Rumble & Twang at City Winery

Rumble & Twang is an all-star rockabilly band comprised of guitarist/pianist Jimmy Vivino (music director of Conan O'Brien's television house band), bassist Lee Rocker (formerly of the Stray Cats) and drummer Anton Fig (from David Letterman's television house band), along with any variety of other notables, like Robert Gordon. Gordon was not among the notables tonight at City Winery, but the core trio of Rumble & Twang invited rockabilly guitarist Buzz Campbell and blues harmonica player Felix Cabrera on stage for most of the set. All of these seasoned musicians played extraordinarily well, and Vivino and Rocker alternated vocals on covers of songs originally recorded by the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis and many other pioneers of country rock. Did the band play any new songs? If there were any new songs, they sounded like old songs.