Rock 'n' Roll - Rockabilly - Psychobilly chart April 2020
1 : King Cats : Coast To Coast
The long awaited brand new album from one of the British Rock 'n' Roll scene's finest and most popular bands.
2 : Matchbox : The Albums 1979-'82
65 track 4 CD box set rounding up all four of the Rockabilly Revival band's albums and singled for Magnet Records between 1979 and 1982.
3 : Jack Rabbit Slim : Killa Dilla
Limited Edition ten inch coloured vinyl album from one of the most popular bands of the UK rockabilly scene in recent years.
4 : Everly Brothers : Down In The Bottom
Three disc set featuring the original albums The Hit Sound (1967), The Everly Brothers Sing (1967) and Roots (1968) plus bonus rarities.
5 : Don Lang : Time to Jive - His Rockin' Best
26 tracks one of Great Britain's first rock 'n' rollers and was a regular on BBC TV's Six Five Special, featuring a mix of tracks from his original single, EP and LP releases.
6 : Tami Neilson : Chicka Boom!
New album from an artist with real range and a powerful voice that can take on big ballads, golden-age country, soul-infused R&B, rockabilly and rock 'n' roll.
7 : Sirocco Bros : Down Home
The third album from the mysterious Sirocco Brothers - a fantastic collection presenting the perfect blend of loud 'n' lo-fi rockabilly and blues bop.
8 : The Hi-Fi's : Turn Up The Volume
Great British trio playing mostly original songs, with a handful of select covers, performed in a style that mixes 1950s Rock 'n' Roll and vintage rockabilly.
9 : Rocky Burnette : Rock Solid
The son of Johnny Burnette returns with a 2-disc set featuring a brand new studio album plus a previously unreleased live concert from New York back in 1981.
10 : Surfin' Dead : Dead-A-Rama + Powertwang
The two albums of P Paul Fenech's psycho-surf-instrumental side project together as a double CD release. First time on CD for Dead-A-Rama.
11 : Webb Wilder : Night Without Love
The new studio album from one of the great Americana artists, Webb Wilder, combining potent originals with well selected covers.
12 : Boppin' B : We Don't Care
Germany's busiest Rock 'n' Roll band are back with their new album deliver fifteen great tracks with the recognizable Boppin' B sound.
13 : Eddie Bo : Slippin' And A Slidin'
Double CD presenting 43 classic recordings from Eddie Bo, one of New Orleans' greatest Rhythm & Blues performers.
14 : Long Tall Texans : Headless
Limited Edition coloured vinyl ten-inch album with brand new recordings from longstanding psychobilly scene favourites the Long Tall Texans.
15 : John Lewis : 33 Years Stage By Stage
Double disc set celebrating his first 33 years - featuring The Rimshots, Johnny Bach, John Lewis Trio, Solo, session work and more.
16 : P Paul Fenech : Happy Halloween
All four of Fenech's sold-out limited edition Halloween 45s, A & B sides, together with two new creepy tracks, making up a great set of stompin' psychobilly from Rock 'n' Roll's darkest depths.
17 : The Blackjacks - Elvis Presley Posters
The debut album from The Blackjacks, one of the most exciting new talents on the ‘roots’ music scene today with their superb blend of Rockabilly, Rock 'n' Roll, Country and Skiffle.
18 : V.A. - Boppin' By The Bayou - Feel So Good
28 cool rockin' rarities from the hottest studios of steamy Louisiana inc. Al Ferrier, Margaret Lewis, Thumper Jones, Larry Hart, Johnny Jano etc.
19 : V.A. - Play It Again Volume 1
32 '50s follow-ups and copy-cat wannabes including Jackie Brenston, Lloyd Price, The Spaniels, Roy Brown, Smiley Lewis, The Harptones, LaVern Baker and many more.
20 : Rene Hall : My Kind Of Rocking
29 tracks from possibly the most underrated musician in America Rhythm & Blues and Rock 'n' Roll history, all dating from between 1950 and 1960
21 : v.a. : More Long Lost Honkers and Twangers
24 wonderful imstrumentals of the rock 'n' roll era - 10 great rarities plus a whopping 14 previously unissued gems by The Ventures, The Ramrods, The Velvetones, The Mus-Twangs and others.
22 : Robert Gordon & Chris Spedding : Tear Up The House
Double CD with 30 great performances spanning over 40 years - from 1978, 1980, 1985 and 2015 - recorded in Boston, New York and Los Angeles. Gordon and Spedding together was an unstoppable combination.
23 : The Meteors : When Guitars Attack - Mental Instrumentals #2
Long awaited second all-instrumental album - a lethal overdose of Paul Fenech's spine-bending Psychobilly guitar backed by The Meteors' pulsating Voodoo-Billy beat.
24 : Poni-Tails : Born Too Late
The Poni-Tails' A and B sides presented in chronological, including the classic title track alongside some lesser-remember smaller hits.
25 : v.a. : Stirring Up Some R&B
25 rockin' Rhythm & Blues gems from Chuck Willis, Bo Diddley, Lulu Reed, Arthur Prysock, The Kingpins, Titus Turner, Pearl Woods, Tiny Topsy and many others.
One of the hottest bands on the UK rock 'n' roll circuit, London five piece band The King Cats love the music rockin' music they play. This is demonstrated through on stage enthusiasm and also on their long awaited new album "Coast To Coast". They know how to keep the dance floor full with a style of Rock 'n' Roll and Rockabilly that takes you back to the Sun Records sound. The Kingcats are not just a 50s cover band, far from it - although their delivery of 1950s classics and lesser known gems will take you back to Rock 'n' Roll's golden era - but when they strike up their self penned numbers you can hardly tell the difference.
Three disc set "Down In The Bottom" focuses on the period from 1966 to 1968 when the Everly Brothers recorded mostly in Los Angeles, searching for a musical direction. It includes the whole of the albums "The Hit Sound" (1967), "The Everly Brothers Sing" (1967) and "Roots" (1968), with bonus tracks including singles and demos, and several tracks which remained unreleased for many years.
"The Hit Sound" album, recorded from December 1966 onwards, featured contemporary rock ’n’ roll and pop covered in Everlys harmony style updated with the cream of the LA session crew including Glen Campbell, Larry Knechtel, Ray Pohlman, Hal Blaine. "The Everly Brothers Sing" was their response to the prevailing ‘youthquake’ band sound straddling the transatlantic. The "Roots" album, pieced together from the LA sessions, successfully finds the Everly Brothers new sound resulting in one of the finest Country Rock albums of the era.
René Hall is quite possibly the most underrated musician in America Rhythm & Blues and Rock 'n' Roll history.
As a guitarist he is certainly among the very best, and he is as equally important as an arranger of some of the finest rock 'n' roll and R&B recordings to come out of Los Angeles. "My Kind Of Rocking" is a collection of René Hall recordings mostly released under his own name - although there are scores of hit records from other artists that he contributed to - but those are already easily accessible.
This 29 track collection covers his work in the studio between 1950 and 1960, hopefully going some way to redressing the balance bringing this man's remarkable career back into the perspective it truly deserves.
