Tag Archives: Rock & Roll

Gene Simmons (not the person in hard rockers Kiss) had lots 11 strike in 1964 using the novelty “Haunted Home,” but his center was actually in the high and rootsy rock and roll, soul, and nation customs of his house foundation of Memphis. Created in Tupelo, MS, Simmons relocated to …

THE BRAND NEW York-based roots rock-band Joe d’Urso & Rock Caravan began rollicking in the first ’90s and their raw raucous style is keenly like the likes of fellow American rockers John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan. D’Urso, who was simply an agency service provider in the music market …

The Debonaires were cousins, Joyce Vincent Wilson and Telma Hopkins, and supposedly there have been other people who remain unidentified. These unknowns are perhaps a number of the Adorables who documented for Golden Globe records prior to the Debonaires. A feasible surmise since two Adorables — Pat Lewis and Betty …

Johns (b. 1955) had fronted many rings in the Virginia/DC locale, arriving at the interest of guitarist Danny Gatton and finally performing vocals and composing the title monitor to Gatton’s Redneck Jazz recording. He created The H-Bombs in the past due ’70s, documenting an eponymous four-song EP within the small …

The “Crickets” began as pure fiction — the name a ruse utilized by Friend Holly, Jerry Allison, and Joe B. Mauldin in order to avoid the procedures of the 1956 agreement that Holly experienced authorized with Decca Information, that would possess prevented the discharge of their then-new documenting of “WHICH …

For an extremely brief amount of time in 1964, it seemed that the largest challenger towards the Beatles’ trend was the Dave Clark Five. Through the Tottenham part of London, the quintet had the lot of money to knock “I wish to Hold Your Hands” off the very best of …

Texas singer/songwriter Adam McMurtry, known for his hard-edged personality sketches, originates from a literary family; his dad, novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry, offered Wayne his first acoustic guitar at age group seven, and his mom, an English teacher, taught him how exactly to perform it. McMurtry started performing his personal …

One of the most enduring and beloved rockabilly performers from the ’50s, Curtis Gordon hasn’t gotten the identification he deserves seeing that a genuine crossover musician between country, American golf swing, and rockabilly. A devotee of both Ernest Tubb and Bob Wills being a boy, it is possible to hear …

The Dovells are most widely known for a small number of early-’60s dance hits, including their biggest one — “The Bristol Stomp” — number 1 (according to Cash Box) and number 2 (Billboard) within the pop charts in 1961, climbing its way to number seven within the R&B charts aswell. …

The Cues were Atlantic Information’ first (& most prominent) studio vocal group during rock & roll’s infancy (circa 1954), but their real claim to popularity was their backing support for R&B artists in the Atlantic roster. The Cues might have been the identifiable name where they would afterwards try to …