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rockabilly
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music. It dates back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South. As a genre it blends the sound of Western musical styles such as country with that of rhythm and blu ...
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independent record label. It was formed in 1979 by Roy Williams, a DJ on the UK rock'n'roll scene.
Nervous Records is credited by many as the leading record label behind the emergence of the British
neo-rockabilly and
psychobilly scene in the early 1980s
and released many of the earliest records by key British artists of the genre including
The Polecats
The Polecats are an English rockabilly band formed at the end of the 1970s.
Career
The band formed in 1977 in north London. The original line-up was Tim Worman (a.k.a. Tim Polecat, vocalist), Martin "Boz" Boorer (guitarist and vocalist), Phi ...
, The Sharks, Frenzy and
Restless - as well as leading acts from other European countries including
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Although not a musician himself, Williams produced many of the bands whose music he released. Williams introduced Producer/Engineer Paul “Doc” Stewart to psychobilly. Stewart was already well versed in rock, indie and punk and he took the music in a more modern direction, often co-producing with Williams as documented in the Rockabilly Chronicle.
See also
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List of record labels
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References
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Record labels established in 1979
British independent record labels
IFPI members
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