This special LP edition includes Nelsons eponymous album, Ricky Nelson, which was originally released by the Imperial label in 1958 and has been long unavailable on vinyl. Although he may have remained a slavish imitator of the Sun Records rockabilly style on his debut LP, Ricky (1957), he had gotten much better in the endeavor. On this second album, he had vastly improved, and his band, led by guitarist James Burton, was first-class.