Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour 09-24-18

We're heading into Fall 2018 and no signs of slowing down with great new music.  Hear the latest from Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis, Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, Webb Wilder, The Hicksville Bombers, The Kokomo Kings, Kid Ramos (in our instru-Mental Breakdown), Marcel Bontempi, Eddie & The Head Starts, Cliff Westfall and Jared Pettys & The Headliners.  Our Heavy Hitter Triple Threat segment honors Ricky Nelson with a NEW cover from Darrel Higham and a classic cover from Creedence Clearwater Revival.  Hear the original "Hot Rod Lincoln" as well as the song it became the answer song for- "Hot Rod Race" and more!

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Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey

Intro Music Bed:  Brian Setzer- "Rockabilly Blues"

Matchbox- "Buzz Buzz A Diddle It"

Marcel Bontempi- "Blue Moon Baby"

Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets- "Crying Inside"

Eddie & The Head Starts- "Midnight Blues"

Webb Wilder- "Hey Mae"

Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis- "Round Too Long"

Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers- "Snake Pit"

Dorsey Burnette- "How Do You Rock"

instru-Mental Breakdown:

Kid Ramos- "Mashed Potatoes and Chili"

The Planet Rockers- "Outta Gear"

Arkie Shibley & His Mountain Dew Boys- "Hot Rod Race"

Charley Ryan & The Livingston Brothers- "Hot Rod Lincoln"

Heavy Hitter Triple Threat:

Ricky Nelson- "If You Can't Rock Me"

Darrel Higham- "Blood From A Stone"

Creedence Clearwater Revival- "Hello Mary Lou"

The Hicksville Bombers- "Beast From The East"

The Kokomo Kings- "Silicone Brain"

Jared Petteys & The Headliners- "Pistol Packin' Mama"

Cliff Westfall- "Baby You Win"

Outro Music Bed: Danny B. Harvey- "Hell Cat Stomp"

Billy Burnette interview part 1/ Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour 10-02-17

Rockabilly Hall Of Famer Billy Burnette joins us for part 1 of 2 of our interview about his family, career and new book & CD titled, Crazy Like Me (which also features Kenny Vaughan: Guitars, Dave Roe: Bass, Jerry Roe: Drums, Kevin McKendree: Keyboards, Bekka Bramlett: Backing Vocals).  This week we talk about his dad Dorsey & Uncle Johnny and the Rock 'n Roll Trio, Ricky Nelson, Glen Campbell, Gary Busey, The Zoo and more!

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Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey
Intro Music Bed:  Brian Setzer- "Rockabilly Blues"

Billy Burnette- "(All I Can Do Is) Dream You"
Segment 1
Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'N' Roll Trio- "Rock Billy Boogie"
Segment 2
Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'N' Roll Trio- "Sweet Love On My Mind"
Dorsey Burnette- "Bertha Lou"
Segment 3
Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'N' Roll Trio- "Tear It Up"
Segment 4
Ricky Nelson- "It's Late"
Segment 5
Billy Burnette- "Honey Hush"
Paul Burlison (with Billy Burnette & Rocky Burnette)- "Train Kept A Rollin'"
Segment 6

Glen Campbell w/ Billy Burnette

Johnny Burnette- "Cincinnati Fireball"
Segment 7
Glen Campbell- "Hey Little One"
Segment 8
Stray Cats- "Baby Blue Eyes"
Billy Burnette- "Crazy Like Me"
Segment 9
Snippet of Mick Fleetwood's Zoo- "Tear It Up"
Billy Burnette- "Tear It Up"

Outro Music Bed: The Texans (Johnny & Dorsey Burnette)- "Rockin' Johnny Home"

Billy Burnette with Paul McCartney and Gary Busey

Dorsey Burnette

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Mark Neill interview part 1/ Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour 05-02-16

Mark Neill/ photo by Craig Packham

Producer Mark Neill is our guest this week and next!  On this episode, we talk about his early band The Unknowns, a tune from Billy Hancock that inspired him to create his studio and hear tunes he worked on from Ricky Nelson, JD McPherson, The Paladins, Deke Dickerson, Big Sandy & The Fly Rite Trio, J Roddy Walston & The Business, Smith's Ranch Boys and Atomic Bombshell.  

