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Every Thursday night we have a Rockabilly fest here at the Blooze. Several Clubs like the Cruisers, the Rattlers, the Invaders, or the Mechanical Assholes are regulars on these nights. But not just Clubs show up on Thursdays, the crowd that visits the Blooze Bar varies a lot. Linked to the Rockabilly Night and as part of this culture we also have a Car Show every Thursday. Please also look at our Gallery! Check out our calendar to get more information on these events!

What is Rockabilly

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, and emerged in the early-1950's.
The term "rockabilly" is a portmanteau of "rock," from rock and roll, and "hillbilly", the latter a reference to the country music (often called "hillbilly music" in the 1940s and '50s) that contributed strongly to the style's development. Other important influences on rockabilly include Western Swing, blues music, boogie woogie, and Jump blues. Although there are notable exceptions, its origins lie primarily in the Southern USA.
The influence and popularity of the style waned in the 1960s. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, rockabilly enjoyed a major revival of popularity that has endured to the present, often within a rockabilly enthusiast subculture.



Origins

There was a close relationship between the blues and country music from the very earliest country recordings in the 1920s. Jimmie Rodgers, the first true country star, was known as the "Blue Yodeler," and most of his songs used blues-based chord progressions, although with very different instrumentation and sound than the recordings of his black contemporaries like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Bessie Smith.[1]
During the 1930s and 1940s, two new sounds emerged that mixed country with current black musical styles. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were the leading proponents of Western Swing, which combined country singing and steel guitar with big band jazz influences and horn sections; Wills' found massive popularity. After blues artists like Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson launched a nationwide boogie craze starting in 1938, country artists like Moon Mullican, the Delmore Brothers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and the Maddox Brothers and Rose began recording what was known as "Hillbilly Boogie," which consisted of "hillbilly" vocals and instrumentation with a boogie bass line.[2]
The Maddox Brothers and Rose were at "the leading edge of rockabilly with the slapped bass that Fred Maddox had developed".[7] [8] Others believe that they were not only at the leading edge, but were one of the first, if not the first, "Rockabilly" group. [9]
Emmylou Harris believes that performers such as Rose Maddox have never received the recognition they deserve. She says part of this is due to what she calls a reluctance in American society to celebrate the value of white country and roots music. [10]
Zeb Turner's February 1953 recording of "Jersey Rock" with its mix of musical styles, lyrics about music and dancing, and guitar solo, [11] is another example of the mixing of musical genres in the first half of the 1950s.
Bill Monroe is known as the originator of Bluegrass, a specific style of "country" music. Many of his songs were in blues form, while others took the form of folk ballads, parlor songs, or waltzes. Bluegrass was a staple of "country" music in the early 1950s, and is often mentioned as an influence in the development of rockablly.[3]

The Honky Tonk sound, which "tended to focus on working-class life, with frequently tragic themes of lost love, adultery, loneliness, alcoholism, and self-pity", also included songs of energetic, uptempo Hillbilly Boogie. Some of the better known musicians who recorded and performed these songs are: the Delmore Brothers, the Maddox Brothers and Rose, Merle Travis, Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Tennessee Ernie Ford.[4]

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Many people think when they see my patch (It's a Rebel Flag) That I am a racist. We are not!!

 

 

  

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