Rockabilly History

You wonder what Rockabilly is? Then you are totally right here. I will give you an short overview about the history about Rockabilly what it is and where it comes from.

All begans in the early 1950s when we had music styles like hillbilly, rythms and blues, boogie-woogie, western swing and rock and roll. The term rockabilly is a combination of two words. On one side rock from rock and roll and other the other side hillbilly. Also the other styles which I mentioned above influenced rockabilly.

Carl Perkins

The formally founder of rockabilly was Carl Perkins. He started the hype around rockabilly and all this gone out from Memphis the birthplace of Rockabilly. His first song was "Blue Suede Shoes" - most of you will know this song from Elvis Presley.

The most important influencer in rockabilly where Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. This three guys made rockabilly popular national in 1956.

Rockabilly Girls

Rockabilly was for the teenagers a kind of rebellion, sexuality and freedom. It was an expression of disdain for the workaday world of parents and authority figures. It was different to the normal social norms and therefore they loved it.


Some subcultures of rockabilly where:

• Gothabilly
• Punkabilly
• Psychobilly

If you want to have a more detailed description about the history with all its records and more different bands then I found some interesting links which can help you with that.
http://www.acesandeighths.com/rockabilly.html
http://www.memphisrocknsoul.sitewrench.com/memphismusichistoryrockabilly