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Lee Rocker Talks About The Stray Cats and Rockabilly’s History
Lee Rocker has had great success in music. Starting young, from his career with his breakthrough band the Stray Cats, who sold 10 million albums and earned 23 gold and platinum records, Lee has gone on to make great music … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Miscellanious, Music
Tagged #bass, Ed Simon, Lee Rocker, Rock This Town, rockabilly, Stray Cats
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Lee Rocker Dishes About the Stray Cats, Rockabilly and the Upcoming New Blues Festival in Long Beach
Lee Rocker has had great success in music. Starting young, from his career with his breakthrough band the Stray Cats, who sold 10 million albums and earned 23 gold and platinum records, Lee has gone on to make great music … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Miscellanious, Music, Upcoming Events
Tagged #bass, Ed Simon, Eldorado Park, Lee Rocker, long beach, New Blues Festival, Phantom Rocker and Slick, rockabilly, stand-up bass, Stray Cats
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Album Review: Jessica Lee Wilkes’s “Lone Wolf” EP
Jessica Lee Wilkes is a singer/songwriter and bassist from Paducah, KY who plays “raw, rhythm & blues-tinged rock & roll from a bygone era yet to come”, according to her website. Well-known as the upright bassist and co-vocalist for JD Wilkes … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellanious, Music
Tagged bassist, free dirt records, jessica lee wilkes, Retro, Rock N Roll, rockabilly, the dirt daubers
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Sonny Burgess and The Pacers to perform on June 12th at The Ink and Iron Festival in Long Beach!
Of the many legendary artists that Sun Records spawned in the 1950s, arguably its wildest was Rockabilly legend Sonny Burgess. With his band The Pacers, their performances went off the Richter scale in sheer energy and wild abandon, making even … Continue reading
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Tagged Ink and Iron Festival, Queen Mary, Rock and roll, rockabilly, Sonny Burgess, The Pacers
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Hootenanny 2012 – Orange County
Hot cars, hot women, tattoos, and some hard rocking music. Hootenanny is an annual culture and music festival on the outskirts of Orange County. It is the definitive Orange County music happening. Here’s our photos from our day at … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Photo Essays
Tagged hootenanny, rancid, reverend horton heat, rockabilly
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