{"id":114029,"date":"2016-02-28T08:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T13:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=114029"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:56:02","slug":"i-love-men-sonny-burgess-and-the-blasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=114029","title":{"rendered":"I Love Men: Sonny Burgess and the Blasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m4yp4OFcjJs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nWomen can rock, too. Don&#8217;t misunderstand me. But there&#8217;s something about a bunch of men going APE. SHIT. like this that makes my knees melt. Here is Sun Records artist Sonny Burgess &#8211; whose big Sun hit was &#8220;Red-Headed Woman&#8221; (you probably know it), in the current-ish day playing with one of the most kick-ass bands I&#8217;ve ever heard. Macho creative Southern DUDES. There&#8217;s something about those Southern boys, with their hair and their slick duds and their innocent aggression and their talent. Pitter-pat.<\/p>\n<p>That performance screams out of the tiny Youtube screen. The piano player alone!<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Burgess is one of the only guys &#8220;left&#8221; from those long-ago Sun Records days &#8211; outside of Jerry Lee Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women can rock, too. Don&#8217;t misunderstand me. But there&#8217;s something about a bunch of men going APE. SHIT. like this that makes my knees melt. Here is Sun Records artist Sonny Burgess &#8211; whose big Sun hit was &#8220;Red-Headed Woman&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=114029\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[2759,2753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114029"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201566,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114029\/revisions\/201566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}