The years might roll by, but in Brian Setzer’s world, it is forever the 50s. There’s the quiff, still upstanding at 62. The rack of Gretsch antiquities, gleaming like the hubcaps of the hot-rods parked on his driveway. The lyrics, exploring a hinterland of diners, drive-ins, jukeboxes, and switchblades. The kingpin of modern rockabilly can even use the term ‘cat’, without irony, and pull it off. But the image of an artist preserved in aspic doesn’t quite fit. Because while the twang is still the thang on the Stray Cats frontman’s new solo album, Gotta Have The Rumble, Setzer’s arrangements and voicings also give the ’billy a decisive nudge onwards. “When I take a whole different genre and put it into my rockabilly world,” he tell us, “that’s what lights me up the most.”
What’s the significance of that album title, Gotta Have The Rumble?
“Of course, it’s a reference to my motorcycles, which give me my peace and quiet, believe it or not. That’s my meditation – I just hop on and ride. But then it became about the tinnitus I had going on and the bigger amps I had to use. So I thought, ‘Well, Gotta Have The Rumble, that refers to both things.’”
How bad was the tinnitus?
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