Song Lyric Sunday: Name That Tune – ‘Blue Suede Shoes’

This week, Jim is asking us to feature a song with an arresting opening line: one so familiar that you can ‘name that tune’ immediately. Perhaps it’s just my age, but most of the possibilities that sprang most immediately to mind were rock and roll classics. I see that Jim himself has chosen ‘Tutti-frutti’, but…

Song Lyric Sunday: Rockabilly – ‘Blue Suede Shoes’

This week it’s rockabilly for Song Lyric Sunday, so it’s time to take one step back from the beginnings of what’s generally thought of as rock ‘n’ roll, to an earlier, (even) more innocent time. With the benefit of hindsight, you can see in what direction music was heading back in the mid-1950s, and this…