Editing Psychobilly (section)

===Origins in the United States===
[[File:The-Cramps.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[The Cramps]] are progenitors of psychobilly.]]
{{Quote box |quote=The Cramps weren't thinking of this weird subgenre when we coined the term "psychobilly" in 1976 to describe what we were doing. To us all the '50s rockabillies were psycho to begin with; it just came with the turf as a given, like a crazed, sped-up hillbilly boogie version of country.

We hadn't meant playing everything superloud at superheavy hardcore punk tempos with a whole style and look, which is what "psychobilly" came to mean later in the '80s. We also used the term "rockabilly voodoo" on our early flyers. |source=—[[Poison Ivy (musician)|Poison Ivy Rorschach]]<ref name="Spitz 174">{{cite book |last1=Spitz |first1=Marc |author-link1=Marc Spitz |last2=Mullen |first2=Brendan |author-link2=Brendan Mullen |title=We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXyCHYk3C90C&q=we+got+the+neutron+bom |access-date=May 8, 2010 |edition=1st |year=2001 |publisher=[[Three Rivers Press]] |location=[[New York City]] |isbn=0-609-80774-9 |pages=34–35}}</ref>|align=right |salign=right |width=30%}}
In the mid- to late 1970s, as [[punk rock]] became popular, several [[rockabilly]] and [[garage rock]] bands appeared who would influence the development of psychobilly.<ref name="Downey, 77"/> The term "psychobilly" was first used in the lyrics to the [[country music|country]] song "[[One Piece at a Time]]", written by [[Wayne Kemp]] for [[Johnny Cash]], which was a Top 10 hit in the United States in 1976. The lyrics describe the construction of a "psychobilly [[Cadillac (automobile)|Cadillac]] using stolen auto parts."<ref name="Downey, 78">Downey, p.78.</ref>

The Cramps, who formed in [[Sacramento, California]], in 1972 and relocated to [[New York City|New York]] in 1975 where they became part of the city's thriving punk movement, appropriated the term from the Cash song and described their music as "psychobilly" and "rockabilly voodoo" on [[flyer (pamphlet)|flyers]] advertising their concerts.<ref name="Downey, 78"/> The Cramps have since rejected the idea of being a part of a psychobilly subculture, noting that "We weren't even describing the music when we put 'psychobilly' on our old fliers; we were just using [[carny]] terms to drum up business. It wasn't meant as a style of music."<ref name="Downey, 78"/> Nevertheless, The Cramps, along with artists such as [[Screamin' Jay Hawkins]], are important precursors to psychobilly.<ref name="Downey, 77"/><ref name="Downey, 78"/> The Cramps' music was heavily informed by the sound and attitude of 1950s American rockabilly, including [[Hasil Adkins]], whose song "She Said" they covered on 1984's compilation album ''[[Bad Music for Bad People]]'',<ref>{{cite web |last=Raggett |first=Ned |title=Bad Music for Bad People - The Cramps |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/bad-music-for-bad-people-mw0000651702 |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=January 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Cramps {{!}} Similar Artists, Influenced By, Followers |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-cramps-mn0000137580/related |website=AllMusic |access-date=January 27, 2014}}</ref> along with other songs from the [[Sun Records]] catalog. Their 1979 album ''[[Songs the Lord Taught Us]]'' is influential to the formation of the psychobilly genre.<ref name="Downey, 80">Downey, p.80.</ref>
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