ROBERT GORDON
Robert Gordon (born March 29, 1947) is an American musician and actor, best known as a neo-rockabilly singer. Robert Gordon grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. At the age of nine, he was greatly inspired by the Elvis Presley song “Heartbreak Hotel” playing on radio, and decided to pursue a career as a Rock & Roll musician at that young age. (More from Wikipedia)
Link Wray’s early albums and recordings are tough to locate, but I was able to find the two LP’s that he made with the self-styled bad boy of rockabilly Robert Gordon, whom he backed in the late 1970’s.
(June 2011)
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More recently, I have picked up both albums that Link Wray recorded in 1977 and 1978 with the “bad boy of rockabilly”, Robert Gordon. When they quit playing together, Wray took most of the band with him, including drummer Anton Fig, and began touring on his own. Anton Fig would later join David Letterman’s band in 1986 that was led by Paul Shaffer called The World’s Most Dangerous Band; they later added a horn section, and he still plays with what is now known more tamely as the CBS Orchestra.
(February 2013)
