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Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music. It dates back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.As a genre, it blends the sound of Western musical styles such as country with that of rhythm and blues, [1] [2] leading to what is considered "classic" rock and roll. [3]
This is a list of musicians who have played rockabilly. For a list of psychobilly musicians, see list of psychobilly bands . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
Psychobilly (or punkabilly) is a rock music fusion genre that fuses elements of rockabilly and punk rock. [1] It has been defined as "loud frantic rockabilly music", [2] it has also been said that it "takes the traditional countrified rock style known as rockabilly, ramp[ing] up its speed to a sweaty pace, and combin[ing] it with punk rock and imagery lifted from horror films and late-night ...
Nevertheless, rockabilly's popularity continued to grow, paving the way for the earliest rock stars like Chuck Berry, [3] Bo Diddley, [4] Little Richard and Fats Domino. [5] Among country fans, rockabilly was not well-regarded. [citation needed] Instead, the pop sounds of singers like Hank Williams and Patsy Cline became popular.
The term "rock and roll" is defined by Greg Kot in Encyclopædia Britannica as the music that originated in the mid-1950s and later developed "into the more encompassing international style known as rock music". [8] The term is sometimes also used as synonymous with "rock music" and is defined as such in some dictionaries. [14] [15]
Roots rock is a genre of rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music. [1] It is seen as responses to the perceived excesses of the dominant psychedelic and the developing progressive rock. [2]
There was also a second wave of French punk rock which included such acts as Lucrate Milk, Bérurier Noir, Ludwig Von 88, Les Shérifs, Les Négresses Vertes, Les Garçons Bouchers, Les Wampas, Les Satellites or the seminal Mano Negra, which would make the genre evolve towards worldbeat (and whose leader Manu Chao would later have a worldwide ...