Your favorite rockabilly rocker

[brentspeak]

For the sake of this particular poll, we'll consider only the rockabilly phases of a performer's career: i.e., Elvis at Sun, but not later Elvis; same with Roy Orbison, etc.

[MrCoffee]

1. The Reverend Horton Heat

[SteppingRazor]

2. For "Bales of Cocaine" alone!

:headbang:

[MrCoffee]

4. don't forget "Nurture My Pig"

pig baby i gotta pig

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Hell yes.

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. Loco Gringos Like Ta Party!

Ole'!

[brentspeak]

5. kick

[swag]

6. Charlie Feathers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Feathers

Good stuff!

Thanks for the poll.

[mark414]

13. why am i not surprised you picked him? he was one of the first to come to my mind too...

[swag]

17. What do you think of Link Wray in this category, Mark?

I used to have this thing about Link Wray
I used to play him every Saturday
God bless Saturday

[mark414]

18. Mark, or Mark E. Smith?

;)

link wray is...well where do you begin with him? like all of the great pioneers he was responsible for so much but nobody knows who he is...:(

[Joey Liberal]

7. Fat Man Wilson n/t

[blitzen]

8. Charlie Feathers or Sleepy Labeef.....Check out this awesome vid

of Charlie circa 1980....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QCvkSu-gHAc

[brentspeak]

23. Thanks for the link. That was cool.

[Colorado Progressive]

9. Brian Setzer

[ceile]

21. Seconded! n/t

[Va Lefty]

29. My pick too...

Hard to pick against early Jerry Lee and Gene Vincent, but my vote goes to Setzer. Love The Stray Cats!!

[Colorado Progressive]

33. Well I am young enough that Brian Setzer made me feel it when it mattered!

And too old apparently to know who some of these other people are :D

And...old enough to not care!

[kwassa]

10. Holly is the greatest songwriter, Cochran an incredible guitar player,

they are all interesting artists .. why compare?

Train kept a rollin' all night long with Rocky Burnette, long before the Yardbirds and Arrowsmith covered the song.

Carl Perkin had blue suede shoes first.

How about favorite faux rockabilly artists? I really like Brian Setzer.

[abq e streeter]

11. Coolest name: Malcolm Yelvington

[mitchum]

12. My vote is for Jerry Lee Lewis...the Ty Cobb of Rockandroll...

psychotic racist white trash who outperformed everyone else.

[abq e streeter]

14. No one's mentioned Billy Lee Riley, so thought I would--Sonny Burgess too

but Elvis on Sun was THE MAN...........Made my first, and hopefully not last, pilgrimage to Sun a couple of years ago. If any rockabilly fans here haven't done that yet, standing in the same room where Elvis, Bill and Scotty broke into That's All Right Mama was a moment I'll never forget, and like I said, plan to do again...

[enigmatic]

15. Hasil Atkins

http://www.hasiladkins.com/

[brentspeak]

24. Good catch!

[ornotna]

16. So many fine choices

Got to go with Gene Vincent though.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8wHG8U0fa1Q

[brentspeak]

25. Sweet Gene Vincent...

Old. And young. And...gone.

[riverdeep]

19. Werley Fairburn, "Everybody's Rockin" n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. Cash, no doubt....

Nothing but Cash!

[brentspeak]

22. more kick

:kick:

[KG]

26. Dave Alvin

[Capn Sunshine]

27. Johnny Burnette actually coined the phrase

His kid was named Rocky, his brother Dorsey's kid was named Billy , at least , that's the apocryphal version Dorsey once told me.

[brentspeak]

28. final kick

:kick:

[Metta]

31. There's good rocking in some Rickie Nelson sides.

Specifically his stuff with James Burton although he later did a great version of Mystery Train. Don't forget the influences: Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

32. Little Richard!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OUVC_xV79M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtgFVk70yMc

[susanna]

34. C'mon Everybody by Eddie Cochran...

...well, that song just STILL gets me going. And I'm oldish. ;-)