Sanford Clark Rocks CD

Sanford Clark Rocks CD

Other than Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent, not many rockabillies could claim a genuine national hit during the genre’s mid-1950s heyday - but Sanford Clark could.
His low-key vocal on The Fool, supplied by Clark’s Phoenix, Arizona-based producer Lee Hazlewood, gave the deadpan lament precisely the feel that it required, with Al Casey’s blistering lead guitar adding its snarling rockabilly edge.
Once Dot Records picked up the master and its Elvis-like flip Lonesome For A Letter for national consumption and it hit big in 1956, Sanford found himself a sudden star, touring with Perkins and Vincent and churning out more rockin' product for Dot.
The Fool put Hazlewood on the map as a producer, well before he masterminded the rise of Duane Eddy.
Sanford Clark Rocks surveys the very best of Sanford’s Dot output - Usta Be My Baby, A Cheat (both the original release and the snare drum overdub version), Ooo Baby, Love Charms, Lou Be Doo, an unissued-at-the-time Cross-Eyed Alley Cat.
There’s also a motherlode of rarities: one-off 1961 singles for the Project and Trey labels, three sides for Warner Bros. including his original version of Hazlewood’s Houston, and four tracks from later in the decade, notably his ’66 Ramco remake of The Fool and a 1967 rendition of the Leon Payne-penned offhandedly violent It’s Nothing To Me.
Sanford Clark always made it all sound disarmingly easy, Lee Hazlewood doing the rest behind the board.