Rock Title Top Ten: Rock This Town (#8)

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Howdy from Route 66, Joliet, Illinois style! I’ll be slowly heading for home now, since I have an eye appointment on Thursday. That means I can follow all the brown informational signs I want! Here’s a great song with an ode to rock and roll in the title that sounds good on Route 66…or anywhere! #8: Rock This Town - Stray Cats I got to see these guys live, and they did “rock this town.” That was a fun show. And, at the time (mid-80s), that was the largest collection of tattoos I’d ever seen in one place. (These days, one basketball player can beat the three of them. ) A fun song celebrating the triumph of rock and roll over disco. (Side note: there was some pretty good music in 1974, and I don’t remember anyone looking that “square” then! ) Or just the fun of rock and roll in general. And I always appreciated that producer Dave Edmunds left the “real” feel of rockabilly in this by not re-doing the guitar flub. Rock This Town Written by Brian Setzer Recorded by the Stray Cats From Built for Speed, 1982 Pick you up at ten: