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River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music: It All Equals Rockabilly, Part One River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music: It All Equals Rockabilly, Part One by Matt Chaney Now available on Amazon The Book American music rang out a century ago in raw landscape, flooding delta bottoms of the Lower Mississippi Valley with jazz, blues, gospel and “hillbilly” songs. Here were generations of American song and dance, performers in time from the Louisiana Purchase through World War Two. Musical artists male and female, young and old, multi-ethnic, preceded and shaped Elvis Presley and many like him, culminating in the rockabilly breakout of 1954-55. This book is that backstory in the upper delta—southeast Missouri, northeast Arkansas, southern Illinois, western Kentucky and western Tennessee—five-state region cut by waterways, resounding with music. A synergy drove delta songs from the flatboats onward, inspired of rivers and peoples, sparking native styles, producing pure American melodies. Here are some selected excerpts posted on Delta Boogie. River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music - Beale Street River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music - Country Blues River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music - Dance Swing Versus Baseball River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music - Hillbilly Plus Blues River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music - Jazz Piano River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music - Jazzers River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music - Swing Beat

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