As portmanteaus go, "rockabilly" is definitely my favorite, followed closely by "brunch." Mm . brunch. There's something about the rock and hillbilly mashup that speaks.
Deke Dickerson charts the birth of Rock & Roll music as we know it to the early 1950s, and a little seaside resort town called Wildwood, New Jersey. Long before Elvis stepped inside Sun Studio, Dickerson says it was a criminally underrated musical act called the Treniers who created Rock & Roll. Read on to see how the mix of rhythm & blues, jazz, swing, showbiz savvy, hillbilly, and country, all came together in a rowdy Jersey Shore resort town to create a music revolution.