Artist: Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #65 Sep-Oct 2006
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys – Turntable Matinee
Turntable Matinee is framed by “Power Of The 45″, a sprightly paean to the magical allure of music. Between the opener and its reprise, a dozen songs roll along, each shaped with the casual ease and grace of timeless jukebox favorites. Which is not to say this is backward-looking music; rather, it’s in a tradition. [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys – It’s Time
After spending most of the 1990s on Hightone Records, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys have jumped to a new label, Yep Roc. The change seemingly hasn’t affected them one bit, though; It’s Time is another solid collection of western swing and old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll from a group that is foremost among all [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #30 Nov-Dec 2000
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys Seek Darkness on the Edge of Rockabilly
Friday night has finally rolled around and droves of young people descend on the Foothill Club in Signal Hill as dusk settles on Orange County. It takes more than an hour for the line winding around the block and into the adjacent residential area to work its way through the doors. It’s a long but [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Fly-Rite Boys – Big Sandy Presents
The Fly-Rite Boys have come a long way since they were the Fly-Rite Trio, backing up Big Sandy with a fairly steady rockabilly beat. When Lee Jeffriess joined the band on steel guitar, they started drifting toward what is often referred to as Western swing, but their music owes as much to West Coast musicians [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Big Sandy – Dedicated To You
After eight years and four records with Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, vocalist Robert “Big Sandy” Williams has decided to (temporarily) set that band’s rootsy Western swing-abilly on the back burner and pay homage to two of his heretofore untended passions: early West Coast doo-wop and honkin’ R&B. And while few who have heard [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #10 July-Aug 1997
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys – Feelin’ Kinda Lucky
It is not easy to straddle musical fences the way Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys do. They may be retro down to the 1949 bus they tour the country in, but they bring western swing, hillbilly music and roots-rock raging into the last days of the 20th century. Feelin’ Kinda Lucky is Big Sandy’s [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #2 Winter 1995
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys – Learning what’s Rite from Lefty and Hank (Thompson, that is)
They travel in a 1949 Flexible bus. Their stage attire is pure Hank Thompson, circa 1955. But to think of Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys as 1990′s resurgence of Sha-Na-Na-ism would be a profound mistake. “We don’t really think about it,” says Robert Williams, aka Big Sandy, of the vintage trappings. “Our tastes have [...]
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