Music
Of all the country boogie songs (and there are many), perhaps the most unusual is Grady Martin’s hymn to the least fashionable style of men’s underwear – Long John Boogie. (more…)
Rockabilly one-hit wonder Ray Smith’s background is like a real-life version of The Dukes Of Hazzard. (more…)
Carl Perkins may be the least famous of the Million Dollar Quartet who turned up to record at Sun Studio on the same day as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. (more…)
The Maddox Brothers & Rose – I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again
5th January 2022 · 1940s, 1948, Country, MusicI first heard Rose Maddox when my friend Steve England made a tape of old-time music – bluegrass, country, western swing and hillbilly boogie – after starting his club Son of Redneck with Jo Hagan. (more…)
Hillbilly boogie was a postwar hybrid popularised by white folk in the South and evolved into rockabilly in the mid-1950s. (more…)
Elvis Presley – I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone
2nd January 2022 · 1950s, 1955, Music, Rock'n'Roll, RockabillyI didn’t discover Elvis until his Vegas period in the early 1970s, belting out big ballads with overblown arrangements while I waited impatiently for new singles by T. Rex, Slade and The Sweet. (more…)
Elvis Presley – I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine
2nd January 2022 · 1950s, 1954, Music Genre, Rock'n'Roll, RockabillyThis is my favourite Elvis song of all time. It’s one of the first he recorded at Sun Studios and it came out on the B-side of his second single Good Rocking Tonight in 1954.
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Here’s my final contender for the earliest rock’n’roll song. And I think it’s the winner. (more…)
Sam Phillips is arguably the single most important name in the history of rock’n’roll music. In 1950 he opened a recording studio in Memphis and his label, Sun Studio, went on to make much of the earliest – and still the greatest – rock’n’roll music ever recorded. (more…)
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