🎵 AotW AOTW: JAMES BURTON (A&M SP 4293)

[LPJim]

JAMES BURTON
The Guitar Sounds Of James Burton
A&M SP 4293

This week's AOTW came about when the King himself, Elvis Presley, was too ill to use some studio time he had booked in Nashville in 1971. James Burton, among the most highly regarded guitarists in the past 40 years, worked with Elvis for the last six years of his life.
His sessions credits include Dale Hawkins ("Susie Q"), Rick Nelson ("Fools Rush In"), Leon Russell, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, John Denver, Elvis Costello and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Side One: Polk Salad Annie 3:28/ Susie Q 2:21/ Fire and Rain 3:26/ Fools Rush In 2:33/ Johnny B. Good 2:17/ I Know (You Don't Want Me No More) 2:29.

Side Two: Delta Lady 2:46/ Mistery Train 3:20/ Rock and Raunch 2:20/ Hound Dog 2:21/ Hi-Heel Sneakers 2:38/ Long Peach 2:00.

Recorded at RCA Studio in Nashville, TN/ Produced by Felton Jarvis/ Engineer: Al Pachucki/ Strings and Horns arranged by Glen Spreen/ Art Direction Roland Young/ Design by Chuck Beeson/ Photography by Jim McCrary.

Reissued on CD under it's U.K. title "Guitar Sounds of James Burton" as A&M 540 553-2 (A&M/Polygram of England) in 1997

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JB

 

[Kathy]

Recorded at RCA Studio in Nashville, TN/ Produced by Felton Jarvis/ Engineer: Al Pachucki/ Strings and Horns arranged by Glen Spreen/ Art Direction Roland Young/ Design by Chuck Beeson/ Photography by Jim McCrary.

JB

Awww, I thought Elvis had actually booked the studio time at A&M Studios; he was too ill to record, so his backing band (James Burton--who took the Lead--, Jerry Scheff, Ronnit Tutt & Glen D. Hardin) had made the album there!!! Jim McCrary took the cover shot of Burton at an L.A. Train Station, too.

Kat

...all this time I thought it was recorded at A&M...

 

[LPJim]

Did Elvis record for any other label other than RCA, with the possible exception of Sun Records in Memphis?

James Burton has recently toured with Jerry Lee Lewis, who frequents the casino circuit.
JB

 

[Kathy]

Did Elvis record for any other label other than RCA, with the possible exception of Sun Records in Memphis?

James Burton has recently toured with Jerry Lee Lewis, who frequents the casino circuit.
JB

I think Elvis only DID record with RCA and the Memphis-based Sun Records. Maybe James Burton had some ideas for a solo album and Elvis and his band happened to be in Hollywood on tour or working on a movie soundtrack of his, which he may have been too ill to do. Never the less, from what think I've heard and read, The King really did book Burton at the place on La Brea.

Kat