Rockabilly Rebel

Its is so darn sunny outside even a pessimist like me cannot remain in bad mood forever. 

It was at boarding school in the UK when I first heard the Matchbox hit that  cemented my taste in music. 

I would say that Rockabilly is still the centre of my musical universe but like demented planets spinning around Sun Records I also listen to sixties garage seventies punk, forties gospel, fifties country and western, surf and French "yé-yé" girls, throw in some soul and early blues. (the less said about my guilty pleasure, Abba addiction the better).

Back to the song, Rockabilly rebel, I was listening to a live version by a new young Norwegian group called Bullet Proof, and the lyrics stuck me as somewhat prophetic in my case…..

My Mama don’t like it, the way I comb my hair,
Papa thinks I’m crazy, in the clothes I wear…

But I’m what I am and I’m gonna keep a rockin’ that way

The kids in the schoolhouse they couldn’t wait too long,
When the school is over, they put their cat clothes on,

Be a real cool cat, be a rockabilly rebel like me

Well it struck me as funny, heck not all my posts can be literary gold. Here is Bullet Proof with my theme song and their own rocking, Lets Swing!

Hugs,

April