![]() ![]() ![]() This version, by Johnny Bond was a hit in 1960, but the song (and car songs in general) dates back a lot further than that. ![]() In a sort of giddy deadpan manner, the song relates a race between two souped-up hot rods interspersed with hot guitar licks. The group then recorded Astronaut Girl and released it in March of 2001 on Hep Cat Records.I think that I ordered Shut Downs and Hill Climbs on the strength of “ Hot Rod Lincoln ” that a school chum had told me about. In 1999, Joey Galvan joined the group to replace Dave Bernson. This move gained Hot Rod Lincoln a new segment of fans, confirmed their staying power, and proved that the changes in popular trend would not sway their devotion to the classic rockabilly sound. For the She Devil Records' release of 1997's Hot Rod Girl, Hot Rod Lincoln served as the backing band to vocalist Josie Kreuzer. Even if the late '90s saw a significant turn for the worse in regard to the popularity of their genre, Hot Rod Lincoln outlasted the flash-in-the-pan rockabilly revivalists. The record was produced by Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats and with Blue Café, their exploration of their earlier roots were even more thorough than before, giving nods to early surf and rock & roll legends such as Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, and Bill Haley & the Comets. He was undoubtedly a large influence on the band and one of the key players in the national resurgence of the rockabilly and swing mania of the early and mid-'90s. Their third release, Blue Café, was independently released in October of 1997, and included a title-track that was written for the band by Setzer. The Boulevard solidified the trio's sound, which was firmly planted in the Southern California tradition of melding rockabilly and psychobilly with a touch of surf, wrapped in the highly stylized leopard-print sheik of other rockabilly revivalists like Brian Setzer's Stray Cats and Southern Culture on the Skids. Hot Rod Lincoln received warm reviews and caught the attention of Dionysis Records, who released their second full-length, The Boulevard, in 1996. The band first self-released their eponymous debut in 1994, near the peak of the short-lived swing revival. Forming in San Diego in 1993, the group gained a modicum of regional and national notoriety after they won Best Roots/Rockabilly/Swing Band at the 1997 San Diego Music Awards. ![]() d'Artenay (vocals and upright bass), and Dave Bernson (vocals and drums), the heart of Hot Rod Lincoln's sound lies in the tradition of '50s rockabilly and early rock & roll. Originally made up of Buzz Campbell (vocals and guitars), Johnny G. ![]()
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