Darrel Higham

An Eddie Cochran LP changed Darrel Higham’s lifestyle. The United kingdom guitarist/vocalist, who wasn’t also delivered when Cochran last toured Britain, entered his teenagers through the 1970s, just like punk was beginning to attract a whole lot of teens — nonetheless it was Cochran’s slim, virtuoso-level playing and probably the most frantic defeat of his greatest songs, on a vintage recording that Higham within his parents’ collection, that became his motivation. He spent another couple of years learning all he could from viewing other guitarists in action and in addition hearing lots of information that were obtaining reissued in Britain, by famous brands Carl Perkins, Scotty Moore within Elvis Presley’s music group, and Cliff Gallup in Gene Vincent’s Blue Hats. Higham also became a devotee from the growing amount of revival performers, specifically the Stray Pet cats and Shakin’ Stevens. At 17, he was playing business lead acoustic guitar with such rings because the Baskervilles and Offbeats, and he ultimately landed probably the most improbable of discovery gigs, portraying Eddie Cochran within the London stage musical Elvis. Higham’s fluent control of ’50s rock and roll & move elicited admiration from famous brands Jeff Beck and Chrissie Hynde, and he also performed upright bass with rockabilly legends Merril E. Moore (“THE HOME of Blue Lamps”) and Terry Noland. In 1991, he created Bob & the Bearcats with business lead vocalist Bob Burfoy, and documented a well-received album-length Compact disc, Hang on Tight. In 1992, Higham received among the highest personal honors of his profession when he sang and performed six weeks’ well worth of gigs in the us with Eddie Cochran’s music group the Kelly Four. Within the years since, along with his personal music group the Enforcers, Higham continues to be among the best young rockabilly fans from the 1990s and beyond.