There are times when the Southwestern twang at the heart of the Joeys’ new release, “Sonoran Dreams,” invites you to imagine an aspiring rockabilly trio of the 1950s. Other highlights sound like they ...

He and his sister became child stars in the 1950s by making exuberantly unhinged music. “I had so much energy,” he said, “they didn’t know what to do with me.” By Bill Friskics-Warren Larry Collins, ...

Billy Adams, a Rockabilly Hall of Famer who wrote and recorded the mid-1950s rockabilly staple “Rock, Pretty Mama,” died March 30 in Westmoreland, Tenn. He was 79. Clif Doyal, Mr. Adams’s publicist ...

The year 1955 was an important year for rock 'n' roll, and musicians who would become the most legendary names in the genre ...

During a 1968 interview with Rolling Stone, Townshend discussed the sort of rock songs he enjoyed. “The rock ‘n’ roll songs I like, of course, are songs like ‘Summertime Blues,’ man that’s beautiful,” ...