Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys + Barrence Whitfield and the Savages + The Piggies

If you want to be able to tell the men from the boys when it comes to rockabilly, check out Big Sandy: You'll never go back to amateurs and pretenders. Deftly varying the moods with a Western-swing number here, some doo-wop there, this SoCal combo is pure class. Ace support comes from Barrence Whitfield—whose real name is Barry White, no joke—who brought the R&B stylings of Little Richard to Boston in the ’80s.