“Green Door,” a #1 hit in the US and UK in 1956, is now 70 years old so it’s no surprise if you don’t know it. (I grew up listening to oldies radio and I barely remember the original.) If you do know it, you likely know it from Shakin’ Stevens, which was also somehow a UK #1 during that brief period where rockabilly was popular again. Or, if you’re like me, you know it from The Cramps‘ cover. Both Stevens’ cover and The Cramps’ cover are pretty faithful, if filtered through their respective revivalist miens.

English singer-songwriter Barns Courtney has been putting out music for about 10 years. Not only was he not born when Shakin’ Stevens and The Cramps covered “Green Door,” his parents might not even have met yet. He is reaching back with this one. Continue reading »