It's Rockabilly Week!

[Paedantic Basterd]

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating to the early 1950s.

The term rockabilly is a portmanteau of rock (from rock 'n' roll) and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music (often called hillbilly music in the 1940s and 1950s) that contributed strongly to the style's development. Other important influences on rockabilly include western swing, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues. While there are notable exceptions, its origins lie primarily in the Southern United States.

The influence and popularity of the style waned in the 1960s, but during the late 1970s and early 1980s, rockabilly enjoyed a major revival of popularity that has endured to the present, often within a rockabilly subculture.

Rockabilly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by Rate Your Music

Rockabilly started in the mid-50s at the dawn of Rock & Roll with the influential recordings Elvis Presley made for Sun Records. Originally it was Country musicians playing their own version of uptempo Rhythm & Blues music, resulting in this new style. It usually features driving guitars, frantic vocals and slap-back echo in the bass. Rockabilly still has a big following with new artists emerging every year.

The top 5 Rockabilly releases as rated by RYM users:

1) Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly (1958)



2) Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio - Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio (1956)



3) Buddy Holly - The "Chirping" Crickets (1957)



4) Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash With His Hot Blue Guitar (1957)



5) Link Wray & The Wraymen - Link Wray & The Wraymen (1960)

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In honour of this weekly theme, I've downloaded the top rated release.

[captaincaptain]

Essential Rockabilly

[Howard the Duck]

wot, no Carl Perkins? that man was rockabilly





and my fave of the rockabilly revivalists, the Stray Cats:-



and a sub-sub-genre - punkabilly (King Kurt):-

[Psy-Fi]

And how about a shout out to the late, great, Hasil Adkins!

http://tinyurl.com/86t7jw3

[Howard the Duck]

also punkabillies The Cramps, and the late Lux Interior:-

[s_k]

More punkabilly:


Tiger Army- Nocturnal - YouTube

TIGER ARMY-POWER OF MOONLITE - YouTube

Their singer solo:

Nick 13 - Carry my body down - YouTube

[blastingas10]

Nice one, Duce. I saw the first couple posts and didn't see any Carl Perkins, I was about to say: "What an outrage!"

[Janszoon]

No Eddie Cochran in this thread? Good heavens! That need to be remedied immediately.

[blastingas10]

Captaincaptain posted a Cochran video.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by blastingas10

Captaincaptain posted a Cochran video.

That's only because he is a genius.