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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.
Rockabilly music groups (4 C, 91 P) M. Rockabilly musicians (5 C, 7 P) S. Rockabilly songs (29 C, 79 P) Pages in category "Rockabilly" The following 15 pages are in ...
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The origins of rock and roll are complex.Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [1] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music.
Hillbilly Moon Explosion originated in 1998 as part of the Zürich rockabilly scene. [2] The group was founded by the native English and Swiss citizen Oliver Baroni (vocals, bass, guitar) and Italian-Swiss singer Emanuela Hutter. Oliver Baroni was planning to leave his former band, the Hillbilly Headhunters.
The festival was initially intended to take place in or near Paris, but was banned by the French authorities. It featured many leading exponents of progressive rock, such as Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Captain Beefheart, Soft Machine, Ten Years After, Yes and The Nice. The festival was a popular success, with around 20,000 visitors over five ...
New York area rock radio stations such as WPLJ and WPIX encouraged their listeners to destroy disco records and embrace rock and roll. Musically and lyrically, punk rock was the intentional antithesis of the disco scene, the progressive rock genre and the hippie subculture. Early punks played aggressive, quick-paced three-chord rock and roll songs.