Between the soft-core indie folkies and the glossy bullshit of the Nashville industrial complex, it can feel like roots music is being drained of its soul in the race to the lowest common denominator.

Rockabilly cats Deke Dickerson and Kevin (Jittery Jack) Patey used to be the leaders of the bands Untamed Youth and Raging Teens. They’re not quite youth anymore, and well out of their teens. But ...

Deke Dickerson is on a mission to make rockabilly dangerous and fun again. “I'm not doing a recreation or a retro thing,” says the man with the cowboy hat and the twin-necked electric guitar. “I'm ...

TULSA, Okla. — Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #577 (VFW #577) hosted a night of rockabilly music featuring Deke Dickerson & The Whippersnappers. They said this is one of several events the post puts on ...

Deke Dickerson is a West Coast musician, singer, and author specializing in vintage roots music, including country, rockabilly, blues, and garage rock. He was named Ameripolitan Musician of the Year.

Jon Spencer is back with a new single, a motivational call-to-action protest number titled “Come On!” which he made with The Bobby Lees’ Kendall Wind and Spider Bowman, and Deke Dickerson. “We’re ...

It takes a special kind of roots performer to play a twin-necked guitar, but Deke Dickerson — like his forebear Joe Maphis — gets away with it. When this retro-loving former member of Untamed Youth ...

The Bay Area-based band Red Meat mixes country, western swing, gospel-style harmonies and warmly irreverent fun into its own infectious blend of honky-tonk twang. Guitarist and singer Deke Dickerson ...

Deke Dickerson kept wondering why nobody had written a comprehensive biography of Merle Travis. Dickerson is a gifted musician, guitar expert, and music historian. Merle Travis was an influential ...

It's not actually getting paid. I'm not really cryin' the blues, I'm doing OK, and the other things are definitely paying the bills, but I was just kinda shocked at how little those Internet ...

One of the stories we’d hoped to bring you this week was a preview of this year’s installment of the Nashville Boogie, a long-running rockabilly-centric festival put on by Muddy Roots organizer and ...

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