Git them geetars twangin’ and join in the Christmas spirit: Here are a couple of rockabilly bands, featuring some excellent axwork.
First up is the Reverend Horton Heat. Here’s what I said two years ago:
The Rev is both the man and the band: Jim Heath on guitar and vocals; Jimbo Wallace on upright bass; Scott Churilla on drums. They’re probably the leading psychobilly band, having been around for 20 years.
I was surprised that their Christmas album was fairly normal and not particularly “psycho” in any way. But the instrumentals pack some heat; two years ago I posted one and now here’s the other. The way the group jams together towards the end reminds me of Booker T. & the MGs on the latter part of their cover of “Something.”
The Honeydippers were a Rockabilly duo that played in Hollywood in the mid Nineties. Danny B Harvey is from Texas and goes back to the Rockabilly revival of the Eighties; he has played with members of The Polecats, The Stray Cats, Nancy Sinatra, Wanda Jackson, and others. He now plays with The Head Cat (with Motorhead’s Lemy and Stray Cats’ Slim Jim Phantom) and The Lonesome Spurs (with Lynda Kay Parker). Brit Gary Twinn was in Twenty Flight Rockers with Harvey. He was later in the bands Dead Horse (with Rat Scabies, Glen Matlock and Derwood Andrews) and Speedtwinn.
The band should not be confused with The Honeydrippers, the Eighties supergroup. Instead, you get a nice mid-tempo original, featuring vocals from Twinn and guitar from Harvey.
The Reverend Horton Heat – What Child Is This — BUY
The Honeydippers – Hoy, Hoy, Hoy (Rockin’ on Xmas Eve) — BUY
Tags: Christmas music, rockabilly, The Honeydippers, Rev. Horton Heat
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yepcats Says:
vive le Rockabilly.
…Yepcats…