Remastered 1958 Sessions with the Jack Hansen Combo and the Ray Charles Singers.

Buddy Holly fans will be familiar with the tracks on this album, but will never have heard them in such startling fidelity as they are presented here. The original overdubs made in 1959 and 1960 were recorded on fairly primitive equipment and the copy tape used originally of Buddy’s voice and guitar demos also lacked fidelity. Producer Chris Hopkins has spent many hours on the original recordings, creating correctly timed and superb quality re-mixes of the tracks. Chris has achived more than we ever thought possible and we believe the sound on this album cannot be bettered.
Buddy Holly’s ‘apartment tapes’ are well-known, particularly the six songs he wrote in December 1958 and recorded on his Ampex 401A tape-recorder. Many fans prefer Buddy’s original guitar and vocal demos to the later overdubbed versions. But the Jack Hansen versions – using some of New York’s finest session musicians, who were never really a Combo – are still the ones that most fans remember. There were many flaws in the overdubbing, emphasised by the fact that Buddy Holly never envisaged the tracks he made being used to create commercial releases and thus did not stick to strict tempo timing. And the equipment used to mix the original 3-track tapes was primitive compared to today’s computer-based technology. Modern technological advances have enabled us to remix the tracks and errors in timing have also been corrected by producer Chris Hopkins. Chris spent many hours on each track, creating the best versions you will ever hear of the six recordings.

1. That’s What They Say (Mono) (2:15)
2. What to Do (Mono) (1:57)
3. Peggy Sue Got Married (Mono) (2:07)
4. That Makes It Tough (Mono) (2:31)
5. Crying Waiting Hoping (Mono) (2:14)
6. Learning the Game (Mono) (2:14)
7. Studio Talk (0:12)
8. That’s What They Say (2:13)
9. Crying, Waiting, Hoping (mono created stereo) (2:12)
10. Count-In (0:05)
11. Learning the Game (2:13)
12. Peggy Sue Got Married (2:06)
13. Studio Talk (0:10)
14. What to Do (1:57)
15. Studio Talk (0:11)
16. That Makes It Tough (2:28)

More information on: www.rollercoasterrecords.com

Vintage Makeup: Why the 50s Look is Back in Style

The 50s look, especially rockabilly, is back in style with a vengeance. This is because women from the 50s looked hip, beautiful, and extremely sexy. Wearing a 50s style can give you a Hollywood glamour that you never knew was in you. The true 50s look is not one thing and one thing only; there are many different elements of the 50s that you can make work for you. Don’t be afraid to experiment with the latest vintage trends to find the look that is right for you.

Rockabilly History

Rockabilly is a style of music that was born in the 1940s and 50s. It was a mixture of rock n’ roll and hillbilly music, hence the name rockabilly. In the 50s, it was a new type of music that many people did not approve of, but others absolutely loved. Individuals who embraced this type of music also embodied a certain style of dress and makeup. Men wore greased-back hair, bowling-style shirts, and tight jeans with rolled-up hems. Women wore red lipstick, swing party skirts that would flare during dancing, and intricate pinup and roll-up hairdos. Swing and boogie-woogie dancing was often done at rockabilly shows, and it became wilder over time.

Rockabilly Style

The rockabilly look has not changed a lot in modern times. Men and women still embrace this style of dress, makeup, dance, and music because it is sexy, wild, and a lot of fun. If you are dressing up in a rockabilly style, you should consider wearing a knee-length wiggle skirt or a full circle vintage skirt that is poofy and swirly. If you do not like this style, you can also choose to wear a tight pencil skirt that goes over the knees. This is often paired with a tight blouse that buttons up the front. The color should coordinate with the skirt, though white is always a good option. A cardigan sweater can be worn over the shirt in chilly weather or to complete the look. This might sound extremely 50s housewife and wholesome, but it is made flirty by the tightness of the different elements of clothing, cute high heels, and seamed tights. You can look fabulous, sexy, and totally ready to dance the night away. Polka dots, red, and black are popular rockabilly colors as well as classic Vince Ray and tartan prints.

Catlike Eyeliner

In order to complete the look, you need to pair your rockabilly clothing style with the right 50s makeup and hair. Your makeup should consist of red lipstick, black liquid eyeliner, and a flawless complexion. You might need to practice the liquid eyeliner a few times to make sure that you have a perfect line over your eyelid that is not messy. A small swoop at the end of the lash line makes your eyes look bigger and gives the appearance of thick, lush lashes. Black liquid eyeliner should always be paired with black mascara. If you want to go all out, you can apply false eyelashes to your eyelids for extremely lush eyelashes that will knock them dead.