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Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey
Intro music bed- Brian Setzer- "Rockabilly Blues"

Mark Neill (l) with JD McPherson (r)

The Paladins- "She Tears Me Up"
Atomic Bombshell- "Big Man"
Mark Neill segment 1
Smith's Ranch Boys- "Hot Temper"
Mark Neill segment 2
The Unknowns- "Dream Sequence"
Mark Neill segment 3
Billy Hancock- "I Can't Be Satisfied"
Mark Neill segment 4
Ricky Nelson- "I'm Walking"
Mark Neill segment 5
Big Sandy & The Fly Rite Trio- "Hold Me"
Mark Neill segment 6

J Roddy recording "Tear Jerk"

Deke Dickerson- "Hot Rod Queen"
Mark Neill segment 7
JD McPherson- "Bossy"
J. Roddy Walston & The Business- "Tear Jerk"

Outro music bed- "Deke Dickerson- "Jumpin' Bean"

"The Cinderblock Vortex"

Big Sandy recording '91

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Soil Of The South studio

Levi Dexter interview part 3, new Linda Gail Lewis and more!

Levi Dexter joins us for part 3 of our "Levi In July" interview series.  On this episode, we talk about this year's "Levi & The Rockats" Viva Las Vegas show, his wife Bernie, Magic, Gretsch Brothers and begin a conversation of his album Roots Man.  We also hear a new track from Linda Gail Lewis and rockers from Billy Burnette, The Blue Cats, JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers, Jai Malano, Marti Brom and Ricky Nelson!!

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Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey

Linda Gail Lewis- "Rockin' My Life Away"
Blue Cats- "Burnette"
Billy Burnette- "Didn't Start Livin'"

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Levi Dexter interview
Segment 1
Levi Dexter & The Gretsch Brothers- "Oakie Boogie"
Segment 2
Levi Dexter & Magic- "Baby Let's Play House"
Segment 3
Levi Dexter & Magic- "All I Can Do Is Cry"
Segment 4
Levi Dexter & The Gretsch Brothers- "Down The Line"
Segment 5
Levi Dexter & The Gretsch Brothers- "7 Nights To Rock"
Segment 6
Levi Dexter- "Roots Man"

JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers- "No Rest For The Wicked"
Jai Malano- "So Good To My Baby"
Marti Brom- "That Crazy Beat"
Ricky Nelson- "One Of These Mornings"






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2 Nicks, 2 Everlys and a lot more!

2 Nicks (Nick Waterhouse and Nick Curran), 2 Everlys (Don & Phil), Blasters, Coasters, Paladins, a blues blast of Big Maybelle, Mud Morganfield with Kim Wilson, an early rockabilly entry from a later country legend and so much more fill the playlist on this week's Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour!

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Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey

Ricky Nelson- "My Babe"

Paladins- "Tore Up"

Nick Curran- "Ain't No Good"

Nick Waterhouse- "If You Want Trouble"

Elvis Presley- "Power Of My Love"

Tweed & The Sugardaddies- "Real Gone Jerk"

The Coasters- "Three Cool Cats"

The Blasters- "Real Rock Drive"

Big Maybelle- "That's A Pretty Good Love"

Mud Morganfield/Kim Wilson- "I Don't Know Why"

George "Thumper" Jones- "Who Shot Sam?"

