Tag Archives: Rockabilly

The Sparkletones’ story must have been a film. For a number of listeners, these were and so are what rockabilly music really was about — four children in the south, none over the age of 16 and something as early as 13 if they began, obtaining together and producing fast, …

By legal rights, Melvin Endsley must have been a significant nation artist from the past due ’50s — he previously the talent, as well as the songs, as well as the drive, however, not the good fortune to become too referred to as, say, Marty Robbins. But he supplied Robbins …

In the annals of Sun Records, Ray Harris is but a footnote. He just noticed two singles released on the tiny yellowish label, but his inclusion in virtually any rock history publication is dependant on the actual fact that both of these records just eventually a number of the best …

Rockabilly wildman Ray Campi recorded many classic singles through the music’s prime era, and afterwards staged a comeback that earned him a considerable cult audience on the ’70s and ’80s. Campi was created in NY in 1934 and shifted with his family members to Austin, TX, at age group ten. …

As bass participant, tranquility vocalist, and occasional songwriting collaborator within the Bobby Fuller 4, Randy Fuller was the main musical affiliate of his older sibling Bobby. Randy is in fact not really on Bobby’s initial recordings, becoming a member of his sibling’s music group in 1962. From after that until …

Named following a Carl Perkins’ classic, Matchbox had been one of the 70s rock and roll ‘n’ move revivalist rings from the united kingdom to help make the leap from golf club favourites to graph stars. The music group was shaped in 1971 by two previous people of Contraband – …

In today’s climate of political correctness, it’s amazing to believe a scant few decades ago, a quarter-Cherokee country singer named Marvin Rainwater would shamelessly trade on his Indian pedigree to create himself a name on the united states music circuit. But burning this absurd charade was some extremely solid music …

Vocalist/songwriter Narvel Felts is at the united states music business for over 30 years. Created in Bernie, Missouri, he was a self-taught guitarist inspired by the united states music of such performers as Ernest Tubb and Floyd Tillman. Felts began in 1956 when he received his high-school skill contest having …

Rick Nelson was among the very biggest from the ’50s teenager idols, so that it took awhile for him to achieve the same degree of critical respectability while other early rock and roll greats. Yet right now the consensus is the fact that he made a number of the finest …

The Chop Tops certainly are a rockabilly trio from Santa Cruz, California, formed within the mid-’90s by Gary “Sinner” Marsh (vocals). They quickly constructed momentum around their Bay Region groundings with a combined mix of rockabilly, browse, punk, and psychobilly, and debuted on record with 1997’s Revved-Up Rockabilly on Swillbilly …