Lee Rocker

Dave Edmunds: Swan Songs: The Singles 1976-1981

by Doug Collette
October 5, 2024

Extended as is Joe Marchese's essay in the twelve-page booklet enclosed with Swan Songs, it is nonetheless as breezy and free-flowing as the content spread across the two compact discs. Consisting of cuts originally issued 45-rpm singles on the label imprimatur of Led Zeppelin (referenced in the main title of the package), the cumulative impact of these selections reaffirms the effect of the somewhat daunting expanse of prose, that is, clearly making the case for Edmunds as a decidedly rootsy ...

Lee Rocker: Road Tested, American Made

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 10, 2006

If there's a club or a bar or a theatre that has a stage with electricity and amplification, no matter how obscure or winding the road it's on, it's almost a sure bet that Lee Rocker and his upright bass have played a gig there.

Rocker's stock in trade has been the American roots music rockabilly pretty much since the day he first picked up that upright as a teenager on Long Island, NY. He hooked up with ...

Lee Rocker Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2006

Rockabilly roots-rocker Lee Rocker may have made his name as the upright bassist with The Stray Cats, but he's been anything but silent since the million-selling group dissolved. With eight albums under his own name, he's worked with legends including Carl Perkins and Dave Edmunds.

Senior Editor Chris Slawecki caught up with Rocker recently to talk about the rich legacy of Rockabilly, and Rocker's place in that history. Read Lee Rocker: Road Tested, American Made, up this morning at AAJ. ...
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