Posts Tagged Rockabilly
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July 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 94
Robert Gordon, Bad Boy (1980) I’ll confess – Robert Gordon is new to me. Not brand new, I’ve known about him for a wee while, but I didn’t grow up with him in any way at all. When he was mentioned to me a couple of years ago and I saw some YouTube clips it […]Archive
April 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Stray Cats: 40
The Stray Cats 40 Surfdog Records / BMG Rights Management (US) LLC You sometimes worry for these sorts of reunions – and certainly The Stray Cats never worried about anything crucial like developing; theirs was a loving pastiche – a style already there that they lifted and ran with, bringing 50s rockabilly to the 70s/80s […]Archive
September 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 89: X – “Wild Gift”
I absolutely expected to hear a few more duds doing this challenge. But shit it’s been good. A lot of great albums I knew about and therefore kinda knew I’d missed and a lot of things I genuinely didn’t know about or certainly didn’t know just how great they would be. I guess there’ll be […]Archive
August 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 81: The Cramps – “Songs The Lord Taught Us”
I just have no idea what albums I’ve heard by The Cramps – but I do know I’d never heard this until the book told me to try it. I don’t even know when or how I first heard The Cramps – the sort of band that feels like it always existed and was also […]Archive
September 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman