-end Memphis house clogged with recording tape. On 21 should-have-been hits recorded for six Southern labels (plus a disc of unreleased material), Feathers works his rich, high, and plaintive voice over tunes conflating the stately fiddle and winsome lap steel from country and the chugging two-beat slapback of rhythm and blues. Never one to strangle a tune, Feathers approached a song like a barracuda behind aquarium glass, swimming forward slowly, baring his teeth, riveting you with a sentient inhuman eye, then vanishing with a flick of the tail back into the murk before you can decide whether fear is the proper emotion. A unique specimen, indeed. --Andrew Hamlin
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Manufacturer: Revenant Records
Release date: 21 July 1998
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0630814020927 UPC: 630814020927
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