Billy Fury, the history and biography of the British rocker

Billy Fury – Treasure Island. Chapter 2

Liverpool is a port city, and therefore has its own specifics: if you don't work at the docks, you work on a ship. If you don't work here or there, then you're dying. Ronald Wycherly…

The Nut Jumpers, discography of the England-France rockabilly trio

The Nut Jumpers: Anglo-French Eternal Youth

The path to the goal together is much easier than alone. Yes, he will be deprived of the romantic flair of a lone wolf, but it's more convenient to go in good company. On the…

Chris Isaak, The First Album, Silvertone, album review

Chris Isaak – Silvertone: He came to sing…

Eric Jacobsen (Jacobsen is a Scandinavian surname, read it however you want) already had a lot of experience producing the Lovin' Spoonful band when he knocked out some money for the fledgling Silvertone team from…

Conway Twitty, the best rock'n'roll and rockabilly songs, download mp3, listen online

Conway Twitty – The 17 Best Songs in…

Conway Twitty, a native of Mississippi, was an absolutely positive rock'n'roll hero, he was called the "best friend of the song." Conway never drank or smoked, but loved the opposite sex - he was married…

John Fogerty, Blue Moon Swamp 1997, album review

John Fogerty – Blue Moon Swamp: Songs are…

"The Odyssey of Captain Blood" by Rafael Sabatini's fine pen outlined the situation of the Irish in the British Empire. The British used these negligent Celts until the Dutch brought blacks to the New World.…

Ricky Nelson, the best songs, download or listen online

Ricky Nelson – The 20 Best Songs

Ранний Рики Нельсон известен за свой вклад в классику рокабилли: в конце 50х-начале 60х у него целая россыпь боевиков с соло-гитарой великолепного Джеймса Бёртона

Carl Perkins, Go Cat Go, review of the King of Rockabilly's latest album

Carl Perkins – Go Cat Go! (1996) when…

Any homo erectus from Earth and the surrounding planetoids appreciates Carl Perkins as a man whose musicality bordered on genius. The agrarian South of the United States remained impoverished even after the Depression, the cotton…

Rock-a-doodle, rock-a-doodle, cartoon review

Rock A-Doodle: A troubadour from a poultry farm

Петух Шантеклер отвечает за восход Солнца своим рокабилли-криком, который разбудит и настроит на нужный лад даже пса. Юный Тоби Скотт Гэнгер в роли мальчишки Эдмонда символизировал молодёжь, которая, послушав ранние записи Элвиса, могла воспитать в…

J. D. McPherson, Nite Owls, 2024, album review

JD McPherson – Nite Owls (2024): Owls are…

In 1917, the Yankees entered the First World War, in connection with which New Orleans was declared a "strategic port", and all the entertainment venues of the most musical city in the United States were…

Blue Cats, Best Dawn Yet, album review by a neo-rockabilly band

Blue Cats – Best Dawn Yet (2012): The…

The genres of Rockabilly and Neo-rockabilly are usually not rich in a variety of song themes. Cars, girls, booze, and a good hairstyle are about the vast majority of our favorite songs. Not that it's…

Fast Track To Nowhere – the soundtrack to…

The soundtrack to Rebel Highway, the collection Fast Track To Nowhere are versions of rock and roll classics from the musicians of the 90s. The compilation was released on A&M Records in 1994. Iggy Pop…

album review Lightning Bolt 2024, Mike Bell & The BellTones

Mike Bell & The Belltones – Lightning Bolt…

There is something absolutely fantastic for me about the music from the Scandinavian peninsula. It's not just the astronomical number of interesting artists and releases for every taste, as if every second person in the…

Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Back In Time, album review, album review

Hillbilly Moon Explosion – Back In Time (2024)…

Switzerland is a compact, cozy and relatively neutral country. Multilingual Helvetians leisurely mold their leaky cheese and rivet their precise watches. And in the case of a spiritual impulse, they climb to the top and…

review of the album Hot Hot Hot (2023) by The Millions

The Millions – Hot! Hot! Hot! You can’t…

This is not New Orleans, playing the saxophone in the St. Petersburg courtyard requires more courage than fiddling in the courtyard of Odessa. The first five years are especially difficult, until you manage to blow…

Alex & The Rainshots, review of the album Time Is Night 2023

Alex & The Rainshots – Time Is Nigh:…

Seventy years have passed since the change of epochs and the beginning of the decline of the Soviet Russian Empire. An absurd little man in an embroidered shirt rhythmically taps his shoe on the podium,…

Review of the album Hot Chickens 2022, French rockabilly

Hot Chickens – It’s Time to Rock Again…

It just so happens that all my rockabilly knowledge has never been to the south of Europe. Scandinavia, Germany, the east of Europe, especially Russia and Ukraine – there are many of my favorites. As…

Album review 2022, Dominic Halpin – Shade Of Blue

Dominic Halpin – Shade Of Blue: Plush rockabilly…

The Milky Way galaxy is rich in rock'n'roll for every taste. People with fine taste, young men with broken hearts, and director David Lynch like Roy Orbison. Perverts, psychopaths and Wednesday Addams experience sweet convulsions…

Ghost Radio, Something Better For You 2022, album review

Ghost Radio – Something Better For You: Ashes,…

There are ghosts with a motor, and ghosts with affectionate names settle in the old radio. Verunchik walks along the streets, squeezed by gloomy Chelyabinsk high-rise buildings, and even the winds part before her. The…

