Dave Alvin family

Most people have no idea that I am originally from Los Angeles, California. Although I did not know Dave Alvin or his brother or any of these associated bands in this pick from encounters in that area, it's hard to not cheer for that whole scene. I had a couple of times when I got to meet Dave Alvin (none in Southern California.) I did get to drink moonshine with him and a couple of the guys from X in Austin. That was probably the most fun, The other times were interviews. Anyway, this is not all of his projects and side projects, but it's a good sampling. And it does get the bulk of his most popular songs, if not always the version that was the most well known. It gives you something to search for. I put this in my Rockabilly section at home, but it's that and Roots and Americana all at once.

Dave Alvin family

01 Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - California's Burning

02 Dave Alvin - King Of California

03 Dave Alvin & Peter Case - Monday Morning Blues

04 Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Downey To Lubbock

05 Dave Alvin - Harlan County Line

06 Canned Heat with Dave Alvin - Blind Owl

07 Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin - All By Myself

08 Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin - World's In A Bad Condition

09 The Third Mind - Journey In Satchidananda

10 The Blasters - Dark Night

11 Knitters - The Call Of The Wreckin Ball

12 The Blasters - I'm Shakin'

13 Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - Marie Marie

14 X - 4th Of July

15 The Blasters - So Long Baby Goodbye

16 Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men - Out In California

17 Los Lobos featuring Dave Alvin - Somewhere In Time

18 The Pleasure Barons - Take A Letter Maria

19 The Blasters - American Music

Deadbolt Picked

Since I have been looking at and listening to a variety of rockabilly, it only makes sense that I make this pick. Deadbolt says they are the scariest band ever. I don't know about that but they are fun. Horror pop, surf or surfabilly, psychobilly and their own brand of voodoobilly, I think they are cool. These are my favorites and even include a couple of tracks from one of their side projects I also like. It does not contain every fan favorite, but it does have many of them. It's my pick, so I included all my favorites. Ilike that the name plays off the lock illusion I attribute to their band name. That's why there are bones in the locking mechanism. Even though you technically can't pick a bolt.

Deadbolt Picked

01 Deadbolt - Blacktop Fever

02 Deadbolt - Voodoo Moonshine

03 Deadbolt - Hang Em High

04 Deadbolt - Hillbilly War

05 Deadbolt - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

06 Deadbolt - Orange Blossom Special

07 Deadbolt - One Day I Will Kill You

08 Deadbolt - Tiki Man

09 Deadbolt - Telephone The Dead

10 Deadbolt - Zulu Death Mask

11 Deadbolt - Down In The Lab

12 Deadbolt - James Bond Theme-You Only Live Twice

13 Deadbolt - Voodoobilly Man

14 Deadbolt - Scare Me

15 Deadbolt - El Paso

16 Deadbolt - Cockeye

17 Deadbolt - Truck Driving S.O.B.

18 Deadbolt - Billy's Dead

19 Deadbolt - Last Time I Saw Cole

20 Deadbolt - El Perversio

21 Strangers 1800 - Rawhide

22 Strangers 1800 - Hang 'Em High

Auto-Mo-Billy

This one started on the stupid idea of the name. I wanted to get Rockabilly songs on this pick that all had something to do with cars. Automobiles. I am not really a car guy. My wife. She knows cars. People all around me know cars. My next door neighbor was a champion racer. Friends that love cars. I've actually had some cool cars in my life, but mostly it wasn't on purpose. I always wanted a VW Bus, so I had one of those. I've had English sport cars. An MG-B GT (which was fun just because of all the letters), a Spitfire (wouldn't mind getting another one of those.) I once had a car that had parts of five different model names on it (and five different shades of red paint - I called it my Hot Tamale). My fastest car ever was not my 1964 Mustang which I ruined by making it fast and loud and modern, but an old VW Bug that was also converted to be fast. Porsche engine. It was fun, but I got too many tickets in it. This comp is missing some big name car songs, but I don't care.

Auto-Mo-Billy

01 Psycho Devilles - Psycho Cadillac

02 Bob Cass - Corvette Baby

03 The Crew - Red Chevrolet

04 Wally Hughes - Convertible Car

05 Jack Kitchen - Hot Rod Boogie

06 Harry Hutchins - Rockin' Rollin' Cadilac

07 Rocky Davis - Hot Rod Baby

08 Flyin' Cats - Hot Rod Gang

09 Billy Burnette - Hot Rod Hillbilly

10 Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps - Race With the Devil

11 Sonny Wallace - Black Cadillac

12 Bobby Brown & The Backup Boosters - She Knows Cars

13 Brian Setzer Orchestra - Drive Like Lightning (Crash Like Thunder)

14 Tom Tall - Hot Rod Is Her Name

15 Arkie Shibley & His Mountain Dew Boys - Hot Rod Race

16 Gene Simmons - Peroxide Blond And A Hopped Up Model Ford

17 Jimmy Carroll - Big Green Car

18 The Camtwisters - Hotrod Twist

19 Pat Davis - Spinner Hub Caps

20 Session '57 - Cool Cruisin' Car

21 Richie Deran - Girl And A Hot Rod

22 Bill Sherill - Cadillac Baby

23 Bobby Verne - Red Hot Car

24 Tommy Lam - Speed Limit

25 Joyce Green - Black Cadillac

26 Larry Dowd - Pink Cadillac

27 Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln

28 Bill Parsons - Hot Rod Volkswagen

29 Eddie Ringo - Full Racing Cam

30 Stray Cats - Look At That Cadillac

Surf-A-Billy 1

There is no real genre called Surf-A-Billy, but this comes close. Some surf, some rockabilly, some crossovers on this pick. Shorter songs, so 28 fit in this compilation. I was listening to the psychobilly of the Billy Goat Gruff mixtape of three days ago and realized how much overlap there was especially on the tracks I didn't use on that one. Similar to the old Surf Beat show I used to air years ago filled with Surf Punk - there is a lot of overlap between the genres. I love the cover with the surfing goat with a  pompadour and leather jacket. AI can be our friend. I hope I can do another one of these sometime in the future. I like it, it's fun.

