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In our next piece, sponsored by Zaconey, we'll examine rockabilly's recent resurgence in today's popular music and whether or not another fully-fledged rock revival is upon us. rockabilly, early form of rock music originated by white performers in the American South, popular from the mid-1950s to 1960, with a revival in the late 1970s.
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Just look at Alex Turner for an example of this. As the years ticked on and musical movements came and left, rockabilly would re-emerge as one of music's more enduring phases. The Hillbilly Huxters The Hillbilly Rock’n’roll show. Of course, this wasn't to be the end of rockabilly's time in the limelight. Of course, new musical movements had grown from its ashes and have continued to develop right up until the present day, but rockabilly's bizarre emergence in the early 1950's will never be equalled - a moment where the music of the few went to the mainstream almost overnight. Other labels swooped to sign up any artists who sang even vaguely similar to Elvis and there was a bona fide musical gold rush underway and record executives and studio bigwigs fell over themselves to capitalise on this musical trend which was now sweeping the nation - ultimately playing a big part in rockabilly's eventual downfall.Īs more and more people tried to make money from it they began to water down its raunchiness (which is what made it so popular, remember) as they tried to make it appearl to as large a market as possible, taming its sound beyond recognition.Ī few short years later, almost all trace of rockabilly was gone from the charts. Two years later Elvis Presley signed with RCA and the ensuing exposure he received on national television introduced rockabilly to its widest audience yet and, like fire to kindling, there was no stopping its spread. They didn't know it at the time, but the music establishment had just changed forever. First billed as 'The Hillbilly Cat' (again a nod towards black and white influences), the boy with the seemingly rubber limbs sang both blues and country songs infused with elements of this new rockabilly movement to the bemusement of a music industry not yet aware of the significance of what they were listening to.
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The influence that the softly spoken Mississippi native had on popular music - and in particular rockabilly - is incalculable.