Freddie Heath was born in 1935, a couple of weeks after Elvis, on the other side of the Atlantic, in one of the northern districts of London. When English teenagers were gripped by an epidemic…
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: 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…
British rockabilly of the 1950s: Treasure Island. Chapter…
Few people know that rock appeared in the UK even before the Beatles. In the 1960s, the British would teach Americans how to play American music, but in the 1950s they taught themselves. First, Lonnie…
Hot Chickens – Rock’n’roll Vendetta (2025): Old Monsieur’s…
R means a rooster! V means vendetta! Moreover, the rooster is exclusively Gallic. But with the letter R, everything is much more interesting. These are "rock and roll", and "rockabilly" and even "rhythm and blues".…
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 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: 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 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! (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: 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…
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…
Black Knights – Gold Teeth And Silver Charms:…
One of my hobbies is to search for music that is not available on the Internet. And when I find something that I like, I have a desire to share it with the people... The…
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…
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…
Linda Gail Lewis – Rockabilly Queen (2024) Rockabilly…
There is a wonderful paragraph 63 in the rules of the Internet: any character must have a version of the opposite sex. It has not spared the rock and roll galaxy either, because Jerry Lee…
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…
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 – 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,…
Chris Isaac – Everybody Knows It’s Christmas: Rockabilly…
All of Chris Isaac's music is a great addition to our summer days, but in his new work he definitely turns to winter. Everybody Knows It's Christmas is the second of Isaac's Christmas albums, released…
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…
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…
Rockabilly Nationals: Four hours of Swedish Rockabilly
For quite some time now, I've been wanting to introduce all those who visit our website to collections called Rockabilly Nationals. And it seems that there won't be a better moment than now - right…
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 (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…
Stephane Griebel sings Christmas Songs (2021) – Christmas…
At the end of November 2021, the German label KEiL Records, with which we have already become friends this fall, released a Christmas mini-album "Stephan Griebel sings Christmas Songs" with a circulation of 333 copies.…
Brian Setzer – Gotta Have The Rumble (2021),…
Brian Setzer's first solo album in the last seven years! As in the case of the album by another stray cat, Lee Rocker, the recording of the disc occurred not least due to the widespread…
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…
Cry-Baby: the most rock’n’roll movie of the 90s
The action of the movie Cry-Baby (Cry Baby, 1990) takes place in Baltimore, Maryland. The year is 1954. There are decent Clean boys-girls studying at the local high school (The Squares), but the drop of…
Tami Nielson – Chikaboom Deluxe (2021): The Booming…
"A bootleg full of surprises" is what you can call this boot-shaped island state in Oceania, although some prefer the traditional New Zealand. Maori dance brutally here, Kiwis sneak mercilessly at the worm in the…
Rolling Camel – Harpabilly Harp’n’roll (2021) harp in…
The latest release of 2021 is Harpabilly Harp'n'roll! Our compatriot Maxim Evseev is hiding under the pseudonym Rolling Camel. Maxim has been playing the harmonica for 10 years and focuses on blues musicians such as…
Lee Rocker – Gather Round (2021), rockabilly appeal…
Lee Rocker's new album Gather Round was released on January 22, 2021. The name seems to be taken from the first line of the famous "protest song" of the main American minstrel. But the album…
Hack Mack Jackson – Low Budget High Convenience…
In 2020, there have been many decent music releases in root music. Here's one of them that really got me hooked. The West German band Hack Mack Jackson from Dusseldorf released a mini-album Low Budget…
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…
The Shakers – Romantic Fools (2020): Captain Vrungel…
Who is this guy with the Clarkkent glasses? What kind of cheeky trio is with him? The guitarist shows that smile that hangs in the air for a long time after his departure, the implacable…
The Swamp Shakers – Don’t Wanna Miss (2019)…
And let the British think that the greatest detective lived in London, at 221b Baker Street, any thoughtful viewer has long known that the best Holmes in the world lives at 22 Yauniela Street in…
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…
Unrealizable Grease Dream, rockabilly from the USSR (1987-1992)
The cold wind brings back memories, ruffles the fur on the back of his neck. He whispers terrible spells: glasnost-perestroyka. It's 1987 outside the Delorean window, Teddy Bear is just preparing a sledgehammer for the…
Moscow Beatballs – Jazz Deformation: some information about…
Dark is the best time for dangerous dancing, Moon Dogs! This is what a journalist from a black-and-white film tells you, stubble, gallons of coffee and smoke add weight to his words. Artie Shaw's "Nightmare"…
Johnny Reno – Third Degree (1990), the same…
I 'll testify, it ain't no lie: I saw Elvis in the sky! You'll understand what I mean later, but in the meantime, let me write a few words about Johnny Reno. It seems to…
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 – 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,…
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…
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…
J. D. McPherson – Signs And Significators, Honest…
J.D. McPherson is a heroic guy. For the root music of Americana with a mix of blues and rockabilly, he is like Tom Petty for country rock, embodying honesty and uncompromising. He can be serious…
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…
Peggy Sugarhill – Rockabilly Music Is Bad Bad…
And this story happened not so long ago and it started with a simple request. "Hey, dude, can you listen to this song? I can't make out the words in the second verse." Yes, of…
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…
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…
Bullet Proof – Shake The Summer (2018), the…
You know, one of the main problems of the modern world in terms of music is that the rules have changed. If earlier it was possible to record two or three tracks on a record…
Ignition! (2001) – Comeback Special by Brian Setzer
The problem with mastodons like Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, BB King and others is that these guys have made too much music, and I don't have much time to listen to it. Fortunately, I've recently…
The Loveless, a biker movie starring Willem Dafoe
Let me introduce you to the movie Without Love (The Loveless) of 1981. The second role of Willem Dafoe, his first major, and at the same time the first film in which he is mentioned…