Rockabilly

Although they have been classed as a punk band, their music is similar in style to The Straycats. See also: roller. There are also some rockabilly inspired acts, such as the successful Australian band, The Living End. The word roll has these meanings:.
. A Rolls Royce automobile. And all have a steady and popular revivalist following all over the world. A slang name for a pill of MDMA (ecstacy).

All have a love and respect of classic American cars, British motorcycles, Rock n Roll, and vintage clothing. A roll cloud. In regards to fashion, Rockabillies look very similiar to other music/fashion subcultures like Greasers, Teds (Teddy Boys) and Rockers of the same era. To rob a person who is in a helpless state. The clothing is largely reflective of the popular styles worn by the musicians in the 1950s themselves; slacks, pastel colored and Daddy-O styled shirts, baggy coats with the shirt collars worn over the coat collar, creeper shoes in every colour of the spectrum, with black and white being the most popular. Rolling one's feet, as in marching band, see glide step. It was rumored that Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash both used Genuine B&W Pomade to hold up their hair with a thick and shiny look. The human action to roll.

This hair style is usually maintained with large amounts of pomade hair wax from traditional brand names like; Brylcreem, Black & White Pluko, Murrays and Layrite. in video and movie terminology, a roll is vertically moving text, as in credits roll. The hairstyle is usually a tame or more exagerated "pomp" or pompadeur hairstyle as was popular with 1950s artists like Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and revivalists stars from the '80s, The Stray Cats. Roll, in the Mega Man series of video games. Worthy of mentioning is the fact that devoted followers of Rockabilly music and it's fashion are known as Rockabillies, or "Billys" within the "scene". Electoral roll.
. A register or catalogue, e.g.

More recent rockabilly performers have merged the style with western swing and jump blues to produce a music that combines elements of music common to the late 1940s and 1950s, without adhering to the strict practices of rockabilly itself. A heavy machine used in a steel mill. . Bank or roll, an aerobatic maneuver, also see flight dynamics.
. Something wrapped around a tube, e.g., toilet roll. In 1997, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame was founded by Bob Timmers to present early rock and roll history and information relative to the artists and personalities involved in this pioneering American music genre. A roll can refer to other foods; sausage roll, spring roll, egg roll.

It is preserved in perfect isolation within an indistinct time period....". A bread roll. That is because it never went anywhere. Guralnick writes, "Rockabilly is the purest of all rock 'n' roll genres. Dire Straits did a rockabilly track, The Bug, on their 1991 album On Every Street.

And bands like The Cramps, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Reverend Horton Heat, Southern Culture on the Skids, Batmobile and more importantly The Meteors merged the music with Punk rock/Horror, forming a distinct sub-genre referred to as psychobilly. In the 1980s, The Stray Cats led a brief revival of interest in rockabilly, while another revival followed in the 1990s with bands like High Noon, Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys, the Dave and Deke Combo, The Racketeers, and many others. Although the influence of rockabilly, both as a musical style and as a set of attitudes and gestures, has never waned, Holly's death in a plane crash in 1959 tended to mark the end of the classic rockabilly era. Eddie Cochran and Ricky Nelson also are considered rockabilly performers; they were not, however, from the South, although Nelson's guitarist, James Burton, grew up in Shreveport.

The early recordings of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Dale Hawkins, Charlie Feathers, Hasil Adkins, Gene Vincent, Billy Lee Riley and Roy Orbison are also considered essential, although Cash, Vincent, Lewis and Orbison each went on to perform in other styles. "Blue Suede Shoes", written by Carl, is considered a classic of the style. Carl Perkins, who also recorded for Sun, is another performer whose recordings helped to define the genre. Holly's pioneering efforts are legendary, and the rockabilly sound was a strong element in much of his work.

During roughly the same period of time, a young singer/songwriter down in Lubbock, Texas named Buddy Holly was busy taking elements of various musical styles (blues, country, gospel, south of the border, etc...) and melding them into what later became the "Tex-Mex" sound. "Blue Moon of Kentucky," by Bill Monroe, was a bluegrass standard, done with overtones of blues. "That's All Right," first performed by Arthur Crudup, was a reworking of a blues tune, done with overtones of country music. Elvis Presley's 1954 Memphis sessions for Sam Phillips's Sun Records produced arguably the first rockabilly recordings.

He is a member of the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame. His song "Go Cat Go" went into the National Billboard charts in 1956. Bill Flagg was the first to name the music when he recorded for Tetra Records in 1955 - 1956. But rockabilly was a stripped-down version of its various sources, and thus a specific stylistic moment in the evolution of music that before had existed in many forms.

As Nick Tosches writes, "By the early 1950s, it was not uncommon to encounter simultaneous country and rhythm-and-blues recordings of the same song." And he points out that the Delmore Brothers and Hank Williams were performing, in the late 1940s, music that could be called rock and roll. As Peter Guralnick writes, "Its rhythm was nervously uptempo, accented on the offbeat, and propelled by a distinctively slapping bass....The sound was further bolstered by generous use of echo, a homemade technique refined independently by Sam Phillips and Leonard Chess in Chicago with sewer pipes and bathroom acoustics." While recording artists such as Bill Haley were playing music that fused rhythm and blues, western swing and country music in the early 1950s, and Tennessee Ernie Ford performed in a somewhat similar style on songs such as "Smokey Mountain Boogie," they were not playing rockabilly. It is a fusion of blues, hillbilly boogie, bluegrass music and country music, and its origins lie in the American South. Rockabilly is the earliest form of rock and roll as a distinct style of music.

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Turbopotamos. Three Bad Jacks. The Tremors. The Caravans.

Sonoramic Commando. Rocket 350. The Raging Teens. Marti Brom.

Kim Lenz. Josie Kreuzer. Johnny Mercury. Johnny Knox and High Test.

Jack Knife and the Sharps. Hot Rod Lincoln. Hillbilly Moon Explosion. Hillbilly Hellcats.

High Noon. Frantic Flattops. The Dempseys. Dragstrip 77.

Deke Dickerson. Dead Man's Hand. David Vanian and the Phantom Chords. Dagmar and the Seductones.

Chuck Berry. Charlie Feathers. Cigar Store Indians. Cave Catt Sammy.

Buddy Holly. Blacktop Rockets. Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys. Belmont Playboys.