I've only had my Gretsch 5129 for a few week now and I'm still trying to learn the art of playing rockabilly after years of playing rock. I've just about learned stuff like "Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie", "Double talking baby" (Stray Cats) and "Race with the devil" by Gene Vincent so I'm looking for something else to learn. What do you all suggest for me and are the tabs available online? One thing though, please be gentle with me :D

Check out Damian bacci on you tube. If you like his lessons, he has a dvd as well.

I keep meaning to learn Race With The Devil, I love that song, and if i recall right there's some nice picking by Cliff Gallup. I have a version by Jeff Beck on the Crazy Legs album.

I'd recommend some Carl Perkins or Scotty Moore.

Mr Sandman as done by Chet Atkins. Still working on this one personally even though I know I'll never be able to perfectly copy the master. It's not really a rockabilly song but it's really helped me in learning how to put together bass notes with chords with lead parts tied to the proper chords. I came from more of the Clapton style of lead playing where you just sorta pick your scale and go for it with a lot more freedom from the rhythm section. Playing that way is fun but rockabilly leads really stick to the chord progression of the song a lot more and this one song really helped me practice that.

Mortis,
I'll leave tab site suggestions to someone else, I don't use tabs as much as trying to figure things out by ear. Here are some song and player suggestions:
Reverend Horton Heat "Bathwater Blues"

Scotty Moore with Elvis "Just Because"

James Burton with Ricky Nelson "I Believe What You Say"

Johnny Burnette with the Rock and Roll Trio "Train Kept A' Rolling"

Eddie Cochran "Twenty Flight Rock"

Get Brian Setzer's Rockabilly Riot CD and use it as a list of great songs to learn, either by trying to find the original versions or figuring out what Brian Setzer plays.

Obviously there are tons more choices, these are just what came up off the top of my head.

Try making a set list of around fifteen songs that you think would have enough variety to keep an audience interested for a set, include ballads and barn burners and medium tempo grooves all from rockabilly recordings. Then learn it as if you had a gig deadline to plan it for and target playing the set list through with the recordings in the order you planned it at one sitting. This makes the learning have a focus and you get to see the style as a broader spectrum than one song at a time which can feel more random.

Not sure if this goes here & on iPhone so don't get the detail of the full site, but here goes... Loving the resurgence of Rockabilly to mainstream consciousness beside Americana. Love rockabilly that looks forwards as well as the classics. Hence, does anyone have Imelda May's "Johnny Got A Boom Boom" or Eileen Jewel's "Queen of the Minor Key" please?

Plus, any suggestions of up-and-coming Rockabilly/Americana/Alt Country artists breaking stateside are welcome. We're starved of the twang in UK at the moment. Sorry to be long winded and thanks.

Not sure if this goes here & on iPhone so don't get the detail of the full site, but here goes... Loving the resurgence of Rockabilly to mainstream consciousness beside Americana. Love rockabilly that looks forwards as well as the classics. Hence, does anyone have Imelda May's "Johnny Got A Boom Boom" or Eileen Jewel's "Queen of the Minor Key" please?

Plus, any suggestions of up-and-coming Rockabilly/Americana/Alt Country artists breaking stateside are welcome. We're starved of the twang in UK at the moment. Sorry to be long winded and thanks.

Eyup from Yorkshire. I've got the Guitar Pro app installed on my iPhone and TuxGuitar on my laptop. I've downloaded a few tabs onto my phone (took me some time to figure it out!) which I'm trying to learn. Here is the link to the Imelda May stuff on ultimate guitar.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?value=imelda+may&search_type=title

I'm looking for some modern stuff after re-discovering my love of rockabilly a few year back. My current favourite is the Reverend Horton Heat.

Plus, any suggestions of up-and-coming Rockabilly/Americana/Alt Country artists breaking stateside are welcome. We're starved of the twang in UK at the moment. Sorry to be long winded and thanks.

I feel we are going through the same thing here. I am going backwards and refilling my catalog with the classics. I would for sure get a hold of some DiMaggio Bros., High Noon, Danny Gatton, and some Ray Campi. For serious twang Wayne Hancock, Deke Dickerson, and Junior Brown.