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ockabilly bass is alive, well and thriving in the hands of Lee Rocker, Stray Cats bassist and solo artist for the last four decades and counting. After 11 studio albums with the veteran trio and even more of his own, he’s the most successful player of Fifties-indebted rock bass currently performing, but that doesn’t mean he takes anything for granted: his new album, Gather Round, was recorded in novel circumstances, as he tells us.