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Dick Stewart (Sonny West)
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Date Posted: Wed July 06, 2022 23:23:55
FEATURED TRACK OF THE MONTH
(July 2022)
Sonny West, co-composer of Buddy Holly’s “Rave on” and “Oh Boy!”, spent much of his time in New Mexico because his parents moved there from Lubbock County, Texas in the late ‘40s. His dad was sure the world was coming to an end and believed there were a lot of rural areas with caves to hide in along with his wife, two sons, and two daughters for protection against what he believed was a coming world catastrophe. His family’s first stop was in western New Mexico near the community of El Morro.
Sonny began playing the guitar in 1951. He was fourteen. But much to his parent’s chagrin, Sonny left his family and moved to Farmington, NM where he fell in love with the early rock-and-roll offerings of artists such as Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Ray Charles, and Elvis Presley. The rest is history.
Sonny West considers himself as much a New Mexican as he does a Texan, and he loves the triculture of the state: Native American, Anglo, and Hispanic, as well as the beautiful landscape of an incredible variety of mountains, some more than 13,000 feet high, and deserts of beautiful flowering bever tail and chollo cactus.
That’s what the album, “Sweet Perfume” on Lance Records is all about. They are songs about New Mexico’s early Spanish explorers and Native Americans.
To view, go to rvstewartproductions.com
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