High Noon – Flatland Saturday Night CD

High Noon – Flatland Saturday Night

- 1-CD Digipak (6-plated) with 40-page booklet, 32 tracks.
- Total playing time approx. 78 minutes.
- 32 track compilation of the Rockabilly Trio
- Purist vision with modern energy
- Extensive liner notes by Bill Smoker
- Includes complete discography
- Beautifully re-mastered for CD release
- Best sound quality for this material ever presented
- The music that ignited the contemporary rockabilly scene

In the blistering Austin, Texas summer heat of 1988, High Noon took American roots music by storm with its masterful presentation of real, string band rockabilly. Impassioned vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar, electric lead guitar, and upright slap bass. To hell with the drums, this was rock and roll played the way Elvis, Scotty and Bill had unleashed it on the world in 1954.
 
Over the next decade, High Noon, the Rockabilly Trio - Shaun Young, Kevin Smith and Sean Mencher - put plenty of sweat into their "back to the beginning" sound. The band seized every opportunity to perform, honing their craft from Austin's clubs and honky tonks to farmer's markets. The band proved the power of great songs played by guys with an encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll, hillbilly, and rhythm & blues. Suddenly, rockabilly was new again.
 
Flatland Saturday Night is cherry-picked from High Noon's three Goofin' Records long players. Listen to the title track, Rock Too Slow, I’m Not Blue and Stranger Things and you'll instantly understand High Noon's important contribution to the all-time rockabilly canon. And if you don't find yourself dancing and singing along, you need to see a doctor.
 
Every track included on the collection is played with intensity and attitude. The High Noon boys proved who they were on their first foray into the studio, knocking out their 11 song debut LP (select cuts presented here) in four hours. Later, on the road through Tennessee, the trio tracked down Scotty Moore for an in-person discussion of how the Sun Studio sounds were developed. Then they made them their own.
 
From 1988 to 1996, from Helotes to Helsinki, Texarkana to Tokyo, High Noon rocked the world. They joined forces with their first generation rockabilly hero Ronnie Dawson and barnstormed Carnegie Hall. They transported Conan O'Brien's NBC television studio to Monkey Beat City. Then they took a long break. They still convene when the spirit moves them, and their power still leaves audiences Glorybound. Flatland Saturday Night captures the decade when it was High Noon for rockabilly and three cats from Austin cast a long shadow…
 
Marketing notes by Tom Clifford, Washington Grove, Maryland, USA

Tracklist:
1 Glorybound 
2 Stranger Things 
3 She Forgot Her Memory 
4 When She's Good 
5 Let's Go Daddy-O 
6 Long Empty Stretch Of Highway 
7 My Ex Is Why 
8 Beautiful 
9 Rock Too Slow 
10 Rockin' Wildcat 
11 Rockin' Beauty 
12 Old Habits 
13 Flatland Saturday Night 
14 Bluebonnet Boogie 
15 Not For Nothin' 
16 Rattlesnake Man 
17 Mixed Signal Mama 
18 Fishing Hole Boogie 
19 I'm Not Blue 20 Gotta Lotta That 
21 Doggone That Cat 
22 Now You're Gonna Be Loved 
23 Comanche Moon 
24 Kiss And Tell Baby 
25 Slow Down Baby 
26 It's The Beat 
27 High On A Hill 
28 Hanging From The Old Oak Tree 
29 My Little Thrill 
30 Call Of The Honky-Tonk 
31 Quick Hand (demo) 
32 My Heart Cries Yes (demo)

Label: Bear Family Records
Released: 2015