MALCOLM YELVINGTON

September 14, 1918 - February 21, 2001

Malcolm Yelvington was born in Tipton County in West Tennessee on September 14, 1918. He grew up in the county seat, Covington, and remained there until moving to Memphis as a young man. Malcolm's first professional performance was as a solo act at the Gem Theatre in Covington in 1943. He sang and accompanied himself on guitar. Later, Malcolm met keyboard player and composer Reece Fleming and steel guitar player Red Wynn and formed a group, The Tennesseans, which played dances and honky tonks around West Tennessee. Eventually bassist Jake Riales and lead guitarist Gordon Mashburn joined the group and they changed the name of the band to Malcolm Yelvington and The Star Rhythm Boys.

In 1954, Malcolm and The Star Rhythm Boys went into Sam Phillips' Memphis studio and recorded "Drinkin' Wine Spodeeodee," a cover of a Sticks Mcgee song. Sticks was the brother of blues great Brownie Mcgee. The song was released on Phillips' Sun record label as Sun single 211. The song released just before "Drinkin' Wine Spodeeodee" was Sun single 210, "Good Rockin' Tonight," by a young man named Elvis Presley.

Malcolm's version of "Drinkin' Wine Spodeeodee" became a minor hit. Sun later released the single "Rockin' With My Baby" written by Malcolm Yelvington. On the flip side was "It's Me Baby" written by The Star Rhythm Boy's keyboard player Reece Fleming. With Malcolm on vocals and rhythm guitar both sides became regional hits. Still under contract to Sam Phillips at Sun, but with all the studio time going to Elvis, Malcolm recorded a hit single "Yakety-Yak" for the Meteor label under the pseudonym of Mack Sales and the Esquire Trio.

Malcolm Yelvington spent about thirty years out of the music business, only continuing with his musical career after retiring. In 1988, Malcolm toured England and Holland playing to sold out houses every time he performed. One of his shows in Holland was releasesed as a live album on a Dutch record label. American artists, Malcolm Yelvington's biggest musical following is Like many seminal in Europe where it seems many American musical treasures are honored and revered while being virtually ignored in their own country.

CHUCK BERRY EN ESTEPONA

Música

El padre del rock, Chuck Berry, ´rolleará´ en julio en Estepona

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El padre del rock and roll, fresco aún pese a sus ocho décadas de vida.

El mítico compositor y guitarrista encabezará, junto al legendario John Mayall, el primer Festival Highway Classic Rock, una imprescindible cita con los titanes de la guitarra. J. ZOTANO. MÁLAGA El próximo 26 de julio, los orígenes del rock resonarán en la Plaza de Toros esteponera (21.30 horas) gracias a las míticas composiciones del guitarrista de St. Louis, entre las que destacan himnos inmarchitables como ´Johnny B. Goode´, ´Maybellene´, ´Roll Over Beethoven´, ´Almost Grown´ y ´Carol´.
A sus 82 años, el artista norteamericano continúa ofreciendo los inconfundibles ´riffs´ de guitarra que enamoraron a toda una generación y que inspiró a numerosas formaciones posteriores, entre ellas The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, así como a la gran mayoría de músicos que protagonizaron la Invasión Británica (Eric Clapton y John Mayall incluidos). John Lennon sostuvo en vida que "si alguien quisiera rebautizar el rock and roll con otro nombre, debería llamarlo Chuck Berry", otorgándole a su aportación musical el lugar que le corresponde en la historia del género.

´Piernas locas´. Nacido en St. Louis en 1926, el impulso de Chuck Berry al germen del rock fue fundamental, aunque el color de su piel condicionó su reconocimiento en la Norteamérica de los años cincuenta. Mientras que ´piernas locas´ (apodo que adquirió por sus movimientos en el escenario) sentaba las bases del sonido que revolucionaría a la juventud de aquella época, Elvis acaparaba toda la atención de los medios, reticentes a convertir en estrella mediática a un afroamericano.
De este modo, la popularidad de Presley, que sólo era intérprete de composiciones ajenas, eclipsó el talento de Berry, que además de ser un virtuoso guitarrista, componía y escribía las letras de sus canciones, convirtiéndose en el verdadero ideólogo del rock y en el artista que marcó sus pautas. En un tiempo en el que el racismo era una poderosa realidad en los Estados Unidos, el guapo y pálido Elvis fue coronado como ´El Rey del Rock´ de un movimiento del que sólo era la imagen deseada por el ´establishment´, relegando a Berry, más cercano a la vigorosa realidad adolescente de aquella época, a un desmerecido segundo plano.

