rockabilly

     

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock an roll music, and emerged in the early-1950's.

Trivia about rockabilly

  • The name of this type of popular music combines "hillbilly" & "rock & roll"
  • In the mid-1950s, this style got its name, combining a type of music & a rural fellow"Riding down Sunset /Santa Monica, too /Over to the Valley /To pick up Peggy Sue"
  • Early one-word hybrid rock & roll style exemplified by artists like Gene Vincent & Carl Perkins
  • The Stray Cats revived this kind of rock in 1982