Viva La Razabilly!

I don't really know too much about rockabilly - apart from the mid-1950s guys like Johnny Burnette, early Elvis and Carl Perkins, and then the 80s groups like The Cramps and the Stray Cats. It's always been a alternative music genres that I liked hearing when I heard it, but never had the energy to chase it all down.

But I got a big history lesson in rockabilly history of Phoenix and the Southwest's Latino influences from a great cover story in this week's Phoenix New Times called Viva La Razabilly.

When I started reading it today, I thought it was just gonna be a tie-in piece to the AZ rockabilly scene because of last weekend's AZ Rockabilly concert - but it became much more. Part history lesson, part race relations course, part empathy for promoters piece, part car trivia lesson and more.

Writer Niki D'Andrea has really researched her old time Phoenix rockabilly history and turned in a splendid piece that anyone with a history of 'local music scenes' would totally enjoy.