Former Elvis Presley guitar player and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer James Burton, along with other judges, has selected a Charleston band as one of the 16 finalists in a global rockabilly singing ...

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 ...

Rockabilly Hall of Famer Billy Adams, who wrote and recorded the rockabilly staple "Rock, Pretty Mama," has died. He was 79. Adams died Saturday in Westmoreland, Tennessee. His funeral was held Monday ...

In July 1955, 17-year-old country singer Wanda Jackson - the future first lady of rockabilly - first shared a stage with a young man from Memphis named Elvis Presley. Jackson had graduated from her ...

Rockabilly Hall of Famer Billy Adams, who wrote and recorded the rockabilly staple "Rock, Pretty Mama," has died. He was 79. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Adams died Saturday in ...

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 ...

Irish singer Imelda May is a walking, talking, singing embodiment of the 1950s. She wears leopard-print sweaters, tight bad-girl jeans and her... Imelda May: Madly In Love With Rockabilly Imelda May: ...

TERRY GROSS, HOST: 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 ...

This 2002 photo released by Redbush Classics Records shows rockabilly Hall of Famer Billy Adams performing in Hemsby, England. Adams, who wrote and recorded a rockabilly staple “Rock, Pretty Mama,” ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rockabilly Hall of Famer Billy Adams, who wrote and recorded the rockabilly staple "Rock, Pretty Mama," has died. He was 79. Adams died Saturday in Westmoreland, Tennessee. His ...