Music & Video Reviews: Rolling Stones’ Black and Blue Box Set, plus Robert Gordon with Link Wray, and Melissa Carper’s Christmas Album Just a few months shy of a half century after its release, the Rolling Stones’ Black and Blue is back in a “super deluxe” edition that includes four CDs (or five LPs) and […]
That’ll Flat…Git It! Series Unearths More Vintage Rockabilly While the rockabilly genre owed debts to multiple earlier musical styles, it didn’t come to fruition until Sun Records released the first singles from Elvis Presley, whose pioneering work was followed by that of such labelmates as Carl Perkins. As Andrew Hickey notes in an episode of […]
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Music Reviews: Dickey Betts, Amanda Anne Platt, Teni Rane, and an Anthology of Early Rock and Rockabilly Dickey Betts, Live from the Lone Star Roadhouse New York City 1988. This recording preserves a January 1988 concert by rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist Dickey Betts, who died this past April. The set culls material from the […]
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