Everly Brothers- "Claudette"

Junior Brown- "Highway Patrol"

Barry Ryan- "Rockabilly Jamboree"

Jack Scott- "Baby She's Gone"

Chris Isaak- "Crying, Waiting, Hoping"

Ray Campi- "Caterpillar"

Jinx Jones- "You Can't Kill Me 'Cause I'm Already Dead"

Shakedown Combo- "Honey Hush"

Don Everly was born this day in 1937

Don Everly of the Everly Brothers was born this day in 1937 in Muhlenberg County, KY.  Take a look back at some highlights of his career both solo and with his brother Phil-

"Bye Bye Love" with Ricky Nelson

"All I Have To Do Is Dream"

"Wake Up Little Susie" with Phil

"That'll Be The Day" with Phil

"When Will I Be Loved" with Phil

"Yesterday Just Passed My Way Again"

Happy Birthday James Burton

James Burton was born this day in Dubberly, LA in 1939.  Burton is one of the most recognized guitarists for his work with artists like Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley, Dale Hawkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and so many more.  He's members of both the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame.

James on his "chicken picking" style

w/ Ricky Nelson "Hello Mary Lou"

w/ Elvis Presley "Blue Suede Shoes"

"Mystery Train"

w/ Roy Orbison "All I Can Do Is Dream You"

Alex Orbison interview part 3 and much more!!

Mystery Girl Deluxe- 2 LP Vinyl

We continue our talk with Alex Orbison with part 3 of our 4 part interview series and really start to dig in Mystery Girl.  We also hear some high energy tunes from Imelda May, Eddie Clendening, Di Maggio Connection and a BRAND NEW single from Brian Setzer kicking it off!

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Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey

Brian Setzer- "Let's Shake" (BRAND NEW)

Imelda May- "Five Good Men"

The Robins- "Smokey Joes Cafe"

Eddie Clendening- "Turnip Greens"

Roy Orbison- "The Way Is Love"

Roy Orbison- "She's A Mystery To Me"

Roy Orbison- "The Only One"

Roy Orbison- "In The Real World"

Roy Orbison- "(All I Can Do Is) Dream You"

Roy Orbison- "Windsurfer"

Ricky Nelson- "Stood Up"

Sanford Clark- "The Fool"

Di Maggio Connection- "Every Day"

Rick(y) Nelson's appearance at an oldies reunion in 1971 inspires "Garden Party"

Rick Nelson (as he called himself now instead of "Ricky") had a hit in 1972 with the song "Garden Party".  The inspiration came from an appearance at a Rock 'N Roll Revival show at Madison Square Garden on October 15, 1971.  Also on the bill were Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Bobby Rydell and others.  He played some of his hits but then played "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones.  He heard a lot of boo's from the audience and felt it was because he was playing new songs and not his older hits that everyone knew of his.  See this great song here from Rick as well as John Fogerty's cover...

John Fogerty- "Garden Party" (with Billy Burnette in the band)

Junior Parker dies this day in 1971

Junior Parker died this day in 1971 during surgery for a brain tumor.  He was only 39 but his influence was a big one on Elvis Presley and many others.  He is pictured to the left of Elvis in the photo above.  To the right is Bobby "Blue" Bland.  Elvis covered "Mystery Train" in 1955 as one of his few singles he recorded for Sun Records.  Ike Turner originally signed Parker to Modern Records in 1951.  This got Sam Phillips attention who signed him to Sun in 1953 and produced his version of "Mystery Train" at that time.  He continued to record for various labels until the time of his death including Duke, Capitol, Mercury and others.  Hear several versions of his signature song "Mystery Train" starting with his own...

Junior Parker

Elvis Presley

Brian Setzer

Eric Clapton & Scotty Moore

Rick Nelson

2 important birthdays today in Blues and Rockabilly history- Robert Johnson & Ricky Nelson- check out the video tributes

Robert Johnson was born this day in 1911.  His influence on blues music and the folklore surrounding his life is legendary.  Here's his "Sweet Home Chicago Blues"...

Also Rockabilly legend Ricky Nelson was born this day in 1940.  With more than 50 Hot 100 hits, Nelson was second only to Elvis Presley as the most popular rock and roll artist of the 1950's and 60's.  Here's his "Believe What You Say" smash hit...featuring James Burton on guitar...