Tail Shaking

With his gaunt good looks, Sun-Session haircut and battered stand-up bass, Canadian hillbilly rocker Ronnie Hayward could be right off a postcard from 1957. Based in Vancouver since 1984, Ronnie has been a founding member of bands such as Jimmy Roy's 5 Star Hillbillies, The Nervous Fellas, The Bughouse Five and The Yo-Dell's. With these groups and many others he toured Canada and the United States several times before forming The Ronnie Hayward Trio. He has been the opening act for Jerry Lee Lewis, KD Lang and The Pogues, played The Hemsby Festival in England twice and toured Europe seven times. He received such an enthusiastic response from the European audience that his fourth tour, originally scheduled for two months, ended up lasting more than a year. This solid studio session mixing hillbilly, rockabilly and a little country blues was presumably recorded in Sweden, as 12 of the tracks were first released there in 1997 on vinyl LP only.