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By Robert Fontenot, About.com Guide to Oldies Music since 2002

The Oldies Encyclopedia: Country Boogie

Wednesday November 12, 2008
It bridged the gap between Western Swing and rockabilly, brought the electric guitar to national prominence, and directly inspired rock and roll. So why don't more music fans know about the brief but very influential phenomenon known at first as "hillbilly boogie"? Read (and hear) more about this genre here in my latest oldies encyclopedia entry.

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