This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of ...

Richard Burton of Bloomfield is wearing a black T-shirt, dark blue denim jeans with four-inch cuffs and a shiny pompadour. His bangs are coated in gobs of pomade. A wallet chain stylishly dangles from ...

Kim Lenz and the Jaguars play old school rockabilly with a fire and passion that is often missing from the hordes of retro-shtick, dress up cover bands that plague many music scenes. With a campy ...

Although Arvada doesn’t have a big rockabilly scene, Jimmy Nigg and his brother grew up there — and that’s where they decided to open Rock-A-Billies. The brothers had spent a year looking all over ...

For all its hip-shaking appeal, rockabilly music had a remarkably brief heyday, beginning with Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock in 1955 and all but vanishing from the charts by 1960. But the music ...

Some called it hillbilly rock, others christened it country boogie but long before a moniker had been settled on for it, rockabilly was making a huge impact in 1950s America. The early 1950s was a ...

Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom chose a career path that put him in the same room with countless musical legends. Yet to hear him tell the story, it was largely just happenstance. When they came ...

There is more to Miami’s music scene than meets the eye. But surely, no one thinks, Rockabilly!, when the Magic City is mentioned. What a damn shame, because our city’s seen its fair share of quality ...

Meet the rockabilly enthusiasts devoted to the music and fashion of America's early rock and roll era Bella A Go-Go. Photo: Dave Meehan. John Gibson and Rebecca Smith at the rockabilly night at the ...