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The Major Influence

 

What happens when you mix the sultry sound of rhythm and blues with the peppy sound of 1950’s pop, then blend in the twang of country from the same era?  You’ve created a recipe for the distinct flavor of rockabilly music.  The question is, then, where did rockabilly music originate?

Many will argue that Elvis Presley’s 1954 Memphis sessions, recorded for Sam Phillips’s Sun Records are the first rockabilly recordings.  According to Scotty Moore, who, along with Bill Black, was involved in these recording sessions, they were taking a break from recording.  He said that Elvis began singing and jumping around, and Bill “picked up the bass and he began acting the fool”.  At that point, Moore joined in, Sam Phillips overheard the sound, and asked them to start over so he could record it.  Out of this, rockabilly music was born.

  

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During the same era, a little known musician in Lubbock, Texas, named Buddy Holly was building on the rockabilly music style by adding a little taste of rhythm from south of the border.  Today, Holly is one of the most well known rockabilly musicians of all time.  Though the original rockabilly musical era seemed to die with Buddy Holly in the terrible plane crash in 1959, there were several other musicians who dipped their toes in the pool of rockabilly music, including Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins, whose Blue Suede Shoes is a rockabilly anthem.

Most of these artists moved on to other musical genres, but rockabilly music survived by lending its distinct sound to rock and roll for years.  The style itself was resurrected by The Stray Cats in the 1980’s, who not only played rockabilly music but also dressed and groomed in true rockabilly style.  In the 1990’s and today, groups like The Cramps, Reverend Horton Heat, and Southern Culture on the Skids have continued to play a newer form of rockabilly music, and groups like The Meteors and Batmobile have gone a step farther.  By blending the style with punk rock music, they’ve created a new, unique style called psychobilly.

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