Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Guitar Player

    My Career in Five Songs

    Dec 15, 2020 6 minutes
    BY MARK McSTEA

    FOR MORE THAN 40 years, Brian Setzer has been the torchbearer for all things rockabilly since finding success with Stray Cats in the U.K. The Long Island trio relocated to England after hearing about the booming U.K. rock and roll scene there, thinking they might capitalize on it with their own incendiary take on the genre. Sure enough, within months of arriving in England, they had secured a record deal and started a run of hit singles that carried them through two albums before they finally broke big in America with the help of MTV. The video channel was a godsend for any band with the visuals to back up their music. Little wonder that Stray Cats cleaned up, given their unique punk-rockabilly image and the strength of their songs.

    Since then, they’ve split and reformed a number of times. They regrouped in 2019 to make , an album of all-new original songs, and launched a world tour to celebrate, which captures highlights from that tour.

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Guitar Player

    Guitar Player2 min read
    Italian Dressing
    OF THE MANY weird guitars from the 1960s, the Italians are my favorites. EKO, Vox, Crucianelli, Wandre and Gemeli… it’s hard to keep up. The Welson company, like its Italian neighbor EKO, produced guitars under many names and even made a few models f
    Guitar Player6 min read
    Klos Up
    THE CARBON-FIBER REVOLUTION may not be televised, but it’s all over the internet and here in the pages of GP. The young Klosowiak brothers bring a unique perspective, focused on intelligent builds using modern materials in traditional forms. They mak
    Guitar Player4 min read
    The Knockoff That Became a Knockout
    AMONG THE MANY guitars that took their design cues from a handful of seminal designs, the Ibanez Artist Model 2617 stood out as distinctly different, even enticingly exotic. And yet it looked undeniably classic. The golden age of American electric-gu

    Related Books & Audiobooks