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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…
