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• It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even…
• As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during…
• Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
• For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
• I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I…
• I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on…
• I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all…
• I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?
• I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.
• I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
• I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now,…
• I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

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