Eddie Cochran Summertime Blues ( Town Hall Party 1959)

Though Eddie Cochran was only twentyone when he died, he left a lasting mark as a rock and roll pioneer. Cochran zeroed in on teenage angst and desire with such classics as C mon Everybody, Something Else, Twenty Flight Rock and Summertime A flashy stage dresser with a toughsounding voice, Cochran epitomized the sound and the stance of the Fifties rebel rocker. But he was also a virtuoso guitarist, overdubbing parts like Les Paul even on his earliest singles and playing with an authority that led music journalist Bruce Eder to pronounce him rock s first highenergy guitar hero, the forerunner to Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page, Duane Allman and, at least in terms of dexterity, Jimi Cochran was also proficient on piano, bass and drums. Beneath Cochran s polite exterior lurked an allAmerican rebel, and in death he achieved iconic status with several generations of rock and rollers, from the first wave of British Invasi