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Not Just an American Tradition

 

Rockabilly is a musical genre tracing its roots to 50’s music and today having stylistic similarities to the likes of Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.  Rockabilly music is a blend of blues, hillbilly, bluegrass, and country, with a rock twist.  Though the origin bears a distinct southern flavor and obviously has its roots in North America, rockabilly has spread worldwide.  This can be seen through rockabilly magazines.

A search on the internet will turn up followers of the rockabilly style in almost every country on the planet, but several countries actually produce their own rockabilly magazines, updating fans of news and keeping them abreast of the latest stars to rise to popularity.  One such rockabilly magazine is Big Beat, produced in Finland.  It seems that many northern Europeans find pleasure in the simple, heavy beat of rockabilly and the rhythms drawn from 1950’s style blues.
  

European rockabilly magazine  The classic rockabilly magazine

 

Another foreign rockabilly magazine is a German language magazine called Dynamite.  Again, northern Europe shows their support for the musical genre, this time with a language widely used in the region.  Of course, there are also several traditional American rockabilly magazines still produced to keep the crowd pleased and up to date.  One such magazine is Grindstone, produced out of Studio City, California.

The influence of rockabilly magazines helps to keep the style of dress and music alive today, as the rockabilly movement is no longer considered mainstream.  This precursor to modern rock and roll saw an early death when Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens were killed in a plane crash in 1959.  However, with artists of the 1980’s like the Stray Cats and those of today such as The Meteors, rockabilly magazines have plenty of material to keep this tradition from reaching another early demise.  Rockabilly magazines are sure to continue pleasing the rockabilly crowd with new and different trend followers for a long time to come.

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