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This photo was taken on December 15, 1956 when Elvis did his last Louisiana Hayride performance at the fairgrounds. Stan Lewis is also pictured with his wife Pauline. Stan
autographed it for his friend in France: Dominique Anglares. That's how we got it.
GLEN GLENN
Performing in Palm Springs at the annual Elvis Honeymoon House Show, May, 2010. Photo: Alan Clark
Dave Edmunds at his wedding on the Big Island, Hawaii Courtesy Lou Wolf - marcolou@luckymail.com
Johnny Burnette
Eddie Bond
Sonny Burgess
Jason D. Williams & Sleepy LaBeef Photo: Bill Barker
IMELDA MAY (the hottest rockabilly act going these days) performed in Nashville, TN Saturday, March 13th at the 5 Spot. Her sold-out show was exciting: excellent voice with great stage presence!
RARE PHOTO of Tommy Cassel, from Shreveport, who had two great singles on his own Cassel record label. Here's Tommy Cassel with a home made neck microphone, Linda Brannon and Jerry Kennedy. Photo: Margaret and Alton Warwick
Rockabilly Hall of Fame inductee, Larry Lee Phillipson, age 80, gets ready to record a new album at the Burns Station Sound studio in Burns, TN (September '09).
BILLY LEE RILEY MEMORIAL BENEFIT: The Sunday, August 30th. Newport, Arkansas show at the Silver Moon Club was a great success! Thanks to all who participated. One of the many performers that appeared was Larry Donn pictured above.
BILLY LEE RILEY Newport, AR. Depot Days 2008. (photo courtesy Mike Chojnacki - mikechoj@suddenlink.net)
Darrel Higham (UK's leading guitarist) with new European singing sensation Imelda May at Americana 2009, Newark, UK, Saturday 11th July 2009
Americana 2009 organiser Chris Jackson with Americana headliner James Intveld, Saturday 11th July 2009
CHARLIE RICH Jr. RITCHIE GEE (Event Organiser) and GENE SUMMERS
WILDEST CATS IN TOWN WEEKENDER
SUNDAY 5th JULY 2009 at LOWESTOFT, UK.
Sonny Burgess with Bobby Lollar
ROCKABILLY RAVE 12 producer Jerry Chatabox (left) with artists, Miss Mary
Ann and Lew Williams, on Sunday, June 22nd at the show site.
The weekender was held at Pontins Holiday Centre, Camber Sands,
England, June 19th-23rd. Miss Mary Ann and the Ragtime Wranglers
from Holland played Thursday night. Lew appeared on Friday night,
backed by the Barnshakers from Finland. Larry and Lorrie, the
Collins Kids, were on onstage Saturday night. Photo - Anita Williams
CHARLIE GRACIE plays to SOLD OUT FESTIVAL, SUFFOLK ENGLAND The ULTIMATE 50's ROCK 'N' ROLL
FESTIVAL held at PONTIN's SEASIDE VILLAGE at Lowestoft, England Starred Charlie Gracie and
featured numerous excellent rockabilly bands from the U.S. and Europe - including MAC
CURTIS, JOHNNY POWERS, SANDY FORD, MATCHBOX and Germany's LENNEROCKERS! This pic shows
Charlie on stage before a packed ballroom of 1,300 backed by the incomparable CLASS OF
'58! Charlie returns to Britain again for a month-long tour in November. Kudos to
promoter Ritchie Gee!
INDIANA'S OWN MR. & MRS. ROCKABILLY.
Mandy Marie (wife) and Danny Thompson (husband) each appeared Saturday, June 28th,
at the Radio Radio club in Indianapolis in their respective bands.
Danny open the show with his "Bigger Than Elvis" combo and Mandy closed
the evening with her group, "Mandy Marie and the Cool Hand Lukes".
Art Adams and his band were the night's headliners.
Mac Curtis and Glen Glenn
Hollywood, CA, May 17, 2008 -- Photo: Alan Clark
Bill Haley's Original Comets
21st Century Electronic Press Kit
REGGIE YOUNG
The legendary guitarist was saluted May 3, 2008 as the lastest "Nashville Cat" at
the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville.
Also known as one of "The Memphis Boys", Reggie is
acknowledged as one of the great guitarists in popular music history. He lent
his guitar to the rockabilly explosion in the mid-1950s (with Eddie Bond); Memphis'
hit-producing American Studio in the 1960s; and the expansion of Nashville's recording scene
in the 1970s. His guitar work can be heard on Dobie Gray's "Drift Away," Waylon
Jennings' "Luckenbach, Texas," Wille Nelson's "Always on My Mind" and Reba McEntire's
"Little Rock," the Elvis Memphis Sessions among hundreds of others. Photo: Rockabilly Hall of Fame
One of the highlights of the recent "Northest Rockin' Festival in the World"
weekender in Lapland, Finland was an impromptu duet between Robert Gordon and Marti Brom
on "Fire". They both performed the song with great verve, and the crowd clearly loved
every second of it. Marti was thrilled afterwards, and stated that she's always been a
huge Robert Gordon fan. Also pictured, guitarist Marco Di Maggio.
(Photo: Arjan Deelen -
www.robertgordon.dk)
NARVEL FELTS (pictured here with Huey P. Long) appeared to a sold-out house at the
Dixie Carter Performing Arts Center
in Huntingdon, Tennessee, Saturday, April 19, 2008.
RAY CAMPI and LAURA LEE PERKINS
At Viva Las Vegas, 2008
Photos courtesy: Dominique Anglares
CHARLIE GRACIE and SLEEPY LA BEEF: Two American Originals - for sure ... got together
for an informal jam at the Iron Hill Brewery at the "Great Americana Roots
Ramble" in downtown Media, PA (April 12) where thousands turned out to hear several
great artists all along State St.
Charlie and Sleepy have performed on the same bill in many foreign capitals as well -
including London, England and Helsinki, Finland. They have performed together at the
Lincoln Center in New York last summer as well!
