Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Bill Haley are some of the performers whose faces have appeared on the cover of American Music Magazine, a Swedish journal dedicated to documenting the history of American ...

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 ...

Richard Burton of Bloomfield is wearing a black T-shirt, dark blue denim jeans with four-inch cuffs and a shiny pompadour. His bangs are coated in gobs of pomade. A wallet chain stylishly dangles from ...

Back in rock and roll's infancy, travelling revue shows were common not to mention a great bargain for fans. Best known as a Stray Cat, Slim Jim Phantom's Rockabilly Circus brings a modern retro ...

Fans of all types of country music — from Top 40 country to bluegrass to rockabilly to roots-rock to folk and outlaw — can ...

Robert Plant celebrated the passion of rockabilly fans in England and recalled the ones who spent nights “taking the piss” out of him. In the final episode of his Digging Deep podcast series, he ...

Denmark has more going on than large dogs and pastries. There's also loud rock 'n' roll -- at least the equal of our own homegrown hard rock. Volbeat, for instance, a band from Copenhagen, is well ...

Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom chose a career path that put him in the same room with countless musical legends. Yet to hear him tell the story, it was largely just happenstance. When they came ...

Throughout her extraordinary career, Brenda Lee has transcended genre boundaries and solidified her place as one of the most versatile female artists of the 20th century. Singer-songwriter Jackie ...

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 ...

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 the originators of rockabilly.