It’s time once again to visit the wild side of rock n’ roll…unrestrained and unforgiving…and often out of tune. But that didn’t matter since it was the emotion and the sweat that filled the production gaps. A progenitor of punk, rockabilly music got its roots from hillbilly, country swing, and R&B. And it certainly owes a lot to Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley. Our show this week will cover the known and the unknown. We’ll hear tracks from the Sun stable but we’ll also dig into the digital dust bins of the Imperial, Capitol, and Decca labels for vintage examples and a few rockabilly modernists will be on hand. So get your cat clothes on and get ready for a raucous evening in West County on community radio.
No.
1
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
2
Johnny Burnette
Eager Beaver Baby
The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD1
3
Doc Watson
Shake, Rattle And Roll
Docabilly
4
Mac Wiseman
The Fool
Teenage Hangout
5
Rock*A*Teens
Doggone It Baby (Alt)
100 Rare '50s Rockabilly Tracks
6
Robert Gordon and Link Wray
Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track)
Too Fast to live… Too Young to Die
7
Wanda Jackson
There's A Party Goin' On
Queen Of Rockabilly
8
Wanda Jackson
The Graveyard Shift
Unfinished Business
9
Merle Kilgore
Everybody Needs A Little Lovin
Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
10
Bill Allen
Please Give Me Something
Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
11
Warren Smith
Got Love If You Want It
The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2
12
Warren Smith
Rock and Roll Ruby
Rockabilly Legend
13
Billy Lee Riley
Baby Please Don't Go
The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2
14
Carl Perkins
Glad All Over
Original Sun Greatest Hits
15
Malcom Yelvington
Rockin' with my Baby
SUN Rockabilly Meltdown [[Disc 3]]
16
Johnny Burnette
Oh Baby Babe
The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD1
17
Jerry Lee Lewis
Real Wild Child (Wild One)
The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2
18
Eddie Bond
Rockin' Daddy
Classic Rockabilly
19
Ronnie Dawson
Rockin' Bones
Rockin' Bones: The Legendary Masters [Disc 2]
20
Charlie Feathers
One Hand Loose
CD2
21
Charlie Feathers
Bottle to the Baby
Rockabilly Kings
22
The Collins Kids
Rock Boppin' Baby
100 Rare '50s Rockabilly Tracks
23
Larry Collins/Lorrie Collins
Mercy
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 4