The result is a mix of garage, country, blues, rockabilly and more, with a California surf guitar twist.
Rangy and broad-shouldered, he lent a rockabilly swagger to even his most technical briefings.
In the 1980s, he revived the rockabilly sound with his band, the Stray Cats.
As a result, Detroit's musical DNA was built on country, jazz, soul, gospel, rockabilly, funk and more.
Since then, Norton has put out a steady stream of raw, unusual roadhouse rock, soul, and rockabilly.
When he played jazz, it sounded like that's all he played, rockabilly, old rock and roll, soul music.
Beck was joined on stage by Dublin-based rockabilly quartet The Imelda May Band.
From 2007 to 2012, the San Francisco band Girls made bright, twisted rock music that reached back into rockabilly and glam.
Their rock-infused interpretation of the blues and folk genres also incorporated rockabilly, reggae, soul and funk among other influences, it adds.
He was also something of a local celebrity with his rockabilly music.
Maryland-based rockabilly duo the Weber Brothers join Hoier on Lovers and Dollars, and together they've created a memorable collection of Americana songs.
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Uniquely mixing vintage Rock'n'Roll, Rockabilly, R'n'B, Doo-Wop and Instrumentals, the show has attracted a big-following across the UK and on-line around the world.
And Jean-Paul Gaultier devoted his collection to the late singer Amy Winehouse, complete with candy-colored beehive wigs, leather corsets and a rockabilly vibe.
"Valentine's Day" fails to take off, though guitarist Earl Slick overdubs fat rockabilly lines and piercing solos that snake around Mr. Bowie's vocal.
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On Apr. 4, rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category.
Jones' early hits, such as "Lightning, " "The Race Is On" and "Root Beer, " were in a high-powered, rockabilly mode, but he found his biggest success as a crooner.
Fans of American roots music such as swing, blues, and rockabilly need look no further than HighTone Recordings, distributor of Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys, among others.
Mostly men in their 40s, decked out in the black leather, dark sunglasses and pompadours of American 1950s greasers, they blast Japanese rockabilly tunes from a boombox and dance coolly in pointy-toed shoes.
The one we all prefer to remember is the cool, leather-clad rockabilly version that dramatically burst upon the world stage in the 1950s, but the overweight, caped Vegas version still has a hold on the popular imagination.
Trawl neighbourhood boutiques for Godfather-worthy fedoras at Goorin Brothers, rockabilly jackets and lindy-hopping skirts at Al's Custom Originals, and original pressings of perennial local favorites Tom Waits, Dave Brubeck and Dead Kennedys at 101 Music (141 Grant Ave).
"You have the rockabilly artists who are essentially having a great deal of fun and basically swapping out hot rods for spacecraft, " says Bill Geerhart, who runs a Web site and the Atomic Platters record label, both devoted to Cold War music.
He was already a seasoned local and regional performer, playing both old-time music and what he called "rockabilly and pop standards, " when the folk boom of the 1960s put him in front of a new set of audiences with his voice, banjo and acoustic guitar.
From the rockabilly records he made under an assumed name, to the epic battlefields of his marriage - both personal and professional - to Tammy Wynette, and on through the period when whiskey and cocaine had such a hold on him that he seem to cancel more shows than he actually played.
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