I forgot to add this disclaimer first time out: Sleepy Sundays are not necessarily sleepy.
Jason enjoyed our first selection, but confessed: “I was not expecting to be rocked this hard.”
Oh, yeah, Sleepy rocks.
Today’s selection was cut for Sun Records during a session in Nashville on July 3, 1979. It’s a cover — Sleepy does almost nothing but covers — of a tune written by Doc Pomus and Reginald Ashby.
Big Joe Turner did it first, scoring a No. 2 R&B hit in 1956. Bob Dylan also covered it on a 1995 tribute album featuring the songs of Doc Pomus.
“Boogie Woogie Country Girl,” Sleepy LaBeef, from “A Rockin’ Decade,” 1997.
Enjoy the rest of your Sleepy Sunday.
AM, Then FM 