CHARLIE FEATHERS
Charlie Feathers (June 12, 1932 – August 29, 1998) was an American country music and rockabilly musician. Feathers was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and recorded a string of popular singles like “Peepin’ Eyes”, “Defrost Your Heart”, “Tongue-Tied Jill”, and “Bottle to the Baby” on Sun Records, Meteor and King Records in the 1950’s. He got his name on one of Elvis’ Sun records, “I Forgot To Remember To Forget” when the writer Stan Kesler asked him to record a demo of the song. (More from Wikipedia)
I had heard the most successful of Hasil Adkins’ singles on one of the Born Bad CD’s, “She Said”; and even that one song demonstrates that Hasil Adkins can burp and beep and howl his way through a song better than anyone this side of Charlie Feathers (he is known as the “king of rockabilly” and is the co-author of one of Elvis Presley’s earliest hit songs, “I Forgot to Remember to Forget”).
(May 2011)
