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A real cool cat, Sonny Burns

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country music

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A real cool cat

sound recording music CD

Sonny Burns

For a few brief years in the 1950s, Sonny Burns personified Texas honky-tonk music. Tall and handsome, with a powerfully emotive voice, he seemed poised at any minute to graduate from the Starday label to major label success and national stardom. Many country singers of his time portrayed themselves in song as hard-drinking womanizers, but for Burns this was no pose ? it was his life, and his wild and reckless ways probably doomed any chance he might have had at wider recognition

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