MACK STEVENS & HIS IN THE GROOVE BOYS - Ain't That Right (An Unconventional Tribute To Sun Records) - LP - Vinyl [JAN 3]

LP - 140g Black Vinyl (16 tracks).  

• Bear Family Records® is pleased to welcome Texas rockabilly ace and 'Wildman' Mack Stevens to our label!
• Mack Stevens has released more than 50 records in all formats on various labels in many countries during his long career.
• His wild stage show is legendary; he has played his heart out on the stages of nearly every major rockabilly festival in the world.
• Born in 1955, Mack grew up listening to the music of Carl Perkins, Elvis and Johnny Cash.
• Almost logically, now comes a vinyl album dedicated to the Sun label - highly individual, gritty, loud and wild, obscure stuff, no replicated hits!
• Accompanied by his exquisite band from Mack's second home Argentina, he has put his own pure, hard and distinctive stamp on every song.
• Oldie fans - hands off, this is not for you! This material is for those who want to experience power, pain and passion in every note: Rockabilly in its purest form!
• Original LP pressed on black 140-gram vinyl!

If you trust the rare published resumes, Mack Stevens was born in the mid-fifties in Corsicana, southeast of Dallas, Texas. His musical love is for original rockabilly, as it was produced at that time when he came into the world, especially in Memphis by Sam Phillips for his Sun Records label in his Sun studio.

It took a while to Mack Steven's first own release. In 1993, his debut album came out on Germany’s Eagle Records. Singles, LPs, CDs and even 78s followed for labels in France, Japan and, among others, the USA, where he was able to impress legendary rockabilly producer Ronny Weiser. Ronny released four CDs in the following three years on his Rollin' Rock label. Mack went on to record for Scana, Part, On The Hill, Hog Maw and his own Freedonia label. 

Mack Stevens has now recorded more than 500 songs, either rockabilly, hillbilly country or trashy blues. He enthusiastically collects original rockabilly records and had his own radio show, 'In The Groove'. Mack is and remains a purist. A flat note here and there or a playing mistake doesn't bother him. But he doesn't like it when guitarists think the rockabilly school started with the Stray Cats.

Mack has been married to an Argentinean since 1998. Since then, he's been shuttling between the U.S. and South America, where these brutally good recordings were made for his homage to the 1950s 'Sun' Sound.

Now, one might expect another soft-spoken and trivial album of cover versions of the great Sun hits - but not with Mack at the helm! He knows his way around the Sun Records catalog and has chosen some of the wildest and most obscure numbers for this album and his tough, often brutal and utterly emotional rehashing of the Sun story. It's wild, it packs a punch, yet exudes the charm of the originals with Mack Stevens' signature approach.
Wild, authentic - pure dramatic rockabilly with trashy blues touches!

Tracklist: 

A1        Ain't That Right [2:35]
A2        So Doggone Lonesome [2:39]
A3        Before Long Waltz [2:22]
A4        Boogie Blues [2:31]
A5        I'm Sorry, I'm Not Sorry [2:10]
A6        Call Me Anything, But Call Me [2:43]
A7        So Long I'm Gone [2:01]
A8        Weeping Blues [2:56]

B1        We All Gotta Go Sometime [2:49]
B2        Lonesome Old Jail [2:36]
B3        Everybody's Searching [2:31]
B4        Right Or Wrong [2:32]
B5        Every Night [3:03]
B6        They Call Our Love A Sin [1:35]
B7        The Time Is Right [2:00]
B8        Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle) [3:04]