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Originally Posted by ChelseaDagger
Glad I found this thread! Rockabilly doesn get nearly enough attention as a genre. I stumbled across these Finnish guys on accident when I was listening to the Collins Kids...
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Originally Posted by ChelseaDagger
Another fun one from a different Scandinavian group
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^ Those are both great songs by Whistle Bait and the Go Getters. I especially liked "Junkyard Dog" by the Go Getters. I didn't realize rockabilly was popular in Scandinavia.
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My current favorite rockabilly musician is
Lance Lipinsky, a great pianist and singer (and guitarist) who plays and sings with incredible ease, charisma, and humor. He's a phenomenal performer.
We saw Lance Lipinsky performing as Jerry Lee Lewis earlier this month in the musical "Million Dollar Quartet" in Chicago, where he has played the role for 5 1/2 years with his final performance in just a few days. I'm glad we saw him while we could!
His own band is called "Lance Lipinsky and the Lovers," with which he plays oldies and his own songs.
Lance Lipinsky - Live in Canada
Here he is playing mostly Jerry Lee Lewis songs in a great performance. He looks like he really loves what he does and his enthusiasm is contagious!
Lance's website offers a thorough and fascinating biography with darling footage from his childhood musical endeavors:
lovers
While growing up, Lance didn't know about the rockabilly subculture that has been alive and well, apparently, all these years since the 1950s and '60s, so once he discovered it, he must have been elated to have found his musical home.
Quoting from his bio: "What made this new discovery of the Rockabilly sub culture even more exciting was that the community was made up of predominantly younger people. This wasn't the same audience of old timers in a smokey casino that Lance was use to. This was a real, critical music scene full of younger people, an almost secret society of new fans of an art form thought to be extinct."
Here are some more good quotes from the bio:
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Lance Lipinsky:
"The greatest gift God ever have me was acne," he explains, "Having braces didn't help either. That lack of confidence forced me to kind of isolate myself and just play music. So because girls were never a distraction, I just practiced music even more. It's all I ever did. I just taught myself."
"I always liked Jerry Lee but it wasn't until I started playing piano that I realized how much I under estimated him. It's impossible to explain to someone that doesn't play but pounding on the keys like him was an indescribable feeling. I realized that the energy in his rhythm and grooves was one of the most powerful things I've heard or played. Jerry Lee awakened my demons and made them dance."
From: lovers
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