First daily musician post

In honor of the fact that yet again The Cramps came to town and I forgot to buy tickets, even though I love them, the kick-off female musician to highlight today is Poision Ivy, the guitarist and founding member of The Cramps. I totally forgot they were coming until we got downtown last night and heard them playing an encore at Stubb's and sounding great, of course.

The Cramps are probably the first and definitely the best psychobilly band. For those who don't know, psychobilly is punked up and often spaced out rockabilly music. For most of the country, the sound never really took off. However, down in Texas, we fucking love psychobilly. You have The Cramps to blame for Texas bands like The Reverend Horton Heat and The Flametrick Subs. Pretty much all psychobilly guitarists will imitate Poison Ivy's spaced out playing on one level or another, but very few can really reach the levels of just pure weirdness that she reaches.