The Importance of Red Lipstick

Women from the 50s, especially the sexiest and most flirtatious women, always wore red lipstick. This provides the perfect pout needed for a night of dancing, drinking, and debauched flirting with eligible bachelors. Red lipstick can look good on every complexion as long as you choose the right shade of red. Think about blueish-red for fair, pink complexions and orange-red for olive and darker skin. Dark reds can look great on any type of complexion as long as the confidence is there to pull off the look.

Rockabilly Hair

The last item that you need to focus on is the perfect rockabilly hairdo. Soft waves and curls were popular in the 50s, so it might be time to get out your hot curlers. If you have long hair, you can roll the front away from your face in a pin-curl and secure it with bobby pins. A ponytail is also very elegant for a fabulous 50s lady. If you have short hair, you can curl your hair, brush it out slightly, and angle the curls away from your face. This is an elegant look that will let you dominate the dance floor with boogies and jives in no time.

By information from Ralph, owner of Rhythm Bomb Records, after 10 years of producing CDs (and one LP, Huelyn Duvall - Ramblin and Boppin) Rhythm Bomb Rec. will start a series of vinyl singles:

RBR-45-1 Doug Wilshire A She Mystifies Me B Thought A Little bit Bout You
RBR-45-2 The Birddoggin Daddies A Hot Rod Baby B Hoochie Coochie Bop
RBR-45-3 Ruby Ann A No, I Wont Cry B Ill Never Get Rich
RBR-33-1 Marc and The Wild Ones A1 Boppin Mary Lou A2 Rockin Beat B1 Real Rockin Baby B2 Thats Why Shes Gone

More information can be found on: http://64834.webhosting23.1blu.de/rbr/ 

“We’re not your typical cats-and-kittens rockabilly band,” says Symphony Tidwell, upright-bass player for The Living Deads. “We’re not cookie-cutter at all. We’re still in the roots-rockabilly genre, but we push the energy level as far as we can.”

Her boyfriend, drummer Randy McKnight, says, “We’re definitely unpredictable from night to night. Even when we’re playing at a little dinner place, they get the full-on rockabilly experience.”

The Denver-based trio, which also includes vocalist-guitarist Nate Harris, will appear in a free concert tonight at the Buzzbin Art & Music Shop at 339 Cleveland Ave. NW in downtown Canton. The set, starting at 9 p.m., will mix original tunes, such as “Possessed By Death,” “Mama Don’t Cry” and “Antisocial,” with covers of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Buddy Holly.The Living Deads’ story is a colorful one, told in fond detail by Tidwell. She was living in Florida and competing in roller derby three years ago when she and her boyfriend went to see a concert by his favorite band, the Hillbilly Hellcats, whose drummer was McKnight.

“I was bored with my current situation,” Tidwell recalls. At the show, she started talking to McKnight.

Several days later, she heard from McKnight, who ended up sending her a plane ticket to Denver. “I packed two cardboard boxes and a dream, and I never went back,” she says.

“Randy decided I should play upright bass. So I’m waitressing and saving all my tip money to buy a bass, and the next thing I know I’m playing Hillbilly Hellcats gigs as one of them! Lance, their bass player, taught me to play slap bass.”

For the past year and a half, she and McKnight have been touring the country as The Living Deads, living full-time in a 28-foot Ford Chateau Sport RV. “Home is where we park it,” she says cheerily. “We call it Irv.”

These rockin’ lovebirds have served as the band’s rhythm section, with a series of guitarist-lead vocalists that they comically “kidnapped” in various cities and led onstage with burlap bags over their heads. Recently, they’ve settled on Harris as their full-time front man, and have begun recording an album with him.

“Symphony and I sing back-up. Some songs we sing lead on, sometimes on a dare,” says McKnight, an Akron native who attended Springfield and Green high schools before leaving the area 20 years ago.

As for life in an RV, Tidwell says, “We do everything on there. We do all our cooking on the RV, we record, we make our T-shirts — I draw them and Randy screenprints them.” Most nights, the duo park in Walmart lots where RVs are encouraged.

“The RV life’s interesting, most of the time,” McKnight says with a chuckle. “Sometimes you get weird knocks at your door.”

Ukrabilly Bang! #7 (Official Music Video)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YkHMoJ45UN0

We would like to present the online version of the UKRABILLY BANG #7 film. This film contains 20 songs from all the bands that participated in the 2011 Ukrabilly Bang, except of the Meteors.

