Brian Setzer

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#guys #junior #know #maybe #out

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#band #because #big #big band #bills

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#biggest challenge #challenge #get #i #know

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#never #really #songwriting #stepped

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#creating #keep #music #out #something

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#dying #emerging #national #new #off

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#also #crazy #different #era #influences

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#cats #classics #else #first #least