Ronnie Dawson

Blond bomber strikes again (Mar 1999)

t's a sad fact of life that the country and rockabilly stars of the 1950s aren't exactly spring chickens anymore. Carl Perkins, "Groovey" Joe Poovey and Jackie Lee Cochran all passed away in the past year or so. All the more reason to enjoy the genre's younger performers, such as the Collins Kids and Ronnie Dawson, teenagers during rockabilly's golden era of the late '50's and a good 5 or 10 years younger than their peers. Though now in their 50's, they're still capable of whipping an audience into a lather and putting out new music, like Dawson's March release of "More Bad Habits."  ...