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
  • Instead there was sake, poured by a young man with an imperious rockabilly pompadour.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 18 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Travel through his rockabilly, military, movie and Las Vegas concert years.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives opened the show with a blend of rockabilly, honky-tonk and bluegrass.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The rockabilly musician has long been rumored to be the illegitimate child of music legend Jerry Lee Lewis.
    — Fox News, 26 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Opening for the rockabilly guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and former Stray Cats frontman are the Texas Gentlemen.
    — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 2 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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