Talk:List of rockabilly musicians

dwight yokum? doesn't he belong on this list?
 * Not unless you want to include everyone who ever recorded a vaguely-rockabilly-sounding song in their life, which would then include everyone from Alice Cooper to George Michael. wikipediatrix 17:10, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Darrell Higham--belong on the list? He's a devotee of Billy Cochran, and two of his 15+ solo albums, Cochran Connections, vols. 1 and 2, pay tribute to Billy Cochran. He also co-authored Cochran's biography, Don't Forget Me - The Eddie Cochran Story. He has also appeared on a further 50 plus albums, working with a number of American and British rock 'n' roll and rockabilly legends as a studio musician. His latest CD is Kat Men featuring himself and Slim Jim Phantom. Very much rockabilly. It drew the following comments from radio station Motorbilly: "This will undoubtedly please the hard core STRAY CATS fans as the sound is very reminiscent of the 80’s trio’s progressive rockabilly revival style and all you modern day rockabilly devotees will dig the traditional flavour provided by Darrel’s fantastic guitar work and dusky, Cochran-like vocals. Kat Men is a real modern day rockabilly treat." http://www.motorbilly.com/--9/12/06 comments.

I reorganized and expanded the list. Now performers are listed by time period and I've mad a separate heading for artists who are consideredd "psychobilly." this should help give some form to what was just a grab-bag list.Kingandrew 02:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

any thoughts of including Steve Forbert 1978- present thanks

Scope
There are many performers listed here, but some of them never played rockabilly. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley... they were mainstream rock'n'roll. Bill Haley played nothern band style and Little Richard & Chuck Berry also didn't play any rockabilly music. It seems to me that every rock'n'roll musician ist cited as a rockabilly here. That's wrong. Rockabilly artists of the 1950's had these charactaristics:


 * They came from the rural south and were raised on hillbilly music (or country) and blues; later they were influenced by Rhythm and Blues.
 * The songs they recorded were written by themselfs or friends; or it was a r&b or c&w cover
 * The recordings were made between 1954 and 1957/1958 and the band consisted of a singer/rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, a upright bass player (often slapped), often there were also drums and maybe an piano. There were no trumpets, no horns etc.
 * The performers were often featured as regular guests on barn dance stage shows like ELvis on the Louisiana Hayride, Warren Smith, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Eddie Bond and Jimmy & Johnny on the Big D Jamboree, Janis Martin on the Old Dominion Barn Dance, Tommy Spurlin on the Gold Coast Jamboree, Jackie Lee Cochran on the Cowtown Hoedown and so on.

I think Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bill Haley don't fit these characteristics. They were no rockabilly artists. The yodeling cowboy (talk) 11:49, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Ricky Roy
Repeated attempts have been made by a SPA IP to add Ricky Roy. IP claims to be Roy's son, and that Roy has been inducted into something called the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. The claims are unsourced, but I do find Ricky Roy listed as the most recent addition to what appears to be someone's personal website called Rockabilly Hall of Fame. http://www.rockabillyhall.com/ It's not the only place that claims to be the Rockabilly Hall of Fame,so I have no idea how significant this is. Roy's page http://www.rockabillyhall.com/RickyRoy.html is sponsored by his family, which may not be a good sign for the reliability of this site.

This entry should not be added unless Roy has an article with independent reliable sources showing that he is notable. Normally for a musician this would mean meeting WP:MUSICBIO. Maybe his induction meets criterion 7, but it's not clear to me that he can be presumed to be notable based on nothing but that induction. Meters (talk) 06:26, 9 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Agreed. There is no physical location for this "Rockabilly Hall of Fame." It's apparently a personal website that describes itself as a site for friends, fans, relatives and/or the artists themselves to sponsor a page. There are no induction criteria. (Which explains why there are so many more inductees listed than in professional Hall of Fames -- such as Baseball, Country Music or Rock and Roll, for example.) Since the "Rockabilly Hall of Fame" itself doesn't meet Wikipedia notability requirements, it doesn't confer any notability on its "inductees" either. The criteria for inclusion on the List of rockabilly musicians remains that the individual must first have an article on Wikipedia which meets WP:MUSICBIO and WP:GNG guidelines. — Cactus Writer (talk) 17:34, 10 February 2019 (UTC)