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Hi everyone, it's been a while since I updated my comments on the website and thought I would take this opportunity to tell you I am going to Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend #15 on April 4th-8th 2012.

This is the venue where I did my first "comeback" show in 2007, I returned to that stage in 2009 and am very happy to be able to go back next year. It's a great Rockabilly weekend and I love meeting with the fans.

Since that last time in 2009, I have been privileged to do some other really fun shows. The first "Rockabilly Bash" in Amsterdam produced by Lotta and Kitty, who do such a great job managing this website and then In May of 2010 was invited to the Hemsby Rock and Roll weekend #44. Once again, I was very impressed with the whole weekend in Hemsby. Great artists and great fans,I was honored to be a part of it.

I continue to be amazed at how receptive the fans are to my music after all these years, and it is a great thrill for me to be on stage and have everyone singing along..

Don

July 2011

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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