What makes The Stillmen different from other Rockabilly Bands?
They avoid the standard use of a rhythm guitar with a lead guitar. On many songs the guitars play 3rds, octaves, ascending and descending melodies together before breaking into individual parts. This sound is all their own. They leave the Hillbilly and Psycho-Billy to other bands so that they can play pure 50’s style Rockabilly. What are the songs like? “Cute little baby” gives a driving up-tempo start to the record. It has some cool double guitar work in the leads to listen for. “How I Wish” is an upbeat ditty of a love affair gone wrong with a pounding upright bass break in the middle. “Drinking Black Coffee” is a high-speed finger picking bopper in which the protagonist sits ‘drinking black coffee feeling blue’ over a woman that strayed from her happy home. “Suisun city” has more twin guitar work and it tells a story of lost love in this California delta town. Why record on all pre 1956 Tube recording equipment? Many people are big fans of the Mono recording sounds on labels like Su
