Stray Cats
By Jonny Whiteside
Where the late 1970’s punk rock revolution leveled an uneven playing field and blazed new trails for a half dozen developmental off-shoots, punk’s short reign and ignominious 1980 implosion left a void that the neo-rockabilly band Stray Cats explosively filled. The trio’s meteoric rise to stardom was as extraordinarily unusual--and culturally inevitable--as the original rockabilly movement ignited almost twenty five years earlier by Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. By not merely resurrecting but aggressively expanding the genre’s potent mix of Rhythm & Blues and Southern hillbilly, the Stray Cats were trading in elemental... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Rock & Roll, Rockabilly
- City Of Origin:
- Massapequa, ,New York United States
- Formed Date:
- 1979
