Sonny Burns - The Devil's Disciple (CD)

Texas honky-tonk singer Sonny Burns' Second Coming from the 1960s.Exploring Sonny's career with great recordings from 1959 to the late 1960s.Presenting his TNT, United Artists, and MGM masters.Including previously unissued masters.Anyone reading about the implosion of Sonny Burns' career in the mid-50s -- when the East Texas honky-tonk singer sank from sight while his friend, label mate and sometime duet partner George Jones rocketed to stardom -- might be surprised to find out that there was a Second Coming in the 1960s. 'Devil's Disciple' picks up where Bear Family's first collection devoted to Sonny Burns, 'Too Hot To Handle,' which covered his Starday years of 1953-56, left off, exploring Sonny's recording career from 1959 to the end of the 1960s. The story of Burns' first flirtation with fame, and his at least partly self-induced fall, is the stuff of country music legend because it has been so closely linked with the rise of Jones, the most revered country singer of the post-Hank