Get Free Checker

rockabilly

[ UK /ɹˈɒkɐbˌɪli/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɑkəˌbɪɫi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat

How To Use rockabilly In A Sentence

  • ‘It's just fun, almost a caricature version of rockabilly,’ adds the Gutter Demon's bassist Flipper.
  • The second band upstairs was the rockabilly/swing band the Straight 8s, who were fun ok, I watched _Sha Na Na_ as a child, sue me. Gearchat, sportsfood, bad traffic and good music: a Saturday
  • Psychobilly is just good-time music that uses traditional rockabilly and can get really crazy.
  • I was a bit of a rockabilly in those days, 50's gear, backcombed hair (it was cool, honest), and I used to wear circle skirts with tight polo-necked tops and a very, very cinched waist.
  • A modern day rockabilly queen, May breathes new life into an old genre, and her use of a bodhran is a quirky touch that fits her highly percussive sound to a T. 's 24-year-old bright young thing Victoria Hesketh AKA Little Boots is being tipped by the Expecting Rain
  • For a man who was known to record some of the most fiery roots music this side of the Mississippi, he was usually not featured belting out some rambunctious R & B or scorching rockabilly.
  • ‘I Send My Love to You’ starts slowly but is rescued by a rockabilly shuffle.
  • Rockabilly and doo-wop provide the sturdy structures, with a nod to the skiffle of the Quarrymen as he sings "Long, long lost John" over the fade of "I'm Losing You", in a deliberate echo of Lonnie Donegan's version of a song borrowed from Woody Guthrie. The legacy of John Lennon
  • Who needs a Subway Series when you've got the pompadoured rockabilly boys of Union Pool going head to head with the tattooed punk princes of Sweetwater in your own back yard?
  • He had seared rock 'n' roll culture with an apocalyptic brew of punk, ska, rockabilly, dub - you name it - and then he seemed to just walk away.
View all