Post by Arctic Circle System on Jan 20, 2024 13:32:12 GMT
So I was learning about a burial artist named Country Bill White, and found that, in a 1987 interview with the Orlando Sentinel, he mentioned a song he wrote with a band named the Sunset Playboys while he was buried in Houston called "Graveyard Rock", a parody of "Jailhouse Rock". The band was headed by a friend of his named Larry Butler, and you'll often see it listed in local Texas newspapers from the 60s to 70s as "Larry Butler and his Sunset Playboys". It was apparently the first country song Country Bill White recorded, and it inspired him to pursue a career in country music alongside his burial artist career, and according to him, the lyrics went something like “Buried in a hole about 6 feet down, sucking on a beer ‘way under this ground.”
I can't find this song mentioned anywhere else online. Nothing about it comes up in newspaper archives except for the Orlando Sentinel interview. It's not clear from the interview as to whether the song was recorded or the lyrics were written down anywhere, and the man himself and Larry Butler appear to have died nearly a decade ago, so I'm not quite sure where to start in looking for this. I should note that it is not related to the 2016 parody of Jailhouse Rock made by Count Von Kelley also titled Graveyard Rock.
