The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44867   Message #663206
Posted By: tandrink
05-Mar-02 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: Gene Vincent & Cliff Gallup
Subject: RE: Gene Vincent & Cliff Gallup
Glad to see there are other rockabilly fans out there. Anybody have any insights or opinions of why rockabilly is an all but forgotten art form. Other music (folk in the 60's, swing in the mid 90's) have had revivals, but rockabilly is seen strictly as nostalgia. You could make the argument that the Stray Cats led a rockabilly revival in the 80's (BTW Brian Setzer, who is a wonderful guitar player, openly admits to being heavily influenced by Gallup and Cochran), but I don't think one band a revival makes.

Would love to see some young rockabillys come out and crank it up a notch.

That being said, if it became mainstream, it probably wouldn't be as cool