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First let me say how much I appreciate the job Lotta and Kitti have done in creating and maintaining the web-site.

It is a thrill for me to realize that so many fans still enjoy my songs. I especially enjoy the e-mails that are sent to the site from fans all over the world. I read them all, and try to answer those that had a specific question or request.

Lately some very interesting things have happened. The editor of "Now Dig This" magazine in Europe did a full feature story in the July issue, including my "old promotional" photo on the cover. In addition, a French magazine "Rock and Roll Review" has also done an interview.

I guess the biggest news, is that I have been asked to perform at the "Viva Las Vegas" Rock-A-Billy weekend, next April in Las Vegas. This will mark the first time in over 40 yrs that I have perfomed on stage, and I am a little nervous about it. There is another big Rock-A-Billy show in Green Bay, Wisconsin in May and it's not certain that I will make that show.

Again, many thanks to all the great fans who have taken the time to e-mail.

/Don Woody/ (written in 2006)

Don Woody is finally coming to Europe for one and only show.
This event, the 1st Rockabilly Bash, will take place in Cruise Inn (quite a small place) in Amsterdam, on the 7th of November 2009. Please, order tickets in advance!



After attending college Don Woody became a disc jockey at local nightclubs (in Springfield. Mo). Soon he met an agent who signed him up on the "Ozark Jubilee" to do the "warm-up" for the audience just before the show went on the air…

During the summer tour with Bill Wimberley's "Western Swing Band" in the mid-west Don Woody wrote some songs with his partner Paul Simmons and they made some demos.

As a result of hearing those demos Decca records signed Don to a contract. When he went to Nashville to record, Grady Martin and the "Slewfoot Five" were the band for his records. Don Woody recorded four songs at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio:

  • Barking up the wrong tree
  • Bird dog
  • Make like rock'n'roll
  • Morse code

    But only first two were released by Decca at the time and even though "Bird Dog" sold pretty well, Decca couldn't be persuaded to renew Woody's contract. Woody cut another session for Arco in 1958.

  • Not I
  • Red blooded American boy

    Unfortunately Don Woody did not sustain a career in music. He joined trading company Sears-Roebuck and managed a store in Dallas, Texas. Now retired and living in San Antonio.

    Read more

    To see some videos, photos and read feedback about Don Woody performance at Viva Las Vegas Festival press HERE

    To read the interviews (from 2006, 2003 and 1976) of Don Woody HERE



    • In 1976 the British band "Matchbox" covered "Make like rock'n'roll" on their first album "Riders in the Sky". So we can see and hear that Woody's songs are still being played by many well known as well as unknown and obscure rockabilly bands around the world. Here (in the "Cover List") you can find Don Woody cover songs, which are/were performed by such bands as :

  • Annita (NL)
  • Bigsby's Howlin Coyotes (NL)
  • Black Knights (SWE)
  • Flatfoot Shakers, the (AUS)
  • Goin' Ape (NOR)
  • Hot'n'Cold (GER)
  • Jive Bombers (USA)
  • Jumpin' Wheels, the (EST)
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  • Matchbox (UK)
  • Moot The Hoople
  • Phantom 409 (FIN)
  • Red Shots (NL)
  • Restless (UK)
  • Riot Rockers (UK)
  • Rock Island Line (UK)
  • Sugar Ray Ford (UK)

    • and others . . .



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