The Movie Filter by Jeff Roedel – He’s a real ‘Nowhere Boy’

It is hard to imagine a time when rock music was just another one of the styles elbowing for attention from the pop culture mainstream. In the mid-1950s, jazz and show tunes and Sinatra pop were top-sellers, while a wild combination of boogie-woogie blues, country and gospel was, largely, the underground sound of the South, particularly that of American Americans living in urban centers. Then came Elvis Presley, and the genre exploded. More…