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by Jim Hanas & Mark Jordan

Paul Burlison

In the last year, Memphis has seen its share of Fifties rockers roll through town, from Ronnie Dawson to Link Wray to Carl Perkins. Saturday, Automatic Slim’s welcomes another hometown rockabilly artist. As lead-guitarist for the Rock ’N Roll Trio, Paul Burlison helped shape the guitar sound of the Fifties – he’s yet another guitarist credited with pioneering fuzz, a sound he attributes to a loose amplifier tube, most notably through the minor hit he and bandmates Dorsey and Johnny Burnette had with “Train Kept A-Rollin’” in 1956. More recently, that song has lent its name to Burlison’s first solo record (he cut a record with the Sun Rhythm Section in the ’80s), which features performances by Rocky and Billy Burnette (the sons of Johnny and Dorsey, respectively), and a host of other musicians, including Elvis’ drummer D.J. Fontana and Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. Saturday at Slim’s, Burlison will wield his Telecaster at the helm of a combo featuring Rocky Burnette on vocals. – Jim Hanas

We know we probably spill too much ink on them, but, dang it, Delorean and the Satyrs are just that good. Delorean is a space jam band for people who don’t like such things. Capable of some truly transcendent improvs, they avoid all the pretension that usually accompanies such groups. The Satyrs, fronted by wunderkind Jason Paxton – who at 18 years old is writing some astonishingly sophisticated songs and performing them with a heartfelt assurance that is magnetic to watch – play a moody kind of pop/punk/folk rock which in the right venue can completely entrance an audience. And fortunately Barristers, where both bands will be this Saturday along with Miami psychedelic rockers Muse, is just such a place – dark, warm, and fully stocked. n– Mark Jordan