Entradas. Chuck Berry, su inseparable gorra de marinero, su brillante Gibson 335 y su archifamoso ´Duck walk´ (baile del pato) visitarán la Costa del Sol para rememorar una época irrepetible y fundamental en la historia de la música. Las entradas para el Festival Highway Classic Rock, en el que, como informó hace semanas La Opinión de Málaga, también actuará el legendario John Mayall, ya pueden adquirirse a través de la web www.ticktackticket.com al precio de 40 euros.

BOB LUMAN

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Bob Luman

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In 1957, James was working on the Louisiana Hayride, a very well known radio show at the time. There he met Bob Luman.
The band was called 'The Shadows' and consisted of James Burton on lead guitar, James Kirkland on bass and Butch White on drums.
Together with Luman, they made a movie in Hollywood, Carnival Rock.
It was in Hollywood where Ricky Nelson first heard them rehearse and decided to hire them for his own band.

The following records were recorded by Luman with The Shadows:

Blue Days, Black Nights - Imperial (1956)
Bring Along Your Lovin' - Imperial (1956)
All Night Long / Red Cadillac and a Red Moustache - Imperial 8311 (1957)
Wild-Eyed Woman / Amarillo Blues - Imperial (1957)
Red Hot / Whenever You're Ready - Imperial 8313 (1957)
Your Love / Make Up Your Mind Baby - Imperial 8315 (1957)
No Use in Lyin' - Imperial (1957)
That's All Right With Me - Imperial (1957)
Hello Baby - Imperial (1957)
This is the Night - (Imperial (1957)
Maybelline - Epic 10581
Mystery Train - (1974)

The following records were recorded by The Shadows:
Jumping with the Shadows
Shadow Rock
The Creep

DEFINITION OF ROCKABILLY

The word "rockabilly", which first appeared in a Billboard review for Ruckus Tyler's "Rock Town Rock" in the summer of 1956, derives from the combination of "rock & roll" and "hillbilly". Before 1956 it was referred to as a variation on either "country/hillbilly" or "blues", for example "hillbilly bop", "country rhythm & blues" and so on. Charlie Feathers described "rockabilly" as "blues with a bluegrass beat". Carl Perkins defined it as a hopped-up version of blues. It is interesting, however, that the term "rockabilly" was rarely used back in the 1950s. Sam Phillips, the man behind the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and performers like Johnny Carroll and Malcolm Yelvington, by far preferred the word "rock & roll", popularized by deejay-promoter Alan Freed.

Rockabilly is basically a particular category of rock & roll with both country & western and rhythm & blues influences. The song structure generally features a standard 12-bar blues progression, supported by a strong and steady switchblade beat. A lot of rockabilly songs include stop-time rhythm patterns, for example in "Blue Suede Shoes" ("Well it's one for the money-STOP-two for the show-STOP").

As many rockabilly bands consist only of guitar, bass and drums, they often have the overall sound enhanced by using echo on the guitar and the vocals. The electric guitar solos are either vibrant, frantic and seemingly spontaneous or rather subdued and laidback, especially when played in fingerpicking style.

The double bass, also known as bull fiddle, stand-up bass or doghouse bass, is often played in "slapping" style. This percussive right-hand technique, which also occurs in bluegrass and western swing, is obtained by letting the strings rattle against the instrument's fingerboard.

Numerous rockabilly singers, like Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, learned to sing in church, where the preachers' uncommonly expressive and dramatic vocal acrobatics made a deep impression. The obviously emotional singing style, including hiccups, cries, howls, moans and exhilarating interjections ("let's go cats!", "let's rock!" …), adds an extra exciting flavour to the rockabilly idiom.

Rockabilly is mainly, but not exclusively, a white style. The best-known examples of rockabilly songs performed by black artists are "Down On The Farm" by Big Al Downing and "Hip Shakin' Baby" by Roy Brown.

The generally simplistic lyrics deal with freedom and fun (especially pretty girls, sharp clothes, razzles & rumbles and fast cars), which clearly reflects a passionate interest and involvement in the rebellious youth culture of the 1950s.

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