With no warning, and with little follow up information, rockabilly legend, big band leader, and bona fide guitar god Brian Setzer let it be known that he is no longer able to play the instrument that made him famous.
Brian Setzer’s new album ‘The Devil Always Collects’ will make you want to paint flames down the side of the family cruiser and start rolling a pack of cigs in the arm of your plain white T.
One of the founding pioneers of rockabilly, and the performer given credit for importing American rockabilly music to the UK has passed away at the age of 86. Charles Anthony Graci, known by the stage name Charlie Gracie, died in Philadelphia where he was known and beloved on December 16th.
Before BR549, before Hank Williams III and Wayne “The Train” Hancock, before The Revered Horton Heat and others, there were the Stray Cats. They were American music’s first retro, throwback band. They were one of the very first bands to make old music cool again.
The Ameripolitan Awards will be marking their 5th year by moving from Austin to Memphis where so much of the music celebrated by the emerging genre originally emanated from. And now one of the individuals seminal to revitalizing the Memphis sound starting in the late 70’s has been announced as one of the main performers for the event.
Rockabilly perennial Brian Setzer has had a long, strange, unique career. To a passive bystander, it may seem like he has disappeared and reappeared over they years to ride one retro craze or another, though in truth he has been in the drivers seat for most of the “crazes” that have afforded his music mainstream […]
On not just a few occasions since I started Free Hank III, I’ve found myself attempting to justify to someone why I think Hank Williams III is such an influential and important musician in country music, and why he and his music is worth fighting for. Sometimes it is in person, sometimes in the comments […]