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The first time a guitar slung low caught the spotlight, a whole wardrobe appeared beside it. Stage wear in rockabilly has never been an afterthought — it is a…
A torn rectangle of cardstock can carry more history than a thousand-word biography. For collectors across Sydney's Inner West, the back rooms of Melbourne…
Before electric instruments reshaped popular music, a hillbilly band had to sound lively in a crowded dance hall, country store or rural radio studio with very…
A great rockabilly intro can identify a song before the singer delivers a single syllable. A clipped chord, a twanging single-note line or a burst of slapback…
Rockabilly has always been more than the sum of its records. The pompadours, the hot rods, the pin-up photography, the dance hall stories, and the wild…
In the late 1950s, a strange new sound began drifting across the Pacific, slipping into Japanese cities through the holds of cargo ships and the trunks of…
Rockabilly collecting rewards close listening, patience, and a willingness to inspect objects that may be more than half a century old. A scarce 45 can be an…
The slap bass tone that drives so much of psychobilly has roots stretching back to early rock and roll, country, and jump blues, with modern players pushing…
The original promotional t-shirt from the early rockabilly era is one of the rarest surviving artefacts of the genre. Printed in small runs to advertise a…
Most casual listeners remember rockabilly for its slap-back echo, slap bass, and the bright twang of a Gretsch or Telecaster cutting through the mix. What…