Sonny Burgess and The Pacers

Sonny Burgess (Albert Austin Burgess, May 28, 1931 – August 18, 2017) was an American rockabilly guitarist and singer and songwriter. In the early 1950s, Burgess played boogie woogie music in dance halls and bars around Newport. Burgess, Kern Kennedy, Johnny Ray Hubbard, and Gerald Jackson formed a boogie-woogie band they called the Rocky Road Ramblers. In 1954, following a stint in the US Army (1951–53), Burgess re-formed the band, calling them the Moonlighters after the Silver Moon Club in Newport, where they performed regularly.