Alas the DVD won't be available at this year's Bang, it will be released later this year and, in addition to online version, will include interviews, burlesque numbers, etc.

UKRABILLY BANG! #7 (Official Music Video) tracklist:
Rollin' Coffin - Five
the Creeps - Creeps On Bandana
Dillberriezz - Сука (Suka)
Руки'в Брюки - Кто тусил, тот знает
Ot Vinta - Рок-н-ролл для черепах (The Turtles' Rock-n-Roll)
Ati Edge and the Shadowbirds - Down Down Down
Banditoz Band - Bottle Of Whiskey
Poison Bar - Ride Zombie's Dick
Betty Boop Lovers - Whenever You're Ready
the CheekyBenders - Gangsters' Chicago
Stressor - B.B. Monster
the Round Up Boys - Lift Off
Gorilla - My Baby Is A Hot Rod
High-Tones - Long Blond Hair
Outer Space - Радіо
Alligators - Catfish Boogie
Freno De Pedales - Night Guest
WiseGuyz - Do The Crab Bop (feat Boppin Bunnies!)
the Silver Shine - Angels To Some
Cherry Casino and The Gamblers - My Babe

Ronnie Dawson with rockabilly trio High Noon and drummer Lisa Pankratz were recorded live and in the studio while on a tour that followed their debut concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on April 29, 1994. These recordings are previously unpublished and are being released for the first time anywhere.  His stellar backing band includes High Noon’s Shaun Young, Sean Mencher and Kevin Smith along with Lisa Pankratz. Includes new versions of classic Ronnie Dawson performed songs such as Yum Yum Yum, Monkey Beat City, Rockin’ In The Grave Yard and Rockin’ Bones. Ronnie Dawson was an incomparable performer who mesmerized crowds with his unique brand of explosive Texabilly, Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll music.

Ronnie began his career as a teen sensation in late 1950s Dallas, Texas. Known as the ‘Blonde Bomber,’ he had some success with early Rockabilly favorites like Action Packed and Rockin Bones. Thanks to those early recordings, a renewed interest in Ronnie developed in England and Europe in the late 1980s. Thus began the most prolific years of his life. Ronnie Dawson was fresh, relevant and exciting, not an ‘oldies’ performer resting on his laurels.

All throughout the 1990s and up to his untimely demise at age 64 in 2003, Ronnie continued to amaze with exciting new material and unforgettable performances. The recordings, released here for the first time, capture what could surely be called the epitome of Ronnie Dawson during the most thriving and creative years of his life. Recorded live in the Lasso Productions Studio, Columbus, Ohio on May 5, 1994 and at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994.

Tracklist:

1. Yum Yum Yum (Live In Studio, Columbus, Ohio on May 5, 1994)
2. Fool About You (Live In Studio, Columbus, Ohio on May 5, 1994)
3. Who Was That Cat (HIGH NOON) (Live In Studio, Columbus, Ohio on May 5, 1994)
4. Up Jumped The Devil (Live In Studio, Columbus, Ohio on May 5, 1994)
5. Glory Bound (HIGH NOON) (Live In Studio, Columbus, Ohio on May 5, 1994)
6. Beaumont Boogie (HIGH NOON) (Live In Studio, Columbus, Ohio on May 5, 1994)
7. Rockin’ In The Cemetery (Live In Studio, Columbus, Ohio on May 5, 1994)
8. Monkey Beat (Live In Studio, Columbus, Ohio on May 5, 1994)
9. Red Hot Mama (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)
10. The Cat’s Were Jumpin’ (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)
11. Yum Yum Yum (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)
12. The Worrying Kind (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)
13. Shim Sham Shimmy (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)
14. Down In Mexico (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)
15. Party Time (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)
16. Acoustic Jam (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)
17. I’m Tore Up (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)
18. Up Jumped The Devil (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)
19. Rockin’ Bones (Live at the James Dean Rockabilly Weekender, Marion, Indiana on June 25, 1994)

!!! DEMENTED ARE GO !!!

28.05.2012 - Live @ KSET, ZAGREB - Croatia

Ticket: 65Kn pre-sale (prox. 8.5E) / 80Kn on gig date (prox. 10.5E)

More information on:

http://www.facebook.com/events/289833431075718/ http://www.last.fm/event/3177880+Demented+Are+Go%21+at+KSET+on+28+May+2012

Program of the festival and more information can be found on:

http://tearitupfestival.net