Rockabilly
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Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music. It dates back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South. As a genre, it blends the sound of Western musical styles
Classic instruments associated with rockabilly are a hollow-body electric guitar, an upright bass, and a pared-down drum kit.
Elvis Presley in a promotional shot for Jailhouse Rock in 1957
Bill Haley and His Comets during a TV appearance
Teddy & The Tigers, a Finnish rockabilly band from Kerava, pictured in Helsinki, 1978
Psychobilly
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Psychobilly is a rock music fusion genre that fuses elements of rockabilly and punk rock. It has been defined as "loud frantic rockabilly music", it has also been said that it "takes the traditional c
The Cramps are progenitors of psychobilly.
The Meteors are the first definitive psychobilly band.
Demented Are Go's singer's stage blood make-up is an example of the horror-film schtick some psychobilly bands adopted.
The influential German band Mad Sin in 2008. From a psychobilly fashion perspective, note the bassist's red-dyed pompadour and the guitarist on the right's crop cut sides.