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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, and emerged in the early 1950s.The term rockabilly is a portmanteau of rock (from rock 'n' roll) and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music (often called hillbilly music in the 1940s and 1950s) that contributed strongly to the style's development. Other important influences on rockabilly include western swing, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues. While there are notable exceptions, its origins lie primarily in the Southern United States. ... Read more

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Chapters: Western, Country Music, Weird West, Colt Single Action Army, Northern, Golden Boot Awards, Six Reasons Why, Singing Cowboy, Westerns on Television, Space Western, Western Fiction, List of Western Fiction Authors, Science Fiction Western, Great Western Arms Company, Tombstone's Main Event: a Tragedy at the O.k. Corral, Owen Wister Award, Raymond S. Spears, Dime Western, Golden Age of the Western, Colt Frontier Six-Shooter, Justus D. Barnes, Golden Spur. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 141. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: High in US, Australia and CanadaMedium in United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand Low in Asia, Africa, Latin America and mainland Europe.Country music (or country and Western) is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, gospel music and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s. Country music has produced two of the top selling solo artists of all time. Elvis Presley, who was known early on as the Hillbilly Cat and was a regular on the radio program Louisiana Hayride, went on to become a defining figure in the emergence of rock and roll. Contemporary musician Garth Brooks, with 128 million albums sold, is the top-domestic-selling solo U.S. artist in U.S. history. While album sales of most musical genres have declined since about 2000, country music experienced one of its best years in 2006, when, during the first six months, U.S. sales of country albums increased by 17.7 percent to 36 million. Moreover, country music listening nationwide has remained steady for almost a decade, reaching 77.3 million adults every week, according to the radio-ratings agency Arbitron, Inc. The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s when ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5247 ... Read more

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555 Songs with music, lyics and chord symbols. ... Read more

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Piano/vocals/chords. "Arkansas Traveler," "Big Rock Candy Mountain," "Blue-tail Fly," "Boll Weevil Song," "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (The Dying Cowboy)," "Careless Love," "Cowboy's Lament," "Dixie," "Down in the Valley," "Give Me That Old-time Religion," "Good-bye, Old Paint," "Home on the Range," "I Wish I Was Single Again," "John Henry," "Lonesome Cowboy," "Midnight Special," "Mule Skinner Blues," "Oh, My Darling Clementine," "Oh! Susanna," "Old Chisholm Trail," "Poor Wayfarin' Stranger," "Rock Island Line," "'Round Her Neck She Wears A Yellow Ribbon," "Roving Gambler," "Streets of Laredo," "Sweet Betsy from Pike," "Wabash Cannonball," "Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Dogies!" "Wildwood Flower," "Wreck of the Old 97" ... Read more