How to Use rockabilly in a Sentence

rockabilly

noun

• Bands range from classic rock and rockabilly to country and pop.
  — Jen Banowetz, Aurora Beacon-News, 19 May 2017
• At the reception, the checkerboard dance floor was packed all night, thanks to a Nashville rockabilly band, and guests dined on fried chicken.
  — Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2011
• Over the years, Union Pool has sometimes been identified as a punk bar, sometimes as a rockabilly bar.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 31 Jan. 2018
• This British rockabilly guy came out of nowhere with a song about people mixing up his (very simple) name, and people loved it.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2018
• From the rockabilly revival of the ’70s to the retro disco fad of the ’90s to whatever the Trump era excavates, this eccentric outfitter has dressed it.
  — Ilise S. Carter, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• But girls had always focussed on Micah, thanks to his good-looking rockabilly style, which went with his pompadour and his moves.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• Its sound drew on rockabilly, country-western and ’50s rock, albeit with more bite.
  — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 6 May 2017
• Austin guitarist and singer splits the difference between rockabilly and punk.
  — Shawna Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 17 June 2021
• Volbeat brought a rockabilly style to the metal scene and the night as their soaring choruses and catchy riffs were a good way to sit back and appreciate all that the genre really provides.
  — Houston Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2019
• Instead there was sake, poured by a young man with an imperious rockabilly pompadour.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• The brave men and woman of Maze didn’t sacrifice their lives for Frankie Beverly’s right to wear a white painter’s cap only to have his legacy marred by rockabilly bands who want to remix our music for a rodeo after-party.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 16 Apr. 2018
• His flashy guitar style also got him work with a white rockabilly singer, Eddy Bell, who outfitted Mr. Clearwater with a leopard print for his guitar to match his tiger print jacket.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• An early rockabilly and rock and roll innovator, Cochran was one of the first artists to experiment with multitrack recording and special effects on his songs.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
• Domino’s piano sits out for this almost-rockabilly song; instead, his voice glides above a brisk rhythm guitar, gloating over the prospect of career success as romantic revenge.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• The rockabilly musician has long been rumored to be the illegitimate child of music legend Jerry Lee Lewis.
  — Fox News, 26 Mar. 2018
• Ronnie Hawkins, the rowdy rockabilly singer who was instrumental in the formation of the pioneering Americana group the Band, died on Sunday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2022
• At Marchesa, lead hairstylist Renato Campora created a modern rockabilly style by pulling the hair into a high ponytail on the top of the crown, braiding it, and twisting it into a bun.
  — Jessica Prince Erlich, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Sep. 2010
• And the dynamic crowd is one of the best surprises here—a multigenerational mix of hipsters, ranchers, rockabillies, and bikers convene nightly.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
• The film will obviously appeal to Tramps fans as well as those who've never heard of the band but are interested in punk history, especially the 1990s Orange County punk-ska-rockabilly era.
  — Kathleen Craughwell, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• In 1978, Ripsaw, a Pennsylvania record label, approached Mr. Hancock about recording in the rockabilly style.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2018
• Opening for the rockabilly guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and former Stray Cats frontman are the Texas Gentlemen.
  — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 2 Nov. 2017

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024