Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makers (Music in American Life) - Softcover

Morrison, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252065387 ISBN 13: 9780252065385

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1998

Synopsis

Looks at the history of rockabilly music, profiling such greats as Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Malcolm Yelvington, and Roy Hall

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Review:

Rockabilly pioneer Carl Perkins once described his brand of music as "a country man's song with a black man's rhythm." This may be simplifying matters a bit, but you can decide for yourself after reading Craig Morrison's rockabilly bible, whose title also tips its hat to Perkins. All the major figures are here, including Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, and Jerry Lee Lewis. But rockabilly is a field particularly rich with obscurities and one-trick ponies, and Morrison makes room for them all. If you want to know about the genesis of Malcolm Yelvington's "Drinkin'Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee," or about Sonny Burgess's taste in clothes (all red, to match his guitar and dyed hair), this is the book for you.

About the Author:

Craig Morrison is a musicologist and bandleader of Craig Morrison & the Momentz. He teaches courses at the McGill Centre for Continuing Education ("History of the Blues," "History of Country Music," and "Wild Thing - Music of the Sixties") in Montreal, and is a radio columnist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0252065387
• ISBN 13: 9780252065385
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368