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  1. Oral History, Sonny Burgess reflects on his first guitar, a Gene Autry flat top he purchased for $3.25. Interview date September 23, 2006, NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Oral History Library. Burgess had two brothers and three sisters. He married Joann Adams in 1956 and they had two sons, Peyton and John.

  2. Jolie Holliday and Sonny Burgess are a Ft. Worth-based duo with a long history of music, sports, and philanthropy. Learn about their backgrounds, achievements, and collaborations in the country music scene and beyond.

  3. Aug 21, 2017 · Sonny Burgess, a rockabilly singer whose hollering vocal style and frantic, jangling guitar made him one of the most electrifying stars in the Sun Records galaxy in the 1950s, died on Friday in ...

  4. Aug 22, 2017 · Sonny Burgess, performing at the Country Music Hall Of Fame in Nashville in 2015. Rockabilly singer, songwriter and guitarist Sonny Burgess — who became one of Sun Records' stars with his ...

  5. Aug 21, 2017 · The Arkansas-born singer and guitarist recorded for Sun Records and toured with Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. He also cut an unreleased Springsteen song and was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

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  8. Aug 21, 2017 · NEWPORT, Ark. (AP) — Albert "Sonny" Burgess, who was an early pioneer of what became known as rockabilly music, has died in his native Arkansas. The Dillinger Funeral Home in Newport says Burgess died Friday in Little Rock. He was 88. Burgess was among a group of singers in the mid-1950s who mixed rhythm and blues with country and western music. The sound became known as rockabilly and ...

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