Article: Rockabilly's Deke Dickerson leaves retro in his rear mirror

pgartner@wvgazette.com

Double-neck guitar picker Deke Dickerson - who spent the Thanksgiving holiday on the road with his band, the Ecco-Fonics - has a bone to pick with folks who don't understand where he's coming from. Musically, that is.

"There are so many really terrible rockabilly bands [who present] a total cartoon, moron image," Dickerson said, over the phone - his dime - 60 miles outside El Paso, Texas.

"The strangest thing I've seen written about us was, we were called 'an intelligent rockabilly band' - an oxymoron. I have such a great respect for the music. I'm not trying to be a retro act. That's just the way I try to play it."

Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics will be coming to ...

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