Today’s episode sounds like a Good Bye just to say hello again in two weeks. Indeed the show won’t be hosted anymore from the Wueste Welle studio in Germany. It won’t change that much as Wueste Welle will still air the show at the same time. So for you listener, the story continues… Dwight Yoakam [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rockabilly’
29.03.2012 – The Last Hour
Posted: 29th March 2012 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Bakersfield Sound, blues, country, delta blues, Dwight Yoakam, Mike Ness, Pablo Casals, Robert Johnson, Rockabilly, steel-guitar, The Booze Bombs
16.02.2012 – Double-Bass Special
Posted: 16th February 2012 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Bill Black, blues, BR5-49, country, doghouse, double bass, honky tonk, Lee Rocker, Rockabilly, slap bass, Willie Dixon
In this episode we intend to broadcast green music: we save some electricity. No electric bass. The big doghouse or double-bass is ruling! In roots music that huge and powerful instrument sets the beat and the melodic line and sounds like a heartbeat. The doghouse, stand-up, slap bass, double-bass or whatever it’s called is the [...]
02.02.2012 – European Honky-Tonk
Posted: 2nd February 2012 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Arnold Baker & The Tuxedos, blues, country, double bass, Europe, France, Germany, Hillbilly Boogiemen, John Mellencamp, Mountain Men, Rockabilly, Ronnie Hayward, The Booze Bombs, The Juke Joint Pimps, twang, vinyl, Webb Wilder
Since the American soldiers landed in Europe in 1944, the Europeans absorbed their culture through the clothes and the music they imported. Jazz, rock’n’roll and blues as well as blue jeans became well-exported American idioms. British bands of the sixties proved they could learn the blues without being raised in Mississippi and make it their [...]
29.09.2011 – From Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico
Posted: 29th September 2011 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: blues, Chess Records, Chicago, country, George Thorogood, Hank Williams, Honeyboy Edwards, honky tonk, Rockabilly, Steve Earle, T-Bone Burnett, unplugged, vinyl
In this episode Honeyboy Edwards in Heaven is taking us to Chicago where George Thorogood is paying tribute to Chess Records. We are dreaming all the time of honky tonk queens who haunt our songs. In the Gulf of Mexico Steve Earle is doing introspection in the shadow of Hank Williams and we are mixing [...]
15.09.2011 – Rockabilly Rumble
Posted: 15th September 2011 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: Brian Setzer, Buddy Holly, double bass, echo, Hayden Thompson, Rockabilly, twang
This episode is 100% rockabilly to close the summer. We are rumbling with dead or alive rockabillies like the Booze Bombs, Brian Setzer, Buddy Holly, Hayden Thompson and more. Twang guitars, slap basses and much echo from the past to the present !
07.07.2011 – Cruisin’ in July
Posted: 7th July 2011 by Steffan Rock in PodcastTags: country, Elvis, George Jones, Memphis, Rockabilly, songwriters, Sun Records
Featuring new american songwriters and their songs ideal for cruising on the highway, George Jones divorcing perhaps because of boppin’ rockabilly women and why it’s all right with Elvis in July ever since ’54.