Surf-A-Billy 1

01 The Sundowners - Snake Eyed Woman

02 Surf Cinema - Strait Up Chuck

03 Impala - Wild Night At The Bloody Bucket

04 The Ghastly Ones - Surfin' Spooks

05 Jon & The Nightriders - Thunder Over Rincon

06 Martin Cilia - Surfabilly

07 Th' Legendary Shack Shakers - Bottom Road

08 The Bomboras - War Of The Satellites

09 Reverend Horton Heat - Bullet

10 The Dead Cats - Secret Agent Man

11 Hillbilly Hellcats - Lazy Surfer

12 Nine Pound Hammer - Surfabilly

13 Los Straitjackets - Swampfire

14 The Belmont Playboys - Caravan

15 Vampire Beach Babes - Gothic Surf-A-Rama

16 The Phantom Surfers - The Cat Came Back

17 The Hillbilly Soul Surfers - Cha Wow Wow

18 The Surfonauts - Surfabilly from Outer Space

19 The Sentinals - Latin'ia

20 The Treble Spankers - Vahim

21 The Tarantulas - Black Diamond

22 Link Wray & The Raymen - Please Please Me

23 The Bradipos IV - Work Song

24 Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Tidal Wave

25 The Ripkatz - Surfabilly XXX

26 UnderGround 3000 - Surfabilly Slam

27 Justin Johnson - Surf-A-Billy

28 Southern Culture On The Skids - New Cooter Boogie

Billy Goat Gruff

It's been awhile since I posted a rockabilly pick. This one is more psychobilly meets gothabilly thank straightup rockabilly. It's got one older pick with Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Not that some of the others don't go back aways, just not that far. There is an "older" Cramps track, for instance. For some reason the rockabilly stuff isn't as visited as some of the other genres. Not sure why, there are some great tracks. All of these are more at a specific end of rockabilly. We'll see how it goes. Tell me what genres you'd like to hear most. Or do you just like to click on the covers, because they're cool? Or do you like to be surprised? By the way the cover today is put together from several sources, including children's book illustrator, Jeff Crosby, that I liked.

Billy Goat Gruff

01 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You

02 The Creepniks - Zombie Stomp

03 The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck

04 Vampire Beach Babes - Gothic Surf-A-Rama

05 The Meteors - Wreckin' Crew

06 Klingonz - Oompa Loompa

07 Guana Batz - King Rat

08 Batmobile - Kiss Me Now

09 Gun Club - Ghost On The Highway

10 Deadbolt - Billy's Dead

11 Bonkers - Pilsplaat

12 Ghoultown - Drink With the Living Dead

13 Frenzy - Cry Or Die

14 Nekromantix - Who Killed The Cheerleader

15 The Meantraitors - Heavy Boogie

16 Frantic Flintstones - Hellfire

17 Mad Sin - Communication Breakdown

18 Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freak Out

19 The Misfits - American Nightmare

20 Southern Culture On The Skids - Camel Walk

21 Tiger Army - Outlaw Heart

22 Horrorpops - Walk Like A Zombie

23 Demented Are Go - Pervy in the Park

24 Godless Wicked Creeps - We Are Rockers

25 Dypsomaniaxe - Dangerous Liaisons

26 The Koffin Kats - Chainsaw Massacre

Rockabilly Pick 1

I've liked Rockabilly since I first heard it. Old, New, Psychobilly, every Billy. It's all good. I like to dance to it, I like to listen to it, I just like it. So when Detlef made a compilation of cool Psychobilly (and posted on Butterboy's great site), it reminded me of this comp I had made. So I'm posting up this pick. Hopefully you will enjoy this introduction to not that new anymore Rockabilly. Let me know your favorite rockabilly songs in the comments below. BTW, the cover is pretty cool, I adapted a way bitchin' picture and used it as the beginning of the cover. 

Rockabilly Pick 1

01 Jason & the Scorchers - White Lies

02 Gun Club - Sex Beat

03 The Rockats - Go Cat Wild

04 kd Lang And The Reclines - Bopalena

05 Untamed Youth - Pabst Blue Ribbon

06 Polecats - Make A Circuit With Me

07 Robert Gordon with Link Wray - Red Hot

08 Stray Cats - Rumble in Brighton

09 The Jets - Love Makes The World Go Round

10 Batmobile - Kiss Me Now

11 Deke Dickerson - Hot Rodder's Lament

12 Brian Setzer - Ignition

13 Chris Isaak - Gone Ridin'

14 The Baseballs - Umbrella

15 Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Trio - Steady Baby

16 The Cramps - Human Fly

17 Neil Young & the Shocking Pinks - Wonderin'

18 Buck Naked  And The Bare Bottom Boys - Bend Over, Baby (And Let Me Drive)

19 Red Elvises - Boogie On The Beach

20 Kingtinued (Doug Church) - Crazy Little Thing Called Love

21 Blasters - I'm Shakin'

22 Hillbilly Hellcats - Hillbillies on Speed

23 Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freak Out

24 Three Bad Jacks - Hellbound Train

25 Marti Brom & Her Barnshakers - Eat My Words

26 The Honeydrippers - Rockin' At Midnight

27 Shakin' Stevens - Marie Marie