Richard Burton of Bloomfield is wearing a black T-shirt, dark blue denim jeans with four-inch cuffs and a shiny pompadour. His bangs are coated in gobs of pomade. A wallet chain stylishly dangles from ...
After school every day, George turned on the radio and listened to tunes from Jimmie Rodgers, Big Bill Broonzy, Slim Whitman, and various English music-hall numbers. In 1992, George told Timothy White ...
Perkins, who died in 1998, wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," the hit song sung by Elvis Presley, which became the first Sun label record to sell over a million copies. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1996. This is ...
Documentary filmmaker Brent Huff has tackled some pretty intense material — teenage drug abuse, the pressure cooker politics of fashion modeling — but his latest feature, “It’s a Rockabilly World,” ...
Witnessing rockabilly originator Ray Campi in performance can be an unforgettable experience. Decked out in colorful, custom-tailored western wardrobe, letting fly with a biting vocal style ...
5 Seconds of Summer put the old-school machismo of Japan’s Rockabilly culture at the center of their new video for “Youngblood.” The anachronistic clip follows a gang of Fonz lookalikes through Tokyo.
Robert Gordon, one of rockabilly’s earliest revivalists and a familiar presence on the 1970s New York City punk rock scene, died Tuesday at the age of 75, his record label confirms to Variety. No ...