Diddley Dogs, Dawg Days Are Here, album review 2022, rock and roll

Diddley Dogs – Dawg Days Are Here (2022):…

Covering the work of friends is a hell of a complicated business. It is necessary to maintain a balance between outright flattery and undisguised malice. I'll try to be objective, despite my infernal sense of…

Dave Phillips & Hot Rod Gang, single 2021

Dave Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang (2021):…

The icon of the 80s neo-rockabilly, Dave Phillips, formerly of the Blue Cats, who named his rockabilly band after the 1958 film starring Gene Vincent, is returning. Famous for his collaboration with Mark Harman from…

Girls In Prison (1994) – the story around…

Another film from the Rebel Highway series is Girls In Prison (Girls In Prison, 1994). A detective story based on the rockabilly standard of Jody Reynolds. Director John McNaughton, who had shot Mad Dog and…

Go Cat Go is an American rockabilly legend…

Many music lovers agree that Go Cat Go, which existed for only a few years, from 1989 to 1993, is the most underrated rockabilly band. With this material, we begin the series with a publication…

Alex & Diamond Hands – Flyin’ Up (2020)…

The children of the space power dreamed of flying into space. Not because it was rich and prestigious - the children wanted to see the moon up close, they firmly knew that Solaris was only…

Johnny Suede (1991) – An ode to rockabilly…

This is the first film by Tom DiCillo, who, before becoming a director, worked as a cameraman for Jim Jarmusch, so Johnny Suede (Johnny Suede, 1991) was called another-about-Jarmusch-movie. The main role is played by…

Bloodshot Bill – Get Loose Or Get Lost…

Chew! What kind of wild sounds are shaking the old barn on this stuffy night? Did old man Ebenezer's lawn mower finally get to the owner? Or did the Texas Friendship chainsaw run over the…

The Sparks Boys – Upside Down (2019): Rock-upside-down-roll

The night capital... Magomayev sings inaudibly in the ever-fading sky. Leviathans of socialist realism, golems of Zurab Rkatsiteli, temples risen from decay scratch the clouds. Tiny clubs, pubs and eateries bravely lean against the footsteps…

Red Hot (1993): Youth, Love, Rock and Roll,…

Good midnight, Moon Dogs! It's time to howl at the stars and about the cinema! Since the Cold War, Hollywood movie companies have been pelting their viewers with images of "evil Russians" like monkeys with…

Zippers – Would You Love Me (2019), rockabilly…

Sultry blizzard night, Moon Dogs! Prepare the undercoat, today we will go to the Arctic. Norilsk... A city besieged by the stupid walkers of General Zugunder... The strings of the balalaika snap in the cold,…

Ghost Radio, rockabilly band from Chelyabinsk, Urals

Ghost Radio – No Time For Fun (2019),…

Good midnight, Moon Dogs! Somewhere south of my domain, but north of the Rio Grande, Chelyabinsk, the city of revived pipes, lurks. This is where the Ghost Radio, Ghost Radio, a rockabilly band unique to…

Straight to Hell (1987), punk rock stars in…

The art-house film Straight To Hell Straight To Hell Returns (1987) attracted me with its unusual cast. There's punk rock legend Joe Strummer, The Pogues as a Mexican gang, Jim Jarmusch, Elvis Costello, Grace Jones,…

JD McPherson

J. D. McPherson – Socks (2018), the Best…

Do you think Socks is another boring Christmas album? After all, all English-speaking rockers know the old proven recipe - do you want commercial success? So record a New Year's record! That's why I didn't…

Front side of Full Blown, an album by Johnny Reno

Johnny Reno – Full Blown (1985), Sax Maniacs…

I became a kind of fan of Comrade Rino after the Roadracers movie and decided to collect his entire discography, starting with The Juke Jumpers band. And although Johnny's discography is very small, it turned…

Deuce of Spades: A dream movie that has…

The budget of the Avengers of 2012 was 220 million dollars, while the budget of Deuce Of Spades, released a year earlier, was only 250 thousand dollars. You can't help wondering: what could have been…

The Sparky Sessions (2019) – and Sparky is…

I was offered to write a review for this release, and agreeing, the first thing I did was to look for information about the artists - Mark "Sparky" Philips and The Hillbilly Moon Explosion band.…

Runaway Daughters (1994) – a film about real…

A remake of the eponymous old black-and-white film Runaway Daughters (Runaway Daughters, or Daughters on the Run) in 1994, directed by Joe Dante for the TV series Rebel Highway. Again, a small town in the…

Roadracers (1994) – the best film about greasers

It is Roadracers (Roadracers, 1994) - the most famous and best film of the Rebel Highway series and the third film by Robert Rodriguez. Before that, he shot El Mariachi, more arthouse than mainstream. There…

Top Cats – the best neo-rockabilly from Sweden

If you're a musician, here's a tip for you: put a vintage American car on the CD cover and you'll definitely have one more sale. Because mainly because of the luxurious cover, all four parts…

The Head Cat – Walk The Walk… Talk…

Walk The Walk... Talk The Talk (2011) is a much more interesting album by the super trio The Head Cat than their previous work from 2006, the first album with the simple name The Head…

Hot Rod Lincol & Charlie Ryan thumb image version 2

Charlie Ryan and His Hot Rod Lincoln: Car…

It all started in 1950. Automotive culture dominated over all others: cheap cars and equally cheap engines, coupled with a relatively simple arrangement of mechanical parts and an almost complete lack of electronics, made it…

Album cover of 13 Tracks by 13 Cats made into a thumbnail

13 Cats – 13 Tracks (2002), and I’m…

Uh, I'm a little worried... We have a group of 13 Cats in the blue corner of the ring. This project is a so-called supergroup, which means that all of its members have been in…