Craig Morrison is a musicologist and bandleader of Craig Morrison & the Momentz. He teaches courses at the McGill Centre for Continuing Education in Montreal, and is a radio columnist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

• The name game -- Ingredients -- Origins and predecessors -- The rise and fall rockabilly in the 1950s -- Elvis Presley -- Memphis -- Country singers and Nashville rockabilly -- Rockabilly women -- Louisiana -- Texas -- California The revival -- Veterans -- Revivalists.

"What rockabilly really needs is more Craig Morrisons."--Terry Gordon, Journal of Country Music "It's the first thing I would suggest to anyone who wanted to know what rockabilliy music was all about. . . . A reasonable, well-balanced, and nondogmatic account of a musical genre that has become a cult to many of its followers. Morrison's book should make rockabilly more accessible to those with broad interests in grassroots American music."--David Evans, Memphis State University "The definitive study of rockabilly music. . . . A well-researched, insightful, and caring tribute to an oft-overlooked musical genre that was vital to the evolution of popular music and culture in the Fifties."--Shane K. Bernard, Louisiana History