“The Rockabilly Legends: A Tribute to My Friends” – a rare CD and DVD collection, providing a unique experience to the next generation of music fans. Rockabilly Legends Anthology, an incredible experience of rare live recordings going all the way back to 1954 at the Louisiana Hayride when … [Read more...]
The Beginning: Rock-A-Billy
Jerry Naylor - Tribute to The Rockabilly Legends "Rockabilly" or “ROCK-A-BILLY” – Like so many other slang descriptors of various types of music, such as Boogie-woogie, Dixieland and Swing, no one seems to know who actually coined the word, “Rockabilly.” The only fact on which most everyone … [Read more...]
Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips' Sun Records Carl Perkins, our special Rockabilly storyteller, takes great pains and pride in explaining how the magic of a 1950s Sam Phillips session works--how Sam dug out the genius of each of the legendary artists who crossed over the Sun Records threshold! Someone recently said … [Read more...]
“Tillman Franks, In His Own Words”
This conversation took place between Tillman Franks and Jerry Naylor on the stage of the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, home of the Louisiana Hayride, in May 2001. Tillman: If these boards could talk ... this stage that we’re sitting on ... it would tell incredible stories. Lots of memories on … [Read more...]
Sun Records – Rockabilly and Rock and Roll
ROCK-A-BILLY: (n.) An emotionally intense and rhythmic blend of [hillbilly] country music, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, Southern gospel, and African American spirituals. Originally performed by white musicians from the mid-southern region of the United States. Characterized by assertive, … [Read more...]
“Crickets Don’t Ever Change” 1961-1965
The Crickets The Day the Music Died, dubbed so by Don McLean’s song “American Pie”, was a tragic aviation accident that occurred on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing rock & roll musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, J.P “The Big Bopper” Richardson. Billboard, Rolling Stones, … [Read more...]