Of course, one can always go old school and play both swing and straight 8. Rockabilly has many examples but this is my favorite as it slips between the two, sometimes with both playing simultaneously. That's James Burton as a teenager on guitar—still alive and making music 65 years later.

Susie Q. Dale Hawkins 1957

Rules? What rules? We don't need no stinking rules!



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