I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.