CARL PERKINS WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' LP CL1234
$
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CL1234
THIS IS THE ONE YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR!
IT IS A ROCKIN' ALBUM AND PLAYS VERY WELL!
THE FOLDER IS IN GREAT SHAPE (NO SPLITS)
THE VINYL IS ALSO IN VG+++ SHAPE!
Carl Lee Perkins, 9 April 1932, Ridgely, Tennessee, USA (his birth certificate misspelled the last name as Perkings), d. 19 January 1998, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Carl Perkins was one of the most renowned rockabilly artists recording for Sun Records in the 50s and the author of the classic song "Blue Suede Shoes". As a guitarist, he influenced many of the next generation of rock 'n' rollers, most prominently, George Harrison and Dave Edmunds. His parents, Fonie "Buck" and Louise Brantley Perkins, were sharecroppers during the Depression and the family was thus very poor. As a child Perkins listened to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio, exposing him to C&W (or hillbilly) music, and he listened to the blues being sung by a black sharecropper named John Westbrook across the field from where he worked. After World War II the Perkins family relocated to Bemis, Tennessee, where he and his brothers picked cotton; by that time his father was unable to work due to a lung infection. Having taught himself rudimentary guitar from listening to such players as Butterball Page and Arthur Smith, Perkins bought an electric guitar and learned to play it more competently. In 1953 Carl, his brothers Jay (rhythm guitar) and Clayton (upright bass), and drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland formed a band that worked up a repertoire of hillbilly songs performing at local honky tonks, primarily in the Jackson, Tennessee area, where Carl settled with his wife Valda Crider in 1954. His borrowing of some techniques from the black musicians he had studied set Perkins apart from the many other country guitarists in that region at that time; his style of playing lead guitar fills around his own vocals was similar to that used in the blues. Encouraged by his wife, and by hearing a record by Elvis Presley on the radio, Perkins decided in 1954 to pursue a musical career.
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