Album Notes

In the summer of 1994, I got a short letter from a cat named Pedro Serrgura who lived in Portugal. He told me that he had a rock-a-billy band called "The Tennessee Boys", and they wanted to come visit us
and try to do some recordings at our home in Denver Colorado. I had a number of doubts about their idea,
and suggested that they think it over quite seriously before making such a decision. After all, they were all very young men, and had never really been away from home before. About three weeks later we got a call from the airport saying that they were here and could we give them directions to our house! We were more than a little surprised to say the least! A couple of hours later in walked these four young hep cat looking
boys, with smiles on their faces and rock-a-billy in their hearts.

After a few days of getting adjusted to a pretty much different "world" than they had been used to,
we took them out to our favorite rock-a-billy club called Ziggies Saloon and introduced them all around to the cats and kitties who were there hangin' out. They borrowed some instruments from one of our local be-
bop bands called the Hillbilly Hellcats and the town of Denver was changed forever! Them boys took all
of us by complete storm! I mean, they flat rocked our socks off, and soon became the rock-a-billy "house
band" and played almost every weekend there. It didn't take them very long before they'd won over the hearts and minds of every Rockin' cat and kitty we had in town and a number of bands such as High Noon
(who they more than held their own with), The Roadhouse Rockers, and various other bands.

During the week, we got together almost every day and jammed and recorded. I had the pleasure
of recording a number of tracks with them myself and they also recorded a large number of their own songs as well as covers of classic rockers. This CD is (in my humble opinion) the very best of those recordings, and shows just how talented these cats really were. I've heard other recordings they had made in studios,
but none of them even came close to the power and spontaneity (which is after all what makes rock-a-billy
music what it is) of these recordings. They stayed with us in Denver for just about a year and gave us the
very best of their unique style of music, and everybody simply loved each and every one of them in return.
It broke our hearts to see them go, but as most things in life, all good things must come to an end. Denver
was never really the same after they were gone though. Although they're no longer active as a band, we
here all wish them the very best! As someone who had the opportunity to really get to know these boys,
(and who is as much of an "expert" as there can be in the field of rock-a-billy field music) I can guarantee
you'll get your shoes rocked right off'n yer' feet when you put this little gem on the ol' play and spin it!
So, put your rockin' shoes on and hold on to yer' hats cats and kitties! The Tennessee Boys are gonna "ROCK YOUR WORLD"!
Willie Lewis
(owner of the Rock-a-billy Record Company)