Posts Tagged Rockabilly

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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 […]

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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 […]

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September 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 629

V/A, Let’s Have A Party: The Rockabilly Influence 1950-1960 (1981) I found this record the other day in the store, hadn’t ever seen it before – pretty nifty compilation. I knew most of the names on it. Still, one or two new things (as should always be the way with a compilation). Most of the […]