Dale Hawkins

Because next episode, we go to the room where those records were made.

Next, 1957, and a rockabilly hit by Dale Hawkins called Susie Q. It's built on a swampy, snapping guitar riff played on a Telecaster by a young guitarist named James Burton, who went on to play with Ricky Nelson and put that guitar on national television week after week.

The same year, Buddy Holly stood on the Ed Sullivan Show with a Stratocaster, and for a lot of the public, that was the first time they'd ever seen one.

Holly had bought his first Stratocaster at a music store in Lubbock, Texas, and it became so much his signature that there is one carved on his headstone.

And I think if you can't literally make it live at the time, then you have to be good at making it sound like it's live to be able to synthesize the liveness.

One of my favorite all-time... singles is Susie Cube by Dale Hawkins.

It's got like nothing on it.

So it's like guitar, bass, drums.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, my Suzy Q. Yeah, I see afros.

Dale Hawkins in 1957.

American rockabilly artist Dale Hawkins.

Nice.

Later made into a major hit by CCR.