I'm in Rockabilly Heaven

[SweetZombieJesus]

Tonight I'm listening to:

The Sun Records Collection (3 Discs)
The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
Charlie Feathers - Get With It
Southern Culture On The Skids - Dirt Track Date
Gibson Bros. - Memphis Sol Today
Blue Moon Boys - Sticks & Stones

Suddenly I have a hankering for some fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

[Whitacre D_WI]

1. Good choices...

although "Memphis Sol Today" is my least favorite Gibsons album.

Any night spent with Charlie Feathers is a good night.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. I LOVE The Cramps!

They remind me a lot of Halloween.

I saw them a bunch of times in the '80s. They were always great. Lux Interior was quite the showman...

[pasadenaboy]

6. they usually play LA and SF

over Halloween weekend. I saw them a couple of times in the past 5 years. They are still unbelievable.

[jonnyblitz]

10. I saw them at theWarfield Theater in SF in 1992 i think it was

that was the only time I had a chance to see them. I love them.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

15. They used to play Halloween in the '80s in Boston

There was a huge fan base here, and huge punk scene. It was a BLAST!

[Friar]

3. you'd love Nick Lowe

His "Convincer" is wonderful. Trust me.

[SweetZombieJesus]

4. I already do love Nick Lowe

I was thinking about putting some of his Brinsley Schwarz work in the CD book for tomorrow, as a matter of fact.

[johnnywalker]

5. rockabilly!

I'm from Austin. You gotta try the late great Texan, Ronnie Dawson, one of his albums was recorded here in Austin, "Live From The Continental Club". Also "Rockin'Bones" from Ronnie. I'm sad to say the late great becase he died recently. Another Texan, Rev. Horton Heat! try his Holy Roller box set. And THE crudest and wildest of them all from West Virgina, Hasil Adkins. Try "Out to Lunch". That's my 2 cents from Austin. Thanks for the other music ideas! (saw S.C.O.T.S here in Austin a couple of weeks a go... great with Mississippi All Stars

[GOPisEvil]

8. Hey! Another Austinite!!!

:hi: Welcome to DU!

[newyawker99]

22. Hi johnnywalker!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[NightTrain]

7. I love rockabilly myself!

For proof, check out this webpage of my radio playlists from the summer of 2002:

http://home.comcast.net/~soulexpress4/retro.htm

[jonnyblitz]

9. I listened to Psychedelic Jungle by the Cramps in the car earlier

while going to the print shop to pick up my picket sign for this weekend in DC. Green fuzz etc....

[MaryBear]

11. Rockabilly!

The best.

[GOPisEvil]

12. I feel like putting on some Blasters...or maybe...

Legendary Shack Shakers.

Dammit SZJ, ya got me in the rockabilly mood. :P

[Richardo]

24. Dave Alvin! My man!.

Love the Blasters.

[GOPisEvil]

25. I saw Dave Alvin not too long ago.

Er, yikes - it's been close to a year! :o

Anyway, he put on a GREAT show. :thumbsup:

[ronzo]

13. Anybody remember Dash Rip Rock?

Local boys...

[mitchum]

14. I remember them. I used to play on the same bill with them often...

on the southern post-punk circuit

[jonnyblitz]

16. they were the opening band for The Cramps when I saw them

at the concert I mentioned in my above post. They are awesome. I also saw them at a bar when I lived in Long Beach, CA.

[ronzo]

17. Beat Farmers or Rugburns on the bill?

Just a hunch...

[jonnyblitz]

19. nope. n/t

[ronzo]

21. In honor of Country Dick Montana (R.I.P.)...

Country Dick's Rules of the Road:
http://sdam.com/artists/bf/roadrules.html

Beat Farmers!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

18. From Nawlins-saw them a slew of times

they were friends of my friends' band. Those boys sure could rock (and party)!

[Paragon]

20. Chris Isaak

When he's not crooning to a supermodel, he and his band can really rip it up.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

23. The Reverend Horton Heat

Well, I was workin' on my farm 'bout 1982,
Pullin' up some corn and a little carrot, too
When two low-flying aeroplanes, 'bout a hundred feet high
Dropped a bunch o' bales o' somethin', some hit me in the eye...

So I cut a bale open, an' man was I surprised
Bunch o' large sized baggies, with big white rocks inside
So I took a little sample to my crazy brother Joe
He sniffed it up and kicked his heels, said, "Horton, that's some blow!"

Bales of cocaine, fallin' from low-flyin' plane
I don't know who done dropped 'em, but I thank 'em just the same
Bales of cocaine, fallin' like a foriegn rain
My life changed completely by the low-flyin' planes

So I loaded up them bales in my pick-em-up truck,
Headed west for Dallas, where I would try my luck
I didn't have a notion if I could sell 'em there,
But, thirty minutes later, I was a millionaire...

Bales of cocaine, fallin' from low-flyin' plane
I don't know who done dropped 'em, but I thank 'em just the same
Bales of cocaine, fallin' like a foriegn rain
My life changed completely by the low-flyin' planes

And now I am a rich man, but I'm still a farmer, too
But I sold my farm in Texas, bought a farm down in Peru
And when get so homesick, I think I'm goin' insane,
I travel back to Texas in a low-flyin' plane...

Bales of cocaine, fallin' from low-flyin' plane
I don't know who done dropped 'em, but I thank 'em just the same
Bales of cocaine, fallin' like a foriegn rain
My life changed completely by the low-flyin' planes