The Stray Cats frontman who kept vintage guitar sounds alive on his own terms.
For the rockabilly side, check out 'Stack My Money.' For the swing orchestra vibe, 'Gloria' gives you a good sense of what he was up to later on.
When rockabilly had pretty much disappeared from radio, Setzer brought it back with the Stray Cats' 'Runaway Boys.' He didn't stop there, he formed a 19-piece swing band when nobody else was doing that, and kept updating classics like '49 Mercury Blues' with his own guitar style. He's one of those players who just kept doing what he loved, regardless of what was trending.
He started the Stray Cats in the early '80s, and their debut album helped bring rockabilly back into the mainstream. After the band split in 1993, he worked on solo material and led the Brian Setzer Orchestra, recording several albums with that big swing sound.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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