Devil's Disciple

Anyone reading about the implosion of Sonny Burns' career in the mid-50s - when the East Texas honky-tonk singer sank from sight while his friend, label mate and sometime duet partner George Jones rocketed to stardom - might be surprised to find out that there was a Second Coming in the 1960s. 'Devil's Disciple' picks up where Bear Family's first collection devoted to Sonny Burns, 'Too Hot To Handle,' which covered his Starday years of 1953-56, left off, exploring Sonny's recording career from 1959 to the end of the 1960s.