What Happens Now? It appears that we are fast approaching the end of The Rockabilly Roadtrip which means that it’s time to ask a very important question: after so many years of rockabilly, psychobilly, and the various other incarnations, where do we do from here? Well let me tell you, rockabilly is certainly not dead.…
Psycho-Rock-And-Roll All Over The World Well, last week we talked about the fallout of rockabilly and the birth of psychobilly. An interesting topic in itself and one which deservedly got a whole article to itself. Today, however, I’m here to tell you that psychobilly has a longer a much richer history than was presented last…
Rock ‘N’ Roll Meteors: The Psychobilly Revolution Now, last week we talked about how rockabilly, despite many people’s thinking, is not an extinct genre of music, and in fact it even enjoyed mainstream popularity after a revival movement in the seventies and eighties, but what I did not talk about last week was the fact…
1997 – Black Yak Phantom Rock/ Alternative The third album from Australian soft-rock trio The Whitlams takes a much more serious turn than their previous efforts and, while their earlier playful nonsense was a lot of fun, this new direction is a true delight to hear. Starting out with the frank ballad of romantic depression…
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival Now, some people think of rockabilly as a purely retro style of music that had its day in the sun during the fifties and early sixties and then died out to make way for other styles of rock and roll, but I’m here today to tell you that the…
Rock Across The Ocean: Britain Gets Rhythm Despite its origins as a distinctly American style of music, rockabilly was not confined to the United States, in fact after its meteoric rise to popularity in the United States rockabilly’s wild swinging sounds took hold all over the world. One of the places in which rockabilly really…
Curmudgeon that I am, I have always been somewhat sceptical of the revolutionary affect on music that the birth of internet file sharing was supposed to have had. It is true that I have seen the rise of illegal downloads and the removal of power from shelf placement at record stores, but so too have…
The Music Died, So What Now? Last week I wrote about the tragic deaths of three great singers, and history has noted that this date was a turning point for rockabilly music and rock music in general. Of course, that plane crash was not the only thing that led to the downfall of rockabilly in…
The Day The Music Died If you’ve been reading the articles in this series so far you might have got the picture that rockabilly is all mayhem slap bass and reverb fun, but today’s instalment is here to show off one of the darker days in rockabilly history; The Day The Music Died. On February…
Rockabilly Gets Real Gone There is an old expression used by many rockabilly musicians to describe a particular sense of outrageousness – “real gone”. Now, I’m not entirely sure when this quaint little phrase first came into use (some date it back to 1941), but I can tell you that throughout my reading about and…
Lachlan J. Faces The Music 