Ronnie Hawkins - The Ballad Of Caryl Chessman (Let Him Live, Let Him Live, Let Him Live) Hoyle Miller - Twelve Years On Death Row Country Johnny Mathis - Caryl Chessman In July 1948, Caryl Chessman, also known as "The Red Light Bandit," was sentenced to die in the California gas chamber after being convicted on 17 charges of robbery, kidnapping [...]
The Tale Of Floyd Collins come to us from Arkansas native Ronnie Hawkins, who found success and fame after following Conway Twitty's advice and relocating to Canada. In 1960, Hawkins, a cousin of rockabilly pioneer Dale Hawkins, released this long-after-the fact topical song about the 1925 death of cave explorer Floyd Collins who became trapped 55 feet underground in what is now part of Mammoth Cave National Park just outside of Cave City, Kentucky. Collins got stuck while exploring and though rescue teams worked around the clock to try to [...]
We couldn't let Thanksgiving pass around these parts without our annual fluffage of the greatest rock movie of all-time - The Last Waltz . Exactly 35 years ago, roughly 5,000 lucky fans were treated to a full Thanksgiving dinner, followed by a star-studded "farewell concert" from The Band, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, the site of their very first public performance. With each viewing I seem to come away with a new favorite performance from the flick and after last night's annual viewing it's when their former boss Ronnie Hawkins took to the stage [...]
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Ernest Tubb is gonna call up the gypsy woman. He's also sending out a worldwide hoodoo. Those are Chuck Berry's words of course, and it's a gift to us to hear Tubb sing them on his 1955 version of "Thirty Days" released two months after Chuck put out his second single for Chess. They both raced up the R&B and Country charts respectively, and established Chuck Berry as a first rate crossover artist/songwriter. Berry's guitar solo is chunky and rhythmic, soaring over and leading the rhythm section. Tubb calls out to his soloists: Billy Byrd, "Half-Moon" Bradley, and [...]
Paul Butterfield and Garth Hudson guest on this rockabilly take on a Little Walter classic from the man who put The Band together to begin with.

Rumors that iconic Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died raced across Twitter earlier today, and soon found their way onto several newspaper websites. However, the stories -- which quoted Lightfoot's longtime friend and fellow music legend Ronnie Hawkins saying, "He died last night, I've had a couple of phone calls already" -- were quickly taken down once word emerged that this was an Internet "prank." Lightfoot's publicist B ernie Fielder assured the Globe&Mail that the 71-year-old singer was alive and well, and claimed that the death reports were based on "a [...]
Featuring Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, the late Jeff Healey, Levon Helm, Jerry Lee Lewis and who knows who else...
Ronnie Hawkins is a rock and roll treasure who is more than deserving of a third coming.
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