You had The Cramps turning up the crazy and turning the genre into Psychobilly, you had The Blasters and Roy Loney & The Phantom Movers and Tex Rubinowitz putting out records that would have you believe 1960s psychedelia and 1970s disco had never happened, and you had the highly stylized New Wave Rockabilly 'cats' (The Stray Cats, The Polecats, The Bopcats) cross-breeding '50s sounds and '80s visuals.Īnd then you had this week's NW4NW featured band, who may have been the unheralded best of the bunch.They started out as Levi & The Rockats, with frontman Levi Dexter and bassist Smutty Smiff as the heart and soul of the band. Special was the second of the two, and is highly recommended.Listening to that record inspired me to pull out some of the other stuff in my collection that fell under what would come to be known as the Neo-Rockabilly sound.
After falling out of CBGB's mainstays The Tuff Darts, Gordon hooked up with the legendary Wray to do two albums of straightforward by-the-numbers Rockabilly. Via I recently picked up a copy Robert Gordon & Link Wray's 1978 album.
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