Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian Setzer plays a Gretsch Chet Atkins onstage in Chicago, 1983. Brian Setzer revitalised the rockabilly scene with his band The ...
Despite being overshadowed by their London and New York counterparts, left-coast punksters X flourished in the late 70s and early 80s, grinding out dirty, blistering rock in dingy nightclubs.
There’s something so immediately appealing about rockabilly music that it’s easy to assume the invigorating style has been a bestselling fixture on the pop scene ever since its start in the ‘50s in ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of ...
SoCal rockabilly pioneer Larry Collins and friends pay tribute to his late sister, singer Lorrie Collins Guitarist-singer-songwriter Larry Collins, center, performs in Santa Ana in front of the ...
Guitarist Sonny Burgess, an early rockabilly player who rose to prominence through his work with Sun Records, has died at the age of 88. The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports on Burgess' death, which ...
Rockabilly bounced into the spotlight in the 1950s when Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley and other legends rocked country-boogie, hillbilly and rhythm & blues with a slapped bass sound that ...
Witness, for example, the music of Nick Drake—or the similarly understated folk recordings of Abigail Lapell, whose atmospheric work might also occasionally remind you of Pentangle, Fairport ...
On the title track of his new CD, Greenwood’s Mack Allen Smith sings, “Well I’m growing old and it may sound silly, but I still love my rockabilly / I can’t explain it so please don’t ask me why / ...
On a small corner stage at Chopper John’s, Marco Polo’s getting ready to perform with his Mexican psychobilly trio, Curse of the Pink Hearse. Most of the patrons at this biker bar on east Indian ...