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New box set explores Virginia’s role in Rockabilly
    New box set explores Virginia’s role in Rockabilly

    By David Maurer
    Media General News Service
    Published: July 22, 2009

    In the early 1950s the pounding, driving wheels of a new kind of music came highballing up out of the South like a past-due locomotive.

    Called rock ’n’ roll, it had the transformative power to alter one’s musical sensibilities with a single song. But rock had an older twin with a flipped-up-collar attitude and a good-natured sneer.

    This first-born rebel was called rockabilly. Its blistering, slap-back beat set primal nerve endings aquiver that most teenagers hadn’t known…

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