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Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
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Friday, August 13

Ladies...please.

Ah... Sparkle Moore. Under-appreciated princess of wild, raucous, obscuro rock n' roll. An acquired taste perhaps, but a fine vintage nonetheless. It wasn't too long ago that I praised the folks at Aquarium Drunkard for their wonderful blend of "then and now." This post from late last month is more evidence to their credit.

Now, Rockabilly was and is, like a lot of music, male dominated, but that doesn't mean that there never were or never will be "kittens" who could hang with the "cats." Wanda Jackson's more hell-cat than kitten and it makes alot of sense that her name came up in the aforementioned AD article. Though, I wonder, just as I did when I got my very own copy of Ace's Good Girls Gone Bad (Weird, Wild, And Wanted), why one particular lady was left out.

Dubbed "the female Elvis", teen-queen Janis Martin could rock, roll, and bop with the best of them. A personal favorite, "Bang Bang" comes to mind. "Two Long Years" is another side, among others that deserves to be highlighted.