MOG Editorial Review

In his later years, the king of rockabilly still had it. His late-80s albums, collected on Honky Tonk Man, feature all the greatest traits of his signature sound: blues guitar licks, honky tonk songwriting, long, melodic howls, and hiccups used as mid-lyric percussion. Along with his own newer material, Feathers covers rockabilly classics by Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins here, all tracks from his generation's golden era of the '50s. His son Bubba joins him on guitar, and the tipsy-sounding rhythm section on these recordings is simply to die for. The rockabilly sound has gone in and out of fashion over the years, but Charlie Feathers proved time and time again that there's something timeless about the genre.