This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of ...

This is American Routes, celebrating the National Endowment for the Arts 2024 Heritage Fellows. Rosie Flores originally from San Antonio, Texas is a well-traveled singer, guitarist, and songwriter ...

TUPELO – With his reconstructed 1940s Vega guitar in his hands, Dale Rushing's eyes gleam as he talks about rockabilly music and the many Mississippi artists who play or were influenced by it. A ...

There are times when the Southwestern twang at the heart of the Joeys’ new release, “Sonoran Dreams,” invites you to imagine an aspiring rockabilly trio of the 1950s. Other highlights sound like they ...

Like many veteran country stars, Narvel Felts has his own best-of collection on Germany's Bear Family Records, complete with a detailed CD booklet that includes annotations by Felts himself as well as ...

As Robbie Stokes has no doubt documented over the past year in this space, Carbondale has seen a healthy profusion of bands that performed many varied types of music. The decade of the 1970s had seen ...

Forty-five years ago the world got its first recorded blast of the Stray Cats when the rockabilly trio from Long Island, then living in London, released its first single, “Runaway Boys